Nick Kyrgios has said repeatedly over the past week that he's growing and maturing as a player - and with a possible re-match against Rafael Nadal looming, a look back at their past match proves that. WWOS
"I just want to continue to do the right things, physically, professionally," he told reporters.
It seems like a lifetime ago that a teenage wildcard produced one of the great upsets of modern tennis, as a 19-year-old Kyrgios knocked off Nadal in 2014 - which remains his best finish at The Championships. Rafael Nadal shakes hands with a teenage Nick Kyrgios after the latter's shock win at Wimbledon in 2014.
Nadal got his revenge five years' later, winning in four sets after taking two consecutive tiebreaks in the third and fourth - and it's a match that, with hindsight, Kyrgios admits he didn't prepare adequately for."My agent had to come get me out of a pub at 4am before I played my match on Centre Court.Nadal would make it one win apiece at The Championships five years later.
"To sit here, quarter-finals of Wimbledon, and feeling good, feeling composed, feeling mature and having that around me, I'm extremely blessed, and I feel like I'm just comfortable in my own skin."
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