Nick Kyrgios underrated backhand

[Tennisdude561]

As I watch Nick's first round match against the Italian Matteo Berrettini in the first round of the Stuttgart 250, I'm more and more impressed with Kyrgios' backhand. Its so simple it looks like a push but the placement and underpin/sidespin that he can generate is nasty, especially on the grass. Its defiantly not his main weapon, forehand, but it seems no one talks about it. My personal opinion. PS in the third game he hits a underarm serve and volley, which leads to a effortless tweener and wins the point.

 

[Atennisone]

Here we go again.

Kyrgios is incredible when he wants to be, he has beaten both Djokovic, Federer, Nadal when they were very good, and is absolutely dangerous in terms of winning any GS title, but he prefers Basketball.

Kyrgios can only win 2 GS as I see it, either he is gonna win WB because it seems he prefers grass, or he wins AO because it is in his home country, and playing with crowd support is something he likes.

Still Kyrgios is not underrated.

 

[Nostradamus]

Nick stinks. he lost today

 

[Jonesy]

It's time for him to prove his worth and beat Djokovic at Wimbledon then lose to Fed in the final.

 

[RNadal]

Yet he cannot beat the almighty italian on the grass courts which real tennis are played on.

 

[Purplemonster]

As I watch Nick's first round match against the Italian Matteo Berrettini in the first round of the Stuttgart 250, I'm more and more impressed with Kyrgios' backhand. Its so simple it looks like a push but the placement and underpin/sidespin that he can generate is nasty, especially on the grass. Its defiantly not his main weapon, forehand, but it seems no one talks about it. My personal opinion. PS in the third game he hits a underarm serve and volley, which leads to a effortless tweener and wins the point.

Yeah Kyrgios has a great serve, forehand, trick shots and newly discovered backhand. He has all those great shots to thank for all his major and masters titles.

 

[Purplemonster]

Yet he cannot beat the almighty italian on the grass courts which real tennis are played on.

The Italian grew up on the revered grass courts of the Eternal City whilst the all conquering Kyrgios learned his craft on the countless clay courts of Australia’s capital city.

 

[Tennisdude561]

Nick stinks. he lost today

I'm speaking about a specific shot, he stinks because he lost today? in a match where he maybe tried 10%?

 

[Tennisdude561]

Here we go again.

Kyrgios is incredible when he wants to be, he has beaten both Djokovic, Federer, Nadal when they were very good, and is absolutely dangerous in terms of winning any GS title, but he prefers Basketball.

Kyrgios can only win 2 GS as I see it, either he is gonna win WB because it seems he prefers grass, or he wins AO because it is in his home country, and playing with crowd support is something he likes.

Still Kyrgios is not underrated.

he still is though, when you watch him play its unbelievable. yes he can't always bring his A game to the job, but when he does watch out

 

[EloQuent]

Kyrgios would need to win 35 slams to be underrated.

 

[Nostradamus]

I'm speaking about a specific shot, he stinks because he lost today? in a match where he maybe tried 10%?

why would he only try 10 % ?? LOL. he signed up for tournament to just tank it in 1st round ?? makes no sense

 

[Justin Side]

Nothing about Kyrgios is underrated. For the last few years, he's consistently been the most overrated player on tour. He hasn't been past the 4th round at a major in almost 4 1/2 years.

 

[Subway Tennis]

Nothing about Kyrgios is underrated. For the last few years, he's consistently been the most overrated player on tour. He hasn't been past the 4th round at a major in 4 1/2 years.

I think his best level is absurdly high, but we so rarely see it. He is definitely way overrated for what his output is on the tour. I hope that changes at some stage.

 

[Backspin1183]

Here we go again.

Kyrgios is incredible when he wants to be, he has beaten both Djokovic, Federer, Nadal when they were very good, and is absolutely dangerous in terms of winning any GS title, but he prefers Basketball.

Kyrgios can only win 2 GS as I see it, either he is gonna win WB because it seems he prefers grass, or he wins AO because it is in his home country, and playing with crowd support is something he likes.

Still Kyrgios is not underrated.

Kyrgios winning a Grand Slam title?

 

[Tennisdude561]

why would he only try 10 % ?? LOL. he signed up for tournament to just tank it in 1st round ?? makes no sense

do you give 100% at work every day? anyone that has can throw the first stone

 

[Tennisdude561]

Yeah Kyrgios has a great serve, forehand, trick shots and newly discovered backhand. He has all those great shots to thank for all his major and masters titles.

he has just as many slams as Zverev so... why aren't you ripping him? I said he has a good backhand not that he's going to break Roger's 20......

 

[Tennisdude561]

Nothing about Kyrgios is underrated. For the last few years, he's consistently been the most overrated player on tour. He hasn't been past the 4th round at a major in almost 4 1/2 years.

lol hes 23 give him time

 

[tacou]

I'm speaking about a specific shot, he stinks because he lost today? in a match where he maybe tried 10%?

not many users are capable of such discussion

 

[Red Rick]

I think his best level is absurdly high, but we so rarely see it. He is definitely way overrated for what his output is on the tour. I hope that changes at some stage.

His best level is servebot and play tiebreaks against top players and lose if god forbid you lose a tiebreak

 

[Justin Side]

lol hes 23 give him time

He's 24. He also hasn't made even a single major QF since he was 19. It's been a little bit.

 

[Purplemonster]

he has just as many slams as Zverev so... why aren't you ripping him? I said he has a good backhand not that he's going to break Roger's 20......

Zverev has won 3 masters titles, read my post again.

 

[merwy]

Underspin? You mean slice? On a double handed topspin backhand? Ok

 

[Jonesy]

If kyrgios was playing seriously he would stop using western grip on the forehand and use a one handed backhand.

 

[toby55555]

do you give 100% at work every day? anyone that has can throw the first stone

Don’t have a choice in target based jobs. Nick only needs to do enough to keep a ranking that gets automatic entry to valuable tournaments which seems to be about as much as he cares. He is what he is and I used to love watching him but have got tired of his lack of focus.

 

[Subway Tennis]

His best level is servebot and play tiebreaks against top players and lose if god forbid you lose a tiebreak

I think that's a good assessment of it. Even in his best matches when he showed a lot of mental resilience, he was very serve-reliant. I'm a fan of that sort of thing in certain players (I'm a Sampras tragic lol)

 

[accidental]

Kyrgios is far from under rated.

He’s the most grossly over rated player of all time.

His backhand is bad even for a guy with his ranking. It would be the worst backhand of anyone ranked 30-40 right now which is his ranking bracket.

 

[The Safinator]

Yeah Kyrgios has a great serve, forehand, trick shots and newly discovered backhand. He has all those great shots to thank for all his major and masters titles.

Newly discovered? His backhand is not new. It has always been the more solid side for him.

 

[King No1e]

Kyrgios backhand reminds me of Roddick, but he does have more control on it.