Former British No. 1 Greg Rusedski noted that Nick Kyrgios has more to show than he did during his second-round match in Cincinnati against Taylor Fritz. On Wednesday, Kyrgios left Cincinnati after losing 6-3, 6-2 to Fritz. Kyrgios has played a lot of tennis this summer and Rusedski suggests that he is concerned that the Aussie is mentally and physically fatigued.
“Yes it was triggered,” Rusedski said on Amazon Prime, according to Tennis365. “You can hear the boos around the stadium. They don’t feel like he gave his best out there and we hope the knee isn’t too bad but he has to show more.
He has improved but physically he has to get stronger. He is worried about the knee physically. It’s much easier to do it on the grass courts than on the hard ones.” After winning in Washington and his first three matches in Montreal, Kyrgios was defeated by Hubert Hurkacz in the Montreal quarterfinals.
After the nine match win streak came to an end, Kyrgios said that he was not at all worried about his winning streak coming to an end. Kyrgios’ mother is in poor health and the Wimbledon finalist plans to return to Australia after the US Open and spend some time with his family.
After leaving Montreal, Kyrgios admitted that being away from his sick mother is taking a toll on him. “I have been away for almost three months and I have been away from home, away from my mother who is in the hospital, away from my father.”
Marion Bartoli on Nick Kyrgios
French former professional tennis player Marion Bartoli finds Nick Kyrgios to be an extremely flamboyant player. “That Kyrgios is a kicker, a player who feels the excitement of big games, a player who isn’t afraid to take on the big guys, that’s obvious,” she said, adding, “For me he will always be an extremely flamboyant player, who will have the ability in a match to get them all, except [Rafael] Nadal on clay and a few [other] exceptions.
But becoming a cador on the circuit by being present every week is not Nick Kyrgios’ trademark. To manage to be a cador of the circuit, it is necessary to hold all the year. Already on clay, he doesn’t want to hear about it because for him it’s not a tennis surface. So already you take three months off the season including a Grand Slam tournament,” she stated.
