[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

You're spinning into a vortex of personal bias that is blinding you from reality. You don't even offer any insight as to why you are making these very Kyrgios like statements yourself beyond grandstanding on headlines.

Kyrgios holds a 34-21 record at slams for his career and is 88-46 for his career on hard-courts. Nothing has changed in his regimen since last year or the year before to suggest he's now going to become irrelevant lol.

The only reason he's out of the top 50 is because he missed a ton of time to injury last year and lost his ranking. Even a completely disengaged Kyrgios is a legitimate top 25 player on tour and there isn't an informed tennis fan out there that would disagree with that.

People enjoy players like Kyrgios in every sport out there. They are unpredictable and have the ability to beat anyone (despite lack of commitment). If you can't see that as a positive for the sport that is full of robots, you surely don't have much of a grasp on what sells tickets and ultimately generates revenue for the tour. Everyone enjoys the jerks to some degree whether they admit it or not.

Total BS.

In the 21 Grand Slams he’s played altogether, Kyrgios has only beaten two top 10 players, Rafael Nadal and Milos Raonic at Wimbledon 2014 and 2015. Since then, check out the rankings of the opponents he has beaten at the Major events:
68, 41, 124, 123, 121, 85, 21, 77, 71, 77, 43, 98, 65, 15, 92, 43, 95, 75.

18 wins in total, with 13 being against players outside the top 70 (72%) and just the two against players inside the top 40 (11%).

R3, QF, R1, R3, R3, R2, R1. Do you know what that is? You probably don’t, but those are Nick Kyrgios’ last seven results at official events.

Despite all this, four years on from his Wimbledon quarterfinal run, we still constantly hear praise for him such as:
“Good for tennis”
“One of the most talented players ever”
“Colorful”
“Future No. 1”
“Future Grand Slam champion”
“Top five serve of all time”
(All real quotes from tennis analysts)

https://lastwordontennis.com/2018/10...yer-out-there/