Quirky Nick Kyrgios would likely prefer moving on to other challenges rather than hang around after age 30 as an ATP tennis “pensioner”.
“There is zero chance that Nick Kyrgios will be playing tennis when he is 30 years old. There’s absolutely no chance,” Kyrgios told Britain’s Sunday Times. “I don’t know how long my career will be but God help me if I am playing tennis at 30. There are so many more things to this world than tennis for me. Not tennis for me at 30. Please.”
The 20-year-old Australian has repeatedly said that he does not yearn for a lengthy tennis career. The Australian-Malaysian-Greek player has always expressed his admiration for the NBA, which appears to be one of his main sporting loves.
Kyrgios still has more than enough time to plot his sporting course, but in the meantime is concentrating on his second-round place at the French Open.
Kyrgios advanced on a rainy Paris opening day over Italian Marco Cecchinato 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6), 6-4. The former bad boy working to repair his disruptive reputation, had a minor clash with authority during his victory, drawing what many considered an unjustified code violation for yelling a bit too loudly at a ball-kid to bring him a towel amid a loud stadium crowd.
Many suggest the discipline was based more on the Kyrgios reputation than in the reality of the actual situation.
As for his behaviour niggles, Kyrgios told the London newspaper that he has been helped in his efforts at concentration by professionals.
“I have seen a couple of sports psychologists. But I can’t really focus for long enough, I can’t take it seriously. They are trying to find what fuels you, motivates you. But it’s tough, one week I’m motivated, one week I am not. So I walked away. Not my thing.”
“Sometimes I get too creative when I should keep it simple. One of my coaches always used to say, when people watch you, you don’t have to try and go for that extra shot. It keeps me entertained and wanting to play.”
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TOMIC DEFENDS DECISION TO SKIP RIO OLYMPICS
Bernard Tomic has defended his controversial decision to abandon Australia at the Summer Olympics and play a new ATP event in Mexico instead.
The on-again, off-again Davis Cup stalwart (16-4 in the competition) insists that though he won’t be on side for the green-and-gold in Rio in August, his loyalty should not be questioned.
Tomic made the call to play the Tour instead of the Games as Nick Kyrgios faces headwinds in his own campaign to ensure Olympic squad inclusion after a Twitter run-in with the head bureaucrat of the national Olympic committee.
Tomic told Australian media that he prefers to sidestep the building Olympic controversy altogether.
“My loyalty is always there. For Davis Cup it’s huge and when I’m playing there it’s amazing,” he said. “My schedule has been very, very tough. What I’ve chosen is the way I’ve chosen. That’s all I can say about that. I’m not going (to the Olympics), I’m going to play another tournament; it looks like it’s a bad thing but really my schedule this year has been that way.
“Playing that tournament, I’ll try and win it.”
Meanwhile, the number 22 opens his French Open — weather permitting — against American Brian Baker in the first round of the weather plagued major.