After his most successful year on tour, there’s a feeling the Canberra wild child has finally matured enough to win an Australian Open
here have been many times in his career when attempting to get a read on Nick Kyrgios has been like taking on Rafael Nadal on clay; a task almost inevitably destined to end in failure. But something has changed in the past 12 months, a year in which he reached his first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon. Kyrgios goes into this year’sAll players mature at different rates, on and off the court, and Kyrgios would probably admit that he has taken longer than most.
Wimbledon taught Kyrgios a lot, he said, in particular about how to deal with pressure. “I think it just kind of showed me how stressful getting to a slam final is, dealing with the outside noise, media commitments, balancing on-court, off-court recovery,” he said. “These guys that have won multiple Grand Slams, they’re just animals, not only physically, but mentally.
At his most dangerous when no one is expecting too much from him, Kyrgios will now have to deal with the fact that people expect to see him at the business end of slams. He seems ready, even if he admits it’s a balancing act.
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