WATCH: “Was that legal?” Nick Kyrgios rapaciously goes around the net on Daniil Medvedev’s side to hit a winner but ends up losing the point
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Nick Kyrgios is having the best season of his career and against his character, is playing very consistent tennis. He is stepping to the occasion when it matters and has done well in the big events. He reached his maiden grand slam final at Wimbledon where he lost to Novak Djokovic and then ended up winning the Washington Open ahead of the US Open.
Coming into the US Open, Kyrgios was one of the contenders to go deep but the only major block in his path was the defending champion and World No.1, Daniil Medvedev. Kyrgios met Medvedev in the Round of 16 and taught him a lesson by beating him convincingly in four sets 7-6(11),3-6,6-3,6-2.
Kyrgios was the better player throughout the match and to show this kind of level against the World No.1 is no joke. He looked calm for a change and was playing on merit. He took charge of the rallies from the baseline and was making Medvedev move all around. Despite losing the second set, the intensity with which he played was the same and he once again leveled up his game.
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During the second game of the third set, Kyrgios did a rather unusual thing and he didn’t do it intentionally. Medvedev played a drop shot when Kyrgios hit a pass, the Russian barely touched the ball with his racket and it was falling onto his side of the court but Kyrgios, with all the adrenaline he had not only played the shot but played it after crossing the net and didn’t let the ball bounce.
While a player can go across the net and hit the shot, he cannot do it if the ball hasn’t bounced. Kyrgios wasn’t aware of the rules and thought that he had won the point. “I honestly was thinking that was legal,” Kyrgios told his box.
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