"US Open is my favourite Slam, the food court is insane" - Kyrgios

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Nick Kyrgios leaves Sam Querrey shocked after explaining what he doesn't like about Wimbledon

That won't go down well!
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“Dude, I am sorry but Wimbledon as an event is not even that good,” he said.

“US Open is my favourite,” he said.

“I love the venue, the food court is insane, I love that.

“Wimbledon is insane, I just don’t like the – I don’t know – I just prefer the US Open. “It’s so simple, locker room, go upstairs, food.
“Wimbledon, just not a fan of it man.”
Querrey thought he knew why Kyrgios wasn’t the biggest fan of Wimbledon, which Kyrgios agreed with.

“Wimbledon is pretty stuffy, Nick [Kyrgios] is like anti-stuffy,” he said.

“Maybe that’s it, culturally you don’t mix with Wimbledon.”

“No, I don’t,” said Kyrgios.

“I just feel weird there."


“Why are you looking at the screen like this Jack [Sock]?

“Okay, can we just say French Open is the worst.”
 
I can understand his feelings here. I even feel like my private dentist place is quite ''stuffy.'' They do great work though, so it's all good. But yeah, I've a habit of not fitting in.
 
US Open and Aus Open are like very high-end, exciting and impressive 'normal' tennis tournaments. With lots of trendy food-stalls, like a 5* hotel or mall in Dubai. French Open and Wimbledon are like cultural events where you feel a sense of history and place that puts the rest of life into perspective. The latter two might seem stuffy at first, but when you relax and see how well they are centered on the tennis (and not just selling stuff), you will realise you've made the right choice in visiting.
 
weakera said:
They get excited for strawberries and runny cream lol :censored:
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And eat beans and blood sausage for breakfast

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vokazu said:
Lol how would you greet the King or the Queen? Howdy dude, s'up?
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Lol...the King or the Queen are rarely if ever there. The only royal who likes tennis and turns up is Princess Kate who is the current president of the All England Club and therefore obliged to anyway. .

That said I agree the royal box business is a load of stuffy old nonsense and it is high time it was done away with.
 
I take it Nick won't be coming back to commentate at Wimbledon then? He will be sorely missed ie.............not!
 
The Royal Family parcels out its sporting duties to the various royals and Kate is personally fond of tennis so she got that job.

The Royal Box at Wimbledon is essential to how a private concern like Wimbledon functions and operates. It is no mere ornament.

Mainad said:
Lol...the King or the Queen are rarely if ever there. The only royal who likes tennis and turns up is Princess Kate who is the current president of the All England Club and therefore obliged to anyway. .

That said I agree the royal box business is a load of stuffy old nonsense and it is high time it was done away with.
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Bartelby said:
The Royal Family parcels out its sporting duties to the various royals and Kate is personally fond of tennis so she got that job.

The Royal Box at Wimbledon is essential to how a private concern like Wimbledon functions and operates. It is no mere ornament.
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In what way is it essential to the running of the tournament?
 
Mainad said:
Lol...the King or the Queen are rarely if ever there. The only royal who likes tennis and turns up is Princess Kate who is the current president of the All England Club and therefore obliged to anyway. .

That said I agree the royal box business is a load of stuffy old nonsense and it is high time it was done away with.
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That would be a downfall of the monarchy type move by the AELTC.
 
MichaelNadal said:
British stuff is weird lol I wouldn’t like the Wimbledon environment either
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A lot of Britain has very different culture from the Wimbledon bubble. It's about as different as Upstate New York and New York City.

New York State as a whole actually resembles Britain quite a bit, with New York City as Greater London, Wall Street as the City of London, Upstate New York as the deindustrialized and rural areas of Britain, and the fact that New York State used to be the most populous state in the US (known as the Empire State) while the British Empire was the empire where the sun never set. Both have been deindustrialized while the finance sector gets fat and absurd property bubbles grow. The British home counties (i.e. near London) is similar to Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island.
 
Mustard said:
A lot of Britain has very different culture from the Wimbledon bubble. It's about as different as Upstate New York and New York City.

New York State as a whole actually resembles Britain quite a bit, with New York City as Greater London, Wall Street as the City of London, Upstate New York as the deindustrialized and rural areas of Britain, and the fact that New York State used to be the most populous state in the US (known as the Empire State) while the British Empire was the empire where the sun never set. Both have been deindustrialized while the finance sector gets fat and absurd property bubbles grow. The British home counties (i.e. near London) is similar to Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island.
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Please, you are forgetting Fairfield County.
 
optic yellow said:
I mean like that is still NYC.
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It's about 50-60 miles away. A lot of the NYC rich live in Fairfield County to get less state income tax, and to avoid the NYC local tax as well.

Britain doesn't have "a Singapore on the Thames" yet, thankfully. The British establishment is possibly even more corrupt than the US establishment, being many centuries older and therefore rooted in a semi-feudal mysticism.
 
Mainad said:
Lol...the King or the Queen are rarely if ever there. The only royal who likes tennis and turns up is Princess Kate who is the current president of the All England Club and therefore obliged to anyway. .

That said I agree the royal box business is a load of stuffy old nonsense and it is high time it was done away with.
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Elizabeth II didn't like tennis. She only attended Wimbledon in 1957, 1962, 1977 and 2010.

It's time the entire royal nonsense was done away with, not just at Wimbledon, but in society in general.
 
Mustard said:
It's about 50-60 miles away. A lot of the NYC rich live in Fairfield County to get less state income tax, and to avoid the NYC local tax as well.

Britain doesn't have "a Singapore on the Thames" yet, thankfully. The British establishment is possibly even more corrupt than the US establishment, being many centuries older and therefore rooted in a semi-feudal mysticism.
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Oh I never knew the tax element I thought they just lived there so they didn't have to live in the city.
 
optic yellow said:
Oh I never knew the tax element I thought they just lived there so they didn't have to live in the city.
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For the richest people who actually live in New York City, they have to pay state income tax on different parts of their income from 4% up to 10.9%, and on top of that they have to pay a separate local NYC income tax on different parts of their income from 3.078% up to 3.876%.

For the richest people who live in Connecticut, they have to pay state income tax on different parts of their income from 2% up to 6.99%, so a lot less tax than being in New York City or even than being elsewhere in New York State. That's the main reason as to why a lot of the Wall Street rich have their home address in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Decades ago, the tax advantages of living in Connecticut were much more favourable still.

In Britain, there's no area near Greater London, but outside Greater London, that has a lower income tax rate. They have to shift wealth offshore to tax havens like the Virgin Islands.
 
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Mustard said:
For the richest people who actually live in New York City, they have to pay state income tax on different parts of their income from 4% up to 10.9%, and on top of that they have to pay a separate local NYC income tax on different parts of their income from 3.078% up to 3.876%.

For the richest people who live in Connecticut, they have to pay state income tax on different parts of their income from 2% up to 6.99%, so a lot less tax than being in New York City or even than being elsewhere in New York State. That's the main reason as to why a lot of the Wall Street rich have their home address in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Decades ago, the tax advantages of living in Connecticut were much more favourable still.

In Britain, there's no area near Greater London, but outside Greater London, that has a lower income tax rate. They have to shift wealth offshore to tax havens like the Virgin Islands.
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Channel Islands and IoM are closer opportunities.
 
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