Q: Finally, before we let you go, you talked to your family. I will just take that and prepare for my next match. Could have easily been him standing here. Got lucky on a couple of points here and there. He is obviously feeling very confident - hell of a tournament for him to make the quarter-finals. What pleased you most about how you controlled things out here today?Ī: Honestly, I thought I was playing on the back foot a lot. Q: Nick, that was an incredibly measured, controlled performance, straight sets. To reach a semi-final of a Grand Slam, I’m pretty happy. I have been playing this sports since I was seven. I feel like no-one knows my tennis better than I do.
But each and every one of my team plays a very important role. I would never put that burden on someone. That might be an idea, a wrong idea, that these days these occasions don’t matter to you, but it matters to you a lot, doesn’t it?Ī: Definitely. Q: That is an interesting point, Nick because you do things your own way because you don’t have a permanent coach. Obviously, I didn’t go about things great earlier in my career and I may have wasted that little window but really proud of the way I have just come back out here with my team and been able to put on a performance. I just never thought I would be at a semi-final of a Grand Slam. How good does that feel?Ī: An amazing atmosphere out here again. It feels like it has been such a long time coming, but you are through to the semi-finals of a Grand Slam and here at Wimbledon.
Kyrgios and Fritz have never played against each other. They previously played on grass in 2014 at Wimbledon, and Kyrgios won an upset win there in four sets, in the round of 16 to reach the quarter-finals. Nadal last played Kyrgios on grass at Wimbledon in 2019, knocking him out in the round of 64. Head-to-head, he’s won three and lost six to Nadal. He will face the winner of Taylor Fritz and Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals. He also reached the semi-finals at Stuttgart, losing to Andy Murray. He withdrew from Mallorca due to injury, but at Halle, he won three matches and lost the fourth in a semi-final. He’s now won five matches at Wimbledon to reach the semi-finals. He loves playing on grass, he said so himself two months ago, declaring himself the best in the world.Īsked who he felt was the best player in the world heading into Wimbledon, Kyrgios, then ranked 78th in the world, said: “I mean, on the grass, I’d say me.” Nick Kyrgios plays a backhand against Cristian Garin of Chile.
0 kommentar(er)
