Nick Kyrgios has been confirmed to play his first Grand Slam since 2022 at next month's Australian Open

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Purestriker said:
Without having to go through qaulies? Weak.
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He must be getting a wildcard?

Or did he get his Protected Ranking reinstated somehow? I wonder if anyone will explain it, or if everyone just assumes Nick should be directly into the main draw, so they'll just stay quiet.
 
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MichaelNadal said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1864939861385318681
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Keeps repeating how much money he earned to define his success. Why does this fit so well?

Excellent point by the original twitter user. Despite all the presumed talent and one of the greatest serve of the last two decades he was not able to crack the top 10. It was not the lack of effort, discipline, planning, character and so forth so he has to find a new way to cope.
 
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"I have an 8 figure career. Grand slam finalist and beaten all of the greatest of all time. Doesn’t seem bad to me. No drugs either"
based on his talent, maybe reached 40% of his potential?
 
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Woah. I mean, like, woah. This is giving me strong Jordan vibes. We will remember this day.

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big ted said:
"I have an 8 figure career. Grand slam finalist and beaten all of the greatest of all time. Doesn’t seem bad to me. No drugs either"
based on his talent, maybe reached 40% of his potential?
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So he was almost as successful as Casper Ruud, Tsitsipas, Zverev, Berrettini, etc. (except they made it into the top 10).
 
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big ted said:
"I have an 8 figure career. Grand slam finalist and beaten all of the greatest of all time. Doesn’t seem bad to me. No drugs either"
based on his talent, maybe reached 40% of his potential?
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Sinner may finish his career with 10 figure net worth. Just for comparison.
 
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Rovesciarete said:
Keeps repeating how much money he earned to define his success. Why does this fit so well?

Excellent point by the original twitter user. Despite all the presumed talent and one of the greatest serve of the last two decades he was not able to crack the top 10. It was not the lack of effort, discipline, planning, character and so forth so he has to find a new way to cope.
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It's not a good point at all. He's not unsuccessful at all.

The vast majority of people would love to have to have that amount of failure.
 
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BauerAlmeida said:
It's not a good point at all. He's not unsuccessful at all.

The vast majority of people would love to have to have that amount of failure.
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The vast majority of people don’t look like the next greatest thing in that global sport of tennis. I would like to remind you how he burst into scene:

He has a narrow waist and strong shoulders, a greyhound’s look, and a greyhound’s air of languid indifference. Kyrgios, a twenty-two-year-old Australian, is the only active player ever to defeat Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic in their first meetings; he has beaten Nadal and Djokovic twice, in fact, and came within a few points of a second victory over Federer earlier this year. “I think Nick is the most talented player since Roger jumped on the scene,” Paul Annacone, a former coach of Federer and Pete Sampras, has said. Kyrgios is also the most mercurial. Jon Wertheim, the executive editor of Sports Illustrated, once called him “tennis’ id.”
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There is no doubt that he wasted most by lack of a long list of important things.

Kyrgios won ten matches in slams before he won two in regular events. Off the main stage, he began to struggle with the demands of the tour. At the moment when most top players build up an entourage of coaches, physiotherapists, and trainers, Kyrgios split with one coach and then another, and struck out on his own. “Every coach I had tried to tame me, tried to make me play more disciplined, tried to make me do drills,” he told me. “All through my career, there were people trying to tell me to play a more normal style of tennis.” But, he went on, “I’ve just been kind of playing on instinct. I feel like it’s been successful, so I don’t know why there’s a good reason to stop that.”
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Nick is a great example to invert from as a young player. Compare that kind of talk and walk to Nadal or Sinneraz.
 
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Many might have over-estimated his potential, because he has always had lazy footwork. Whenever I watch matches at my club with coaches, that is the main thing that stands out for the coaches - he has the worst footwork of any top 50 pro. That is why he never had a chance to make it to the top 10 because he never put in the work to fix it and fired any coaches who asked him to do so. The game has become faster due to the increased pace of serves/shots and the players with the best movement/footwork make it to the top. You are going to be inconsistent if you move well only on the days you are extra-pumped from facing a famous rival which is why he has had a few famous scalps, but no sustained success.
 
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socallefty said:
Many might have over-estimated his potential, because he has always had lazy footwork. Whenever I watch matches at my club with coaches, that is the main thing that stands out for the coaches - he has the worst footwork of any top 50 pro. That is why he never had a chance to make it to the top 10 because he never put in the work to fix it and fired any coaches who asked him to do so. The game has become faster due to the increased pace of serves/shots and the players with the best movement/footwork make it to the top. You are going to be inconsistent if you move well only on the days you are extra-pumped from facing a famous rival which is why he has had a few famous scalps, but no sustained success.
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Great post. From my own experience as a reasonably amateur player, i still hit the ball as well as ever, and in fact overall have more shots now and court craft than in my youth. However in my youth my footspeed was my huge asset which has now totally gone which means if i have to move to the ball to the corners i'll either not get there or when i do not be able to do anything with it. At the pro level the exact same problem applies to Kyrgios which is why he has never been a top player and just a journeyman pro one level up from Jeremy Bates and Andrew Castle for example.
 
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aldeayeah said:
His victories against Fedal were mostly decent, but his bullying of 2017 Elbowvic should have a fairly big asterisk.
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kyrgios only beat fedr once thank God or we'd never hear the end of it
thats also why im glad he hasnt won a GS ... talk about a gloater :rolleyes:
 
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aldeayeah said:
His victories against Fedal were mostly decent, but his bullying of 2017 Elbowvic should have a fairly big asterisk.
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Do you remember the Acapulco match versus Rafa? Quite possibly the angriest I have ever seen Rafa get on the court.

It’s a lot of fun to rewatch even as a Rafa fan just trying to figure out how Nick manage to steal/save those match points :-D
 
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