Wimbledon: Nick Kyrgios after shot at Nadal - "wanted to hit him directly on the chest"
The match between Nick Kyrgios and Rafael Nadal kept everything it had promised. There was a personal low blow afterwards.
by Florian Goosmann from Wimbledon
last edit: Jul 05, 2019, 06:39 am
According to Forrest Gump, press conferences with Nick Kyrgios are like a box of chocolates: you never know what you'll get. Reflected answers alternate with insults, sometimes to the same question. Kyrgios answers some statements with seemingly deadly seriousness, in the end to say: "Just a joke." He just leaves others like that. That Kyrgios hates going to the press - that's why he makes no secret anyway.
That was the case even after the match against Nadal. Insults ("You have to have a pretty boring life"), reprimands ("That was two questions in a row. Wait until you get to it"), lack of understanding ("What do you want from me?") Or sarcastic comments ("I love them Media, you are so nice to me, you are the best ") took turns with deliberate answers - like the self-assessment after Nadal claimed that Kyrgios could be a future Grand Slam champ. "I know what I'm capable of. I'm a great tennis player, but I don't do the other stuff, I'm not the most professional guy, I don't train day in and day out."
He recognized a reporter from the evening before ("You were in the pub yesterday!"), And answered the other question, whether Nadal had taken too much time between the points (which Kyrgios had complained about several times during the match) with a dry one: "No, he was super fast."
Kyrgios has no regrets about the attempt to launch
To be serious again in the next moment. What he admires most about Nadal? "His ability to play every point. He doesn't make any. We are like complete opposites: I find it so difficult to play every point according to a certain routine, to have the same patterns. And his 1-2 punch, the first Serve and the forehand afterwards - this is probably the best 1-2 punch in the world, apart from maybe Federer. The fact that he is able to do that every day is special. And it is not easy. "
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However, there was a violent low blow. Kyrgios had twice tried to shoot Nadal, who was on the net, and on the second attempt, Nadal struggled to get the bat between the ball and body - and shot Kyrgios, who refrained from making an apology, a deadly look.
"Why should I have apologized?" Kyrgios admitted even after the match.
- "It's common now."
- "Where?"
- "In tennis."
- "Is it?"
- "When you hit someone with the ball."
- "I didn't hit him. That was his racket. Why should I apologize? I won the point."
- "He didn't seem pleased."
- "Yes and?"
- "Apparently you excited him."
- "I don't care. Why should I apologize? The guy won so many slams and how much money does he have in the bank? I think he can handle a ball on his chest, buddy. I will never stand up for that to apologize."
- "Did you aim directly at him?"
- "Yes, directly on him. I wanted to hit him full on the chest. But he has quick hands."
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Keyword chocolates: No, you never really know what you get from Nick Kyrgios, what is said seriously and what is not.
It is a pity: he actually seems to have meant the last sentence seriously.
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