Episode 1887
Nick Kyrgios
Sun, 2022-Jul-03 01:27 UTC
Length - 2:22
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With 277,382 views on Saturday, 2 July 2022 our article of the day is Nick Kyrgios.
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( KIRR-ee-oss; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. Kyrgios has won six ATP titles and has reached nine ATP finals, including a Masters 1000 final at the 2017 Cincinnati Masters.
In doubles, he has a career-high ranking of world No. 29, achieved on 21 March 2022, after winning a Major doubles title at the 2022 Australian Open and later making the semifinals in Miami, on both occasions partnering Thanasi Kokkinakis.
In his junior career, Kyrgios won the boys' singles event at the 2013 Australian Open and the boys' doubles events at the 2012 French Open, the 2012 Wimbledon and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. In his professional career, he has reached the quarterfinals at two singles majors: the 2014 Wimbledon Championships (upsetting then-world No. 1 Rafael Nadal en route) and the 2015 Australian Open. Kyrgios is only the third player, after Dominik Hrbatý and Lleyton Hewitt, to have beaten each member of the Big Three (Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal) the first time he played each of them.
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