Mates rates: Kyrgios beats fatigue, best friend, to kick-start US Open | Stuart Miller
The main event Monday at the US Open was the star-studded Serena Williams lovefest with a tennis match thrown in for good measure. While Nick Kyrgios couldn’t match that extravaganza, he did put on quite a show in his first-round win over longtime pal and doubles partner Thanasi Kokkinakis.
Kyrgios remained even-tempered, even placid throughout, except for some minor contretemps over a lacklustre ball person. That was especially impressive because, as he noted afterwards, he is “exhausted” from being on the road, adding that most players on the tour don’t understand the toll sustained travel takes on Australians. “I’ve been away for four months, there have been babies born in my family and my mom’s sick and my dad’s not well,” he said.
Kyrgios closed out the first set in half an hour, then started the second set with a beautifully placed backhand winner down the line for a winner. Kokkinakis crumbled then, sandwiching two bad forehand errors around a double fault and Kyrgios consolidated that service break with two aces and a delicate drop shot to make it 2-0.
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