How did you act when you were twenty? Were you a bit of a dick too?
Nick Kyrgios has so much swag that if he wasn’t a tennis player, he could open a camping store.
The carved hair. The diamond stud in the ear. The way he can split your eyeballs with the speed of his serve and then be all like ‘Yeah. Eat that shit up’.
He’s also a phenomenally talented tennis player. But if you believed what you read lately, he’s an arrogant dick whose road to victory will be derailed by the general nature of his personality.
All week, the 20-year old’s Wimbledon campaign has been overshadowed by Australian media who lament his on-court antics as childish, volatile and angry. He’s been called “a bit of a tool” and told by older sportsmen to “bring it in” and “tone down the antics.”
Why? Because he talks back to the chair umpire? Because he plays with a bit of fire in the belly? Because he plays with his big Greek-Australian heart on his muscly sleeve and we can’t compute anyone that shows a modicum of personality and passion?
Newsflash: it’s SPORT.
This isn’t politics, where everything is staged, where people with dead eyes and cold hearts speak so many cliches it becomes white noise. It sport – and in the heat of the moment it’s heart, soul and eye-splittingly passionate. It’s for the screamers and the dreamers and by it’s very nature it is beautiful, tragic, frustrating and brilliant.
Top Comments
To Nick: you are a coward.
Too scared or weak to be a man and try your hardest, because, well, you're a coward, and scared of losing when your'e trying your hardest! So you play this stupid game where you pretend you don't care, so you can pretend to us and to yourself that "who gives a shit, it's just hitting a ball over the net, right?" Well, you may be fooling yourself, but from here you really are a weak loser who is too lame to take the risk of trying and failing.
You criticise other players for being arrogant, well mate, you take the cake by making your fellow tennis players feel like "meh, it doesn't matter". All very convenient when you are losing, but nobody gets to see you actually man up and try your hardest and act like you are doing that rather than faking that it does not matter.
You're a phoney Nick, and a cowardly one.
"Newsflash: it’s SPORT.
This isn’t politics, where everything is staged",
NEWSFLASH! this is the entertainment industry where a significant amount of acting out is for the medial (ie not really different from politics in that regard). High level sport is all about how many people watch, how much advertising can be tagged to the game, sponsorship deals etc. Being rude isn't 'passion'.
Bad sportsmanship gets you more attention, and probably more money these days. Still don't like him though.