If Nick Kyrgios is suddenly the sensible one ...
Nick Kyrgios is scheduled to serve in an exhibition fight in Berlin from July 13th. Until then, the Australian keeps fit in his home country. And it also convinces from time to time on social media.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Jun 23, 2020, 06:45 pm
The request from Nick Kyrgios via Twitter was not entirely free of an end in itself: the man from Canberra wanted to know whether Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev would also be checked after Grigor Dimitrov's positive test. After all, Kyrgios is to play a short exhibition fight tournament with Thiem and Zverev in Berlin from July 13th.
The answer to this is a fourfold "yes". Even if in unequal parts: After his return from Belgrade, Thiem was first tested in Vienna, then after his trip to the Ultimate Tennis Showdown in Nice, and tested again in Vienna on Monday. three times with negative result. Zverev had been examined in Croatia on Sunday evening, and the Hamburg native also gave the all-clear on Monday.
But that didn't apply to Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki. After Coric left the home quarantine publicly tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Kyrgios set a fine needle stitch on Twitter. And before it became known that organizers Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki were not spared either.
Goran Ivanisevic, a member of the Novak Djokovic coaching team, also got his fat off.
And all of this a few days after Greg Rusedski, a former top ten player and now a TV expert, said that the players were entrepreneurs - and everyone had to weigh up for themselves whether a possible return was reasonable in relation to the risk of infection would stand. In this context, Nick Kyrgios proved to be a true master of tennis history - and subtly thought of the time when Rusedski was found to have illegal substances in 2004.
Nick Kyrgios did not lose the joke during the long Corona break. It will be interesting to see if he will show it in Berlin within a few weeks.