Nick Kyrgios With all due respect, he doesn’t have that much respect for previous tennis generations.
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last edited: December 12, 2023, 10:59 p.m
Nick Kyrgios is Novak Djokovic’s number one fan on the ATP tour
Considering that Nick Kyrgios has been out of action for months and will also be missing from the Australian Open in early 2024, the Australian is showing a pretty solid presence on the fringes of the tennis scene. Most recently as an expert for the Tennis Channel at the ATP Finals in Turin, Kyrgios has now explained himself in an interview with the portal The Athletic. And in doing so, we made the difficult generational comparison, as is always the case.
“The game was so slow back then,” said Kyrgios. “I saw Boris Becker and I’m not saying they weren’t good in their time. But to say that they are equally good today is absurd. A strong impact at that time was 197 to 200 km/h. People like me, we consistently serve at 220. In the corners. This is a whole other level.”
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Djokovic would do it like Hewitt
Kyrgios does not rule out the possibility that the big players from Becker’s time would not have found a way to be at the top in 2023.
“But serve and volley – if you were to do that permanently today, you would have to serve at 220. Because if it’s less than 200 km/h, brother, then Djokovic will eat you. Lleyton Hewitt once destroyed Pete Sampras at the US Open. That was like a prototype of someone who could return a serve.”
And further: “And what would Djokovic do with someone like Sampras? It would be a debacle. If Hewitt did it, then Djokovic would destroy him. He would eat Sampras.”
2023-12-13 07:05:00
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