Nicholas Hilmy “Nick” Kyrgios Australian tennis player considered one of the players with the greatest projection in the world. In 2014 he reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals, defeating Rafael Nadal in the round of 16. He reached the top 50 of the ranking at the age of nineteen.
Bibiographical synthesis
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios was born on April 27, 1995 in Canberra. Her father, George, is part Greek and her mother, Norlaila, is Malaysian. He has a brother named Christos who is a lawyer and a sister, Halimah, who is dedicated to acting.
Trajectory
At the age of fifteen, he won his first junior singles title, on the island of Fiji. Starting in 2011 he began to play regularly on the youth circuit, winning numerous titles. In January 2013 he won the Australian Open youth title, after defeating his compatriot Thanasi Kokkinakis in the final 7-6 and 6-3.3 In 2012 he made his professional debut in the 2012 Australian Open qualifying, Kyrgios concentrated on tournaments juveniles. In 2013 he decided to make the leap to professionalism, reaching the semifinals at the Adelaide Challenger and obtaining the Sydney Challenger, after beating Matt Reid in the final. In the first round at Roland Garros, he defeated Radek Stepanek by a triple 7-6.
In 2014, on December 30, the Australian retired before the first round match of the Brisbane Tournament against Matthew Ebden due to a shoulder injury. He then had a good showing at the Australian Open, defeating German Benjamin Becker in the first round and losing in the second round to Benoît Paire in five sets after winning the first two.
In the 2014 Davis Cup, he lost his two matches against the French Richard Gasquet and Gaël Monfils . He then went on a very profitable tour of the United States, as he won two ATP Challenger titles . He defeated Serbian Filip Krajinović 7-6, 6-4 in the final of the 2014 Sarasota Challenger and a week later he defeated the second seed of the 2014 Savannah Challenger , Jack Sock , 2-6, 7-6, 6-4 .
Kyrgios capped the two-week turf tour against Australian Samuel Groth in the 2014 Aegon Nottingham Challenge final . After the triumph, he was invited to play the 2014 Wimbledon Championship, where he obtained the following results:
- He beat Stephane Robert in the first round 7-6, 7-6, 6-7 and 6-2.
- He then defeated No. 13 ranked Richard Gasquet 3-6, 6-7, 6-4, 7-5 and 10-8, in a game where he saved nine match points.
- In the third round he defeated another wild card, the Czech Jiří Veselý , 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2. In the round of 16, he defeated world number one Rafael Nadal 7-6, 5-7, 7-6 and 6-3. In the quarterfinals, he lost to Canadian Milos Raonic 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 and 7-6.
In 2015 Kyrgios defeated Andreas Seppi in the round of 16 of the 2015 Australian Open , after which he lost in the quarterfinals to Andy Murray . On May 6, 2015 Nick Kyrgios had an important victory by defeating Roger Federer 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5) and 7-6 (12) in the Master of Madrid, although he was later eliminated in the 3rd round by John Isner 3-6, 7-6 (7), 4-6.
In 2016 he began the season in the 2016 Hopman Cup paired with his compatriot Daria Gavrílova, finishing first in the group stage after beating the United Kingdom, France and Germany. They go to the final and face Ukraine led by Aleksandr Dolgopolov and Elina Svitolina . Kyrgios and Gavrilova would win their singles against Dolgopolov and Svitolina and the mixed doubles and Australia would be the champion of this edition.
He played the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open where he managed to beat Pablo Carreño in 1 round in straight sets by partials of 6-2, 7-5, 6-2, in 2 rounds against Pablo Cuevas 6-4 , 7-5, 7-6 (7-2) to lose in 3 rounds against Czech Tomáš Berdych in 4 sets by sets of 3-6, 4-6, 6-1, 4-6.
In February, he would play the ATP 250 in Marseille and he managed to become champion without giving up a single set in the tournament and thus add the first title of his career. He would beat Vasek Pospisil and Teimuraz Gabashvili in 1 round and 2 rounds respectively by the same result, a double 6-4. In the quarterfinals he beat French local player Richard Gasquet 6-0 6-4, in the semifinals Tomáš Berdych 6-4 6-2 and in the final against Croatian Marin Čilić 6-2, 7-6 (7- 3)
