Nick Kyrgios just does not want it bad enough. It’s like he wants to be seen as cool and not over exert and lay it all on the line. Rios had that quality of wanting to play casual instead of getting down and dirty and brawling it out. For all his natural talent and weapons it’s hard to say if Kyrgios will ever become a junkyard dog warrior instead of a diva showman preferring to look cool. The kids love Kyrgios as we saw last night they just go nuts for him like no other player I’ve ever seen ever. But Nick does not know how to feed off his fans and interact with them during the match. Nick is wasting this valuable energy source by not taking advantage of it while it’s practically begging to help him. But Nick is great with the kids after practice how he talks and jokes with them. It’s perplexing how Nick is so aloof and detached from his fans on the court. Surely the Aussies and Hewitt are trying to tell Nick how he has to be and how he has to fight harder on the court but being a natural rebel Nick is stubborn and insistent on doing it his way and he just won’t listen. How long will it take for the light to go on in Nick’s head? The bulb is definitely OUT right now and it’s arguable if Nick will ever wake up. Nick should take a trip out to Las Vegas and have a week of talks and discussions with Andre and Steffi ASAP. Andre may be the only person who could snap Nick out of his silliness and save his career from wasting away.
Aussie Nick crushed by loss to Seppi
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« Previous 1 2catherine bell · January 21, 2017 at 3:26 am
Andrew –
We really don’t know about Graf v Seles ultimately because Seles didn’t stay around long enough.
And I think a coach or someone like Steffi can help a player although they don’t have similar games. She certainly seems to have helped Angie and this may have been mentally as well. Anyway something clicked Kerber’s gears into place.
(she won’t win AO though – I’d still bet on that)
Kvivitova has a habit of breaking people – she did it to Simona in Wuhan. Maybe that’s what she’s there for 🙂
Scoop – other top women players have done two on ones – it’s not a new thing. Margaret Court practised mainly with men and that was in the 60s. She also lifted weights 🙂
Now if Margaret had had mental coaching (she was notably fragile at big moments) how many GS would she have won ?