After an Amazon Flex delivery shift, in some exhausting heat, it was home to chill with some Wimblers. First up a fantastic Federer vs. Djokovic match. And then this.
I like to call the Aussie Nick ‘The Prick’ Kyrgios, on account of his spoilt brat antics. He’s a pretty amazing tennis player. But what a farkin’ dildo!
He particularly likes to get into a spat with referees, bullying and insulting them. It seems to gee him up. But obviously it’s going to be counter-productive, inasmuch as the umpire can’t help but be irked by it.
At one point one of the commentators asked fellow pundits Boris Becker and, er… (can’t recall the Aussie guy’s name! Poss’ Todd Woodbridge?) why they thought he, Kyrgios, behaves that way. Boris more or less nailed it: it’s simply a question of maturity (or lack thereof).
I don’t know if it was in relation to this loss against Nadal, or poss’ another one, the following year, but apparently Kyrgios contemplated suicide, did actually self-harm (scarring his arm, later covered with a ‘sleeve tattoo’!), and wound up getting psychiatric help.
Read more on that here. If inclined to do so! As a depressive who has actually attempted suicide, I kind of sympathise. But at the same time, it all smacks of his ‘theatre of me’ ego tripping.
As one of the pundits commentating said, very rarely is there a match featuring Rafael Nadal in which most of the talk is about the other player. The ‘Kyrgios Show’ changes all of that!