Mats Wilander believes Nick Kyrgios has a chance to win the 2025 Australian Open if he does ‘this’
All eyes will be on Nick Kyrgios at the 2025 Australian Open, who after over 15 months away from the sport due to injury, is set to comeback.
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Nick Kyrgios and Mats Wilander (via Daily Express/the Japan Times)
Nick Kyrgios is one of the few players on the Tour who combines skills on the court with charisma off the court. But, his charisma has often overwhelmed his talent in fans’ view. However, that cannot be said for tennis legend Mats Wilander, who believes the Aussie can win the 2025 Australian Open.
Kyrgios recently announced that he will be returning to the tour next year after being away from the court for more than fifteen months. The 29-year-old has played one match since the start of 2023 and has undergone three surgeries. He is set to make his comeback at the Brisbane International which starts on December 29.
The former World No.13 will also play alongside Novak Djokovic in the doubles of the competition. This will act as a warm-up tournament ahead of the 2025 Australian Open. It will be the first time the Aussie will compete in a Grand Slam tournament since the 2022 US Open. He is also set to play alongside Thanasi Kokkinakis in the doubles at Melbourne.
The closest Kyrgios has come to winning a Grand Slam was at the 2022 Wimbledon Championship final, where he lost to Djokovic. Mats Wilander shared his take on Kyrgios having the “chance to do it all.”
Now, here’s another statement, if Nick goes out, and he plays his absolute best tennis, and if he wins the Grand Slam, I believe maybe for the first time ever, a single player would have ticked every single box that you can tick. He is competitive, the level is high, the mental attitude is brilliant, the repertoire and the variety of shot-making and the jokes he cracks, no one has ever done it all. Nick Kyrgios has a chance to do it all.
Mats Wilander said via Eurosport
Kyrgios will first play in the World Tennis League exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi which starts on December 19. The mixed-team event has attracted the likes of Simona Halep, Casper Ruud, and Aryna Sabalenka.
Mats Wilander reveals it will be interesting to see how Jannik Sinner will react to Nick Kyrgios’ plans
For the past few weeks, Nick Kyrgios has remained critical of Jannik Sinner’s doping saga. The Italian twice tested positive for clostebol in March but was exonerated of any punishment by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA). Recently, he revealed that if he plays Sinner at the Australian Open, he will seek means to disrupt the match.
His statement has, in fact, made a former British No.1 advise him not to throw his respect out the window. Mats Wilander revealed during the aforementioned conversation that it would be interesting to see how Sinner would react.
It would be interesting to see if Jannik Sinner could hold and keep his cool if he played someone like Nick Kyrgios on, let’s say, the old Vodafone, John Cain Arena. They let all the ground pass holders at the Australian Open come in, so the average age in the crowd goes from 60 years old down to 16 years old or maybe 20 and some of them are having a few beers too many.
Mats Wilander said
Sinner and Kyrgios have met only once on the court but that happened at the 2022 Miami Open, with the former winning in straight sets. It will exciting to see if they meet for the second time at the 2025 Australian Open.
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