{"id":9490,"date":"2023-06-15T22:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9490"},"modified":"2023-06-15T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:11:48","slug":"sport-nadal-vs-kyrgrios-wimbledon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9490","title":{"rendered":"SPORT: Nadal vs Kyrgrios, Wimbledon, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4S5YmO0KOU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to call the Aussie Nick \u2018The Prick\u2019 Kyrgios, on account of his spoilt brat antics. He\u2019s a pretty amazing tennis player. But what a farkin\u2019 dildo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He particularly likes to get into a spat with referees, bullying and insulting them. It seems to gee him up. But obviously it\u2019s going to be counter-productive, inasmuch as the umpire can\u2019t help but be irked by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point one of the commentators asked fellow pundits Boris Becker and, er\u2026 (can\u2019t recall the Aussie guy\u2019s name! Poss\u2019 Todd Woodbridge?) why they thought he, Kyrgios, behaves that way. Boris more or less nailed it: it\u2019s simply a question of maturity (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know if it was in relation to this loss against Nadal, or poss\u2019 another one, the following year, but apparently Kyrgios contemplated suicide, did actually self-harm (scarring his arm, later covered with a \u2018sleeve tattoo\u2019!), and wound up getting psychiatric help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/65902268.amp\">here<\/a>. 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 \u2018theatre of me\u2019 ego tripping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2018Kyrgios Show\u2019 changes all of that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2018The Prick\u2019 Kyrgios, on account of his spoilt brat antics. He\u2019s a pretty amazing tennis player. But what a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SPORT: Nadal vs Kyrgrios, Wimbledon, 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2t4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}