Bad guy, unfair caricature or curiosity? Jury still out on Nick Kyrgios back in Australia
Nick Kyrgios acknowledges the crowd after victory over Brandon Nakashima to move into the Wimbledon quarter-finals.Nick Kyrgios acknowledges the crowd after victory over Brandon Nakashima to move into the Wimbledon quarter-finals.Nick Kyrgios
Another third laments he is treated unfairly by the public and the media, citing racial undertones in coverage and a tendency to turn him into a caricature. For most of the rest he is a curiosity. A precociously talented, inherently flawed individual who offers tennis fans brilliant tennis and non-tennis fans a reason to watch. A player who does not have a coach and keeps fit with a local Sydney basketball group but does, at the minute, appear to care very much about his singles tennis career.
That same year he was anointed as “St Nick” for his moral leadership during the coronavirus pandemic .
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