“We’re so excited. Last time we came 10 years ago we saw Andy Murray, and he was just boring. I know we’re supposed to like him because he’s British but Kyrgios is a real entertainer.”
Margaret and Kathleen caught the train down from Armadale, about half-way between Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, to finally make the trip to the tennis they’d promised themselves before it was scuppered by the pandemic.
The history, tradition and predictability at the home of tennis was staid, no longer appealing, they said. And the excitement Kyrgios had brought to their TV screens made them interested in tennis again.Laura Woods, a presenter on talkSPORT Breakfast, took on her male colleagues on Monday, declaring that Kyrgios was indeed good for tennis.
Kyrgios spits towards fans after winning match point against Britain’s Paul Jubb, who threatened to knock off the Aussie power-hitter in an upset five-set thriller on July 1.“I think those people [worried about Kyrgios] are mostly people inside tennis who are afraid more people might start crossing the line.
But Alyson Rudd, a long-time sports writer, declared that Kyrgios was good for tennis in “the same way that a motorway pile-up is good for the advertising hoarding next to the traffic jam”. Kim Clijsters, the former world No.1 from Belgium, said this week that it was impossible to overstate the influence Kyrgios was having at the grassroots level. She said many of the children she used to coach idolised Kyrgios.
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