If Nick Kyrgios goes on to defeat his sometime foe Novak Djokovic and claim the Wimbledon title on Sunday evening, his victory will be in defiance of numerous norms of high-level professional sport. | ANALYSIS by JakeNiallTHEAGE
If Nick Kyrgios goes on to defeat his sometime foe Novak Djokovic and claim the Wimbledon title on Sunday evening, his victory will be in defiance of numerous norms of high level professional sport.
But if there’s been largely scepticism about a part-time tour player winning the major that his generational talent demands, there are key people in Kyrgios’s corner who maintained, if not the faith, that they couldn’t give up on him either. Kyrgios is his sport’s principle disruptor. He plays without a coach, without a full commitment to the tour and without much restraint – in terms of the shots he plays, what he’s willing to say, what he reveals of himself and what he wears .
Kyrgios is a punk player, with a non-conformist, freestyle, be-yourself motto that is redolent, as Morris noted, of the younger Andre Agassi. Except that the mulleted version of Agassi reformed, recanted, knuckled down, brought in his high calibre entourage and won the bulk of his majors post-27. The 2022 Australian Open, memorable for Ash Barty’s breakthrough and Nadal’s Lazarus victory in the final, contained a notable shift in tennis audience, in that doubles matches involving Kyrgios and his friend Thanassi Kokkinakis – the “special Ks” – attracted a level of interest, heavily from younger people, that dwarfed nearly all singles matches.
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