US Open: Boris Becker - Too much talk about Nick Kyrgios
Eurosport experts Boris Becker and Mats Wilander gave an audience to a small group of journalists in the middle of the week.
by Jens Huiber
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Aug 30, 2019, 05:16 pm
By Jens Huiber from New York City
Eleven Grand Slam titles had been on the couch in the Eurosport studio, divided between Boris Becker, Mats Wilander - and Barbara Schett. The Tyrolean tennis goddess had not claimed anyone, Becker, the old charmer, accepted Schett into the circle of major champions. Eurosport had loaded, the TV station from the Discovery network has been bringing the pictures of the Australian, French and US Open to tennis fans for years.
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With Becker and Wilander as experts who not only want to fill this role well and gladly, but also do not want to change in any way. Especially not in a coaching job. Wilander had tried several players (the week-long episode with Madison Keys left deep traces even years later in the great Sweden), Becker was successful with Novak Djokovic.
Mats Wilander thinks a lot about Jannik Sinner
Journalists from different European countries were invited to the talk, the questions did not lack a certain local color: for the Czech delegation Wilander and Becker were allowed to go to Tomas Berdych ("best player who never won a major") and Karolina Pliskova ("must." develop opportunities for Grand Slams and then grab them ”) comment.
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For Italy, the legend Ubaldo Scanagatta took a stand, his questions naturally also went to coaching. Well, if Mats Wilander chose an Italian player for whom he would actually sit on the coaching bench, it would be either Jannik Sinner or Matteo Berrettini. According to Wilander, Fabio Fognini would appreciate very much, but basically he was the Italian number one for the tennis worker, but he was untraining. Because Fognini works as an artist.
Nick Kyrgios will be judged by victories
And with that to Nick Kyrgios. Exceptionally, Boris Becker and Mats Wilander did not agree on that. The Swede did not want to overstate the incidents in Cincinnati. There Kyrgios had afforded a few dropouts in the match against Karen Khachanov, which should have led to disqualification, said Wilander. After all, it seems that Kyrgios has decided that match wins are important to him.
In general, however, Becker suggested a little reluctance to deal with Kyrgio's personnel. "At the moment too much is being made of Kyrgios or said about him," said the three-time Wimbledon champion. “I can honestly only take him seriously when he starts to play in semi-finals and finals of Grand Slam tournaments. That being said, he's a very loud, emotional, sometimes incredibly good tennis player. But in the end there is no discussion of the penalties he has received. It's about how much he won. "
