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This happens quite often. Players retiring hurt or unable to play. Kyrgios just kept fit and beating the players he had to.

Be nice if people hark back to how much of a flog Federer was before he’s the nice boy he is now. Selective memories.

Federer is still a flog, he just contained it a lot better when he was winning. His floggishness came out to the spotlight again when challenged (especially by Rafa in the late 2000's)
 

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This happens quite often. Players retiring hurt or unable to play. Kyrgios just kept fit and beating the players he had to.

Be nice if people hark back to how much of a flog Federer was before he’s the nice boy he is now. Selective memories.
1- 100% agree, slams are 50% attrition battles. Not just being good enough to win your matches
2- Yeh ive never warmed to Fed post his early antics. Hes a legend and a beautiful tennis player but everyone lauding him like the patron saint of good guy tennis annoys me.
 
I'm not going to turn a blind eye to the massive negative side of Nick.
But
I find his tennis riveting.
I do love watching him play.
I don't tune in for the side show.
His tennis is entertainment enough.
I want him to beat Nocax fsir snd square. No stupid stuff. Beat him purely on ability.
He plays on edge and that’s arguably been one of the reasons he’s been so successful so far this tournament - he’s finally channeling his emotions constructively.

He’s not going to be able to throw Jokovic as easily as some of his other opponents this tournament, but it’s clearly quite jarring playing him and Nick knows it.
 
I'm a lot of things (smart, kind, sincere, popular, rich, good looking etc) but I am not a flog or a questionable character :)

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Nick played through a sore shoulder too.
Yep, that bloody sore shoulder.

As another astute poster on here pointed out a few days ago, it only seemed to flare up whenever he was 15-40 down.
 

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I find these two articles fascinating from a sociological POV - the first is from an upper-class English journalist and the second from an Aussie (open in private view)



The Brit's article is a sneering take-down of Kyrgios and his behaviour and the humiliation the poor Royals may have to suffer in chatting to such a brat. What's interesting is his criticism of Nick's last post-match interview - most Australians felt he had redeemed himself somewhat in his openness and authenticity. The last questions about the dress-code was universally derided as British up-lippery, yet Oliver Brown cites it as a reasonable questions and attacks Nick's deference.

The Aussie's article is much more pragmatic - a hero to few even in our country but I think a begrudging respect is growing inwardly, Aussies are absolute suckers for authenticity whereas genuity is not a hallmark British characteristic in the slightest (i.e. the manner in which you speak to Royals must be light and heavily depersonalised).

I was on the fence but now I really want Kyrgios to serve it to those absolute British toffs. I don't care if half our grandparents are from the Motherland the place is a toxic wasteland of class privilege that belongs in a Shakespearean play.
Yes but he is not disrepecting the royals or the class system , he's disrespecting the umpires, linesman and his oppenents.
 

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