Nick Kyrgios returns to Atlanta: the beginning of everything

Nick Kyrgios is back. After losing the Wimbledon final to Novak Djokovic in five sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and 7-6 (3), staying close to winning his first Grand Slam, he returns to participate in another tournament, in this case the ATP 250 in Atlantaof which he has very fond memories.

The number 47 in the world reappears again in the tournament that saw him born as a tennis player and which he won in 2016, Atlanta. When he barely had a record of four Challengers and a Future, it was in 2016 that he became known. After losing the final of the ATP 250 in Estoril a year earlier, a year later he chained three wins in a row, one of 500 and two of 250. He also finished 13th in the ATP ranking, ahead of Roger Federer, Roberto Bautista or John Isner himself.

The Atlanta tournament will always be remembered for the Australian tennis player, it was there when after Marseille (indoor), he won his second ATP 250 trophy, also breaking the streak of John Isner, who had won this trophy three years in a row and was the first non-American player to win the trophy since 2010.

That year in Atlanta he faced Jared Donaldson (7-6 and 6-3) in the second round, Fernando Verdasco (6-4, 6-7 and 6-3) in the quarterfinals, and Yoshihito Nishioka (6-3, 3-6 and 6-3) and in the final John Isner (7-6 and 7-6). He showed a high level throughout the tournament, although in a statement on the ATP website he said that “In Marseille I was good, this week was different, I wasn’t playing well at all since the beginning of the week and although I found my balance today, I competed and had fun,” said the Australian.

He had fun as he himself knows. It was here when he began to show himself to the world and this was one of the great tournaments that the Next Gen tennis player played at the beginning of his career. and who returns this morning from July 26 to 27 to play, he faces the German, Peter Gojowczyk, at 02:20 Spanish time. Some of the participants of the ATP 250 Atlanta 2022: