Nick Kyrgios now has a different opinion on the Big 3. The Australian seems to have drawn the necessary motivation from the brilliant run of the Championships to approach tennis with passion, with which he has always had a rather troubled relationship over the years.
A small spark probably jumped over at the beginning of the year with the Grand Slam triumph at the Australian Open alongside compatriot Thanasi Kokkinakis, but after Wimbledon we see a significantly changed and more relaxed Nick Kyrgios.
His run at the All England Club also allowed the 27-year-old from Canberra to reevaluate the performances of the three holy monsters Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, as he himself revealed in a direct Instagram post for the tournament’s official page in Washington admitted at the start in a few days: “To win a Grand Slam you have to be a mental animal.
I think I have a lot more respect for Novak, Federer or Nadal now. When I faced Nole in the final, I felt like he was fresh, like he hadn’t played tennis in the past two weeks, he never got nervous.
The doubles at the Australian Open with Thanasi, even if it was at the beginning of the year, gave me a lot of confidence and helped me mentally.”
Kyrgios on the Wimbledon final
It was a candid Nick Kyrgios who gave former Indian tennis player Prakash Amritraj the interview at the ATP 500 in Washington, a tournament where the Australian triumphed in the final against Daniil Medvedev in 2019.
Among other things, Nick spoke about the emotions he felt for the Wimbledon final, the first and so far only at a Grand Slam. “It was crazy. When the final was over, I didn’t even realize it.
It wasn’t until a week later that I really realized I’d reached a Grand Slam final, at Wimbledon and against Novak Djokovic. In a way it’s sad but it was a great experience” It may sound strange but Kyrgios admitted that if he had beaten Djokovic he would have struggled to find the right motivation going forward: “If I’m on my Looking back on my career, I think most people, myself included, would say that I had no chance of reaching a Grand Slam final.
I talked about it with my team: If I had won Wimbledon, it would have been difficult for me to motivate myself immediately afterwards. I have nothing to prove to anyone. It’s exciting, I look back and I’m full of confidence thanks to everything that’s happened.”
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