NICK KYRGIOS sees Tennis as a job would rather play basketball...SHOULD HE RETIRE THIS YEAR? 2024?

Connors109

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BEST raw talent overall in the game at 6'4" (not a servbot) best first and second serves on tour echoed by Novak Djokovic himself. Nick is currently hosting an interview TV show . I had to get coffee to stay awake and watch it. I thought at one point the LA Lakers were Nick's tennis clothes sponsors wearing almost exclusively basketball clothes on the tennis court. Mind you I love watching Nick Kyrgios play tennis. Nick sells TENNIS TICKETS and ratings. Problem is NICK implies he was pushed into a tennis career and would rather play basketball. Clearly his heart is NOT into winning Wimbledon or a Slam or even being NO#1 in the world . Nick wants to be on a court but sadly its NOT THE ONE he excels at . The basketball court is his love. Kyrgios on court antics are reminiscent of Illie Nastase in the 1970's another pure talent possessing all the magical strokes but having issues on court between his ears. Nasty did a manage to win a slam or two however never the Wimbledon he wanted to win. Threatening that if he ever did win Wimbledon he would throw all his racquets in the Thames river ,give the stuffed shirts at the All England club the middle finger and retire. Perhaps Kyrgios could be tempted as such.
 
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InsuranceMan

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Connors109 said:
BEST raw talent overall in the game at 6'4" (not a servbot) best first and second serves on tour echoed by Novak Djokovic himself. Nick is currently hosting an interview TV show . I had to get coffee to stay awake and watch it. I thought at one point the LA Lakers were Nick's tennis clothes sponsors wearing almost exclusively basketball clothes on the tennis court. Mind you I love watching Nick Kyrgios play tennis. Nick sells TENNIS TICKETS and ratings. Problem is NICK implies he was pushed into a tennis career and would rather play basketball. Clearly his heart is NOT into winning Wimbledon or a Slam or even being NO#1 in the world . Nick wants to be on a court but sadly its NOT THE ONE he excels at . The basketball court is his love. Kyrgios on court antics are reminiscent of Illie Nastase in the 1970's another pure talent possessing all the magical strokes but having issues on court between his ears. Nasty did a manage to win a slam or two however never the Wimbledon he wanted to win. Threatening that if he ever did win Wimbledon he would throw all his racquets in the Thames river ,give the stuffed shirts at the All England club the middle finger and retire. Perhaps Kyrgios could be tempted as such.
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He SHOULD retire THIS YEAR I guess if he FEELS like it, because it’s HIS choice and I don’t know OR care how he REALLY feels so IMPOSSIBLE to speculate
 
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big ted

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im starting to believe he really does hate tennis. if its any consolation most people hate what they do for a living.
 
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ALCARAZWON

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Kyrgios was never athletic enough to play basketball, with his little chicken legs and constant injuries.
He'd never be allowed on a court, because he can't shoot, and he can't play defense.
And he's not tall enough to be anything other than a guard (which requires foot speed that he doesn't have, or shooting ability which he doesn't have).
C-grade club player, and that's why he had to play tennis, its his only talent.
 
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coacho

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He is a big baby. He complains, pouts, and gives up when he isn’t winning and sometimes when he is winning. One hundred great shots does not make up for his demeanor on court. Not even sure he has had 100 great shots in his whole career. My favorite players talk with their racquets!
 
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austintennis2005

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When he came to Houston his practice sessions and matches were absolutely mobbed, while the so called “good boy no personality like Mackenzie nobody could care less to see.
 
Tshooter

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Connors109 said:
BEST raw talent overall in the game at 6'4" (not a servbot) best first and second serves on tour echoed by Novak Djokovic himself. Nick is currently hosting an interview TV show . I had to get coffee to stay awake and watch it. I thought at one point the LA Lakers were Nick's tennis clothes sponsors wearing almost exclusively basketball clothes on the tennis court. Mind you I love watching Nick Kyrgios play tennis. Nick sells TENNIS TICKETS and ratings. Problem is NICK implies he was pushed into a tennis career and would rather play basketball. Clearly his heart is NOT into winning Wimbledon or a Slam or even being NO#1 in the world . Nick wants to be on a court but sadly its NOT THE ONE he excels at . The basketball court is his love. Kyrgios on court antics are reminiscent of Illie Nastase in the 1970's another pure talent possessing all the magical strokes but having issues on court between his ears. Nasty did a manage to win a slam or two however never the Wimbledon he wanted to win. Threatening that if he ever did win Wimbledon he would throw all his racquets in the Thames river ,give the stuffed shirts at the All England club the middle finger and retire. Perhaps Kyrgios could be tempted as such.
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It’s a complete joke to compare Nastase — a great talent and great player who had a great career and the first player to reach #1 when the ATP established its new ranking system — with a serve-bot clown like Kyrgios, a mediocre talent that fluked one good win, over Vamos at W, long ago.
 
Crocodile

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Meniscus repair plus clean up of cyst, wrist injury and probably some lower back pain with his gait and posture is probably enough pain and discomfort to give things a rest. It’s not like he has to continue with the money he now has.
In fact he could just organise 1 match a year against Novak and he will make a couple of mill there easy.
I also think it could be something like this - if he thinks he can win Wimbledon I think he would give it a go because I know he would like win that tournament and have that as his legacy, but with all the young guys coming up he may feel that, time has come and gone. For him to be at his best, which he needs to be if he wants to Wimbledon would require a lot of effort,
 
Fabresque

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The most overvalued, overhyped, and overestimated tennis player ever.

He is talented. So are many others. He ain’t special, Alcaraz and Sinner proved that. He has many issues in his game and his mentality has always reeked.

I’m partly upset he even made the Wimbledon final in 2022. It made him and a bunch of other fans believe he was of slam-winning ilk. Kevin Anderson made 2 finals, Ruud has made 3, are these players “slam winning talents”? The reality is, like the other 2, Nick was fortunate enough for his end of the draw to fall apart and his biggest test in the SF had to pull out due to an injury. Imagine if Garin beat Kyrgios and somehow made the Wimbledon final? Would we be talking about him as a potential slam champion? Nope.

Let’s just all collectively stop talking about Kyrgios and all this retirement malarkey and his “love of basketball”. Let him do what he wants.
 
Rosstour

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NeutralFan said:
Great video, son! Some people confuse his great touch with talent that's required in modern game. He doesn't have a great FH, great BH, great movement and overall ground game to win slams in modern baseline era.
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He reached a Wimbledon final, and put on one of the best serving performances ever. If his opponent was anyone else, he'd have the trophy.

I was a huge fan of his, but this whole thing he's doing is very cringe and more than a little sad.
 
MichaelNadal

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Rosstour said:
He reached a Wimbledon final, and put on one of the best serving performances ever. If his opponent was anyone else, he'd have the trophy.

I was a huge fan of his, but this whole thing he's doing is very cringe and more than a little sad.
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AND he won the first set against Novak. People don't have to like him but he's good. Just didn't take his chances and was beaten by better players in a lot of big moments.
 
NeutralFan

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Rosstour said:
He reached a Wimbledon final, and put on one of the best serving performances ever. If his opponent was anyone else, he'd have the trophy.

I was a huge fan of his, but this whole thing he's doing is very cringe and more than a little sad.
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He reached final due to his serve and he was taken to 5 sets against many mugs lol and that too against a depleted field.

Again I am asking a simple question, tell me what's his weapon apart from serve?

His FH is garbage

His BH is average

His movement is below average.

Shot tolerance? Don't get me started

So how this so much talented player is gonna win slams in the baseline era?
 
Rosstour

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NeutralFan said:
He reached final due to his serve and he was taken to 5 sets against many mugs lol and that too against a depleted field.

Again I am asking a simple question, tell me what's his weapon apart from serve?

His FH is garbage

His BH is average

His movement is below average.

Shot tolerance? Don't get me started

So how this so much talented player is gonna win slams in the baseline era?
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Funny you're just saying he sucks and expecting us to believe that, but he made the Final and would have beaten anyone else. That means he had the game to win a Slam. He came just as close to winning a Slam as Ruud or Tpas ever have
 
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ChrisJR3264

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I mean the nuggets 2X MVP Jokic sees basketball as a job. And yet ppl still love him.

I’m no Kyrgios fan bc of his personality. But Idc that he sees this as a job. Sometimes the circle around you makes you lose interest in something.
 
socallefty

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Mainad said:
But if you're good at it, why hate it?
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Here are some examples from my profession (international business) on why I don’t like it anymore even though I am very successful at it.
  • It involves many international trips a year that I don’t want to do anymore because it is physically getting to be too much and I no longer want to spend so much time away from my family/friends.
  • I used to enjoy inter-acting with people in different countries, but when you are visiting a country for the 60th or 70th time, you are pretty jaded and you start feeling the stress of constanty adapting to different environments/cultures.
  • You are constantly being held accountable for financial objectives every quarter and every year - no one remembers the successes of the past and it is always about ’What have you done for me lately?’ Every unexpected adverse result has to be explained ad nauseum.
  • I‘ve been doing the same thing for 30 years.
  • You realize over time that what you are doing is just making money for some companies and their investors. Sometimes, some good comes out of the products you sell, but it gets harder and harder to think of that connection when you are constantly badgered with scorecards.
It is not that different from why a tennis player might not like their life - a lot of travel, travel to the same places over and over again, constantly having to produce results on a scoreboard repetitively, playing tennis since being a young kid for more than 20 years, you are just providing entertainment etc. In addition, their job unlike mine involves manual labor in the sun in a sport that causes a lot of over-use injuries and ages you prematurely making you prone to arthritis, skin cancer etc. I am sure a lot of older players don’t like all the stresses and grind of the tour especially if they are not at the very top and keep doing it only for the money or because it is all they know how to do.

Jobs you loved a lot and are good at can become a grind after 20/30/40 years especially if it is physically demanding as that is tougher to cope with when you age. At the same time it is hard to walk away if you are making a good living from it and it is not so easy to make career changes at an advanced age. Kyrgios is obviously checking out the option of a career as a tennis commentator, but I suspect he won’t like the travel for that also. His niche is likely to be as a reality TV host/star on Australian TV.
 
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DSH

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Connors109 said:
BEST raw talent overall in the game at 6'4" (not a servbot) best first and second serves on tour echoed by Novak Djokovic himself. Nick is currently hosting an interview TV show . I had to get coffee to stay awake and watch it. I thought at one point the LA Lakers were Nick's tennis clothes sponsors wearing almost exclusively basketball clothes on the tennis court. Mind you I love watching Nick Kyrgios play tennis. Nick sells TENNIS TICKETS and ratings. Problem is NICK implies he was pushed into a tennis career and would rather play basketball. Clearly his heart is NOT into winning Wimbledon or a Slam or even being NO#1 in the world . Nick wants to be on a court but sadly its NOT THE ONE he excels at . The basketball court is his love. Kyrgios on court antics are reminiscent of Illie Nastase in the 1970's another pure talent possessing all the magical strokes but having issues on court between his ears. Nasty did a manage to win a slam or two however never the Wimbledon he wanted to win. Threatening that if he ever did win Wimbledon he would throw all his racquets in the Thames river ,give the stuffed shirts at the All England club the middle finger and retire. Perhaps Kyrgios could be tempted as such.
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The Nick Kyrgios Show.
He will be much better accepted as a behind-the-scenes commentator and interviewer than as a tormented and misunderstood tennis player.
:D
 
CHillTennis

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Fabresque said:
The most overvalued, overhyped, and overestimated tennis player ever.

He is talented. So are many others. He ain’t special, Alcaraz and Sinner proved that. He has many issues in his game and his mentality has always reeked.

I’m partly upset he even made the Wimbledon final in 2022. It made him and a bunch of other fans believe he was of slam-winning ilk. Kevin Anderson made 2 finals, Ruud has made 3, are these players “slam winning talents”? The reality is, like the other 2, Nick was fortunate enough for his end of the draw to fall apart and his biggest test in the SF had to pull out due to an injury. Imagine if Garin beat Kyrgios and somehow made the Wimbledon final? Would we be talking about him as a potential slam champion? Nope.

Let’s just all collectively stop talking about Kyrgios and all this retirement malarkey and his “love of basketball”. Let him do what he wants.
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I couldn't have said it better myself.

Lame Horse Nick is just an overrated has-been.
 
CHillTennis

CHillTennis

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Rosstour said:
He reached a Wimbledon final, and put on one of the best serving performances ever. If his opponent was anyone else, he'd have the trophy.

I was a huge fan of his, but this whole thing he's doing is very cringe and more than a little sad.
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Actually, if Nadal had been fit enough to play he would have beaten Nick in the semis.

It looks to me like Wimbledon rigged that draw so that he would have a good run. He still...just barely managed to get the job done.

Jubb, Nakashima, and Garin. If I didn't know better, I would say this was a 250. Not a grand slam.
 
Rosstour

Rosstour

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CHillTennis said:
Actually, if Nadal had been fit enough to play he would have beaten Nick in the semis.
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Obviously Rafa didn't agree and gave Nick a walkover

Kyrgios is a bad matchup for Rafa anywhere outside clay and especially on grass. Nadal knew he was gonna get smoked IMO. I don't blame him at all for withdrawing
 
CHillTennis

CHillTennis

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Rosstour said:
Obviously Rafa didn't agree and gave Nick a walkover

Kyrgios is a bad matchup for Rafa anywhere outside clay and especially on grass. Nadal knew he was gonna get smoked IMO. I don't blame him at all for withdrawing
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That's not what happened in 2019.

Nadal also beat Nick in Miami, earlier that year.
 
Rosstour

Rosstour

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CHillTennis said:
That's not what happened in 2019.

Nadal also beat Nick in Miami, earlier that year.
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You know Nadal man. He's a psycho competitor, probably the mentally toughest player ever. And, if you believe him and his team, he can/will/frequently does play big tournament matches even while nursing injuries that nearly cripple him.

Being hurt doesn't stop this guy. If that was Garin he would have played and I think we all know that deep down.
 
CHillTennis

CHillTennis

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Rosstour said:
You know Nadal man. He's a psycho competitor, probably the mentally toughest player ever. And, if you believe him and his team, he can/will/frequently does play big tournament matches even while nursing injuries that nearly cripple him.

Being hurt doesn't stop this guy. If that was Garin he would have played and I think we all know that deep down.
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Nadal was in better form than Djokovic at that event.

Let's not forget that Djokovic had recently lost to Nadal at Roland Garros. And he was taken to five sets by Sinner in the quarter-finals.

If Novak was able to beat Nick in four sets, Nadal would have managed to do the same.
 
Rosstour

Rosstour

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CHillTennis said:
Nadal was in better form than Djokovic at that event.

Let's not forget that Djokovic had recently lost to Nadal at Roland Garros. And he was taken to five sets by Sinner in the quarter-finals.

If Novak was able to beat Nick in four sets, Nadal would have managed to do the same.
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C'mon bro what are you saying. It's Nadal on grass. Not his best surface and probably his worst. Against a player whose game is completely ideal for the surface, who was totally redlining and had beaten Rafa before, including at Wimbledon

If it would have been easy then Nadal would have played. He didn't play bc he didn't like his chances. If Nick is that much of a mug and really didn't have the game, Nadal would have played.
 
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