Sorry for the somewhat premature thread but, as a Canberra born, I'm excited about Kyrgios.
Born: 27 Apr 1995
Birth place: Canberra, Australia
Plays: Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Probably his biggest achievement to date came in doubles. He won (boys) Roland Garros and Wimbledon with Andrew Harris this year. His singles results have been coming along too, he recently won Canada (Grade 1) and made the quarters of Wimbledon and the US Open. Men's tour experience and results have been limited, but his showings have been respectable.
Already top 5 in juniors, he'll be one of the favourites for this year's u18 national championships and next year's junior Australian Open.
Nice win. Plays Klahn next who beat Mitchell 7-6(6) 6-4.
Kyrgios lost to Klahn 6-3 6-2 in Australian Open qualifying earlier this year and now Klahn has the home country advantage. Obviously Kyrgios's results have improved out of sight since then, but Klahn has been playing great since July (3 Challenger finals including a title, plus a main draw win at the US Open).
Kyrgios receives a warning after getting broken in his first service for skying a ball. In the next game he bounces a racquet off the court but doesn't receive a code violation.
He really seems to be a bit of a hothead
His elbow seems to be bothering him, hope he doesn't have to skip Stockholm.
Yeah, that's not new - nick is a vocal emotional player.
He is also a crazy competitor who will never stop fighting. He also has a pretty decent tiebreak record. Nick through to the semis beating klahn 76(5) 26 7-6(4)
Nick shellacked by Tim Smyczek, going down 36 16.
Nick was 1-3 down first set, got the break back to get to 34, then DF'd at 30-40 to give back the break. Then only won 1 game out of 8 games to lose the match.
Nicks elbow was giving him a lot of grief again. That should have been pretty obvious if you guys looked at the stats... No aces and only like 50 percent of points won on the first serve. He said he was struggling to even roll the second serve in without pain. May be skipping tiburon and Stockholm because of it - I'll keep you updated
Yeah just from overplaying, because he is still growing - growth plates haven't fused so when under a lot of stress he gets inflammation and pain. I guess from US straight into training with the davis cup team and then davis cup may have worn him out a little. But he will be fine, just got to give it a little time to rest up.
He'll go the whole year without playing a single ATP event (only Grand Slams and Davis Cup). But the main thing is that he's better, rested and ready for the Australian summer.
Kyrgios is the only player (besides his opponent, Mott) still stuck in round one. If he were to win this title, he would have to win 5 matches in 4 days, including 2 tomorrow.
Nick shows the pressure of playing against lower ranked, free-hitting contemporaries and goes down, not without a fight, to Blake Mott (ATP820) with a 36 75 scoreline.
Or is he still injured ?
Kyrgios served at a low 53%, only winning 33% (5 of 15) 1st serves in the 1st set and dropped serve 4 times. The second set was better 88%, winning 63% but dropped serve twice.
Nick shows the pressure of playing against lower ranked, free-hitting contemporaries and goes down, not without a fight, to Blake Mott 46 57.
Or is he still injured ?
Wouldn't say injured but definitely restricted. So much taping on his elbow, his serve is pretty much non-existent atm.
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