Watching Nick Kyrgios and other ‘next generation’ stars, life on tour resembles a nightmare more than living the dream
ick Kyrgios is a professional tennis player, one of the best in the world. He has an adoring girlfriend, Costeen Hatzi, and an amiable sidekick called “Horse” , as well as thousands of fans in the stands to cheer his winning shots. But it is still not enough – probably, it never quite is. “Tennis is an extremely lonely sport,” he says. “That’s what I struggle with the most.
Most notably, there is Kyrgios, the combustible “bad boy” of tennis; covered in tattoos and dripping with bling. The opening episode touches on his mental health struggles and periods of heavy drinking . “I worry about him every day,” says Kyrgios’s mother, Norlaila. “Because he’s been through some really horrid times.”
Most likely it is never. Failure and disaster is built into tennis’s DNA. Probably this is what accounts for its existential frisson. Ajla Tomljanović, the Australian world No 43, points out that each tournament is effectively a zero-sum game, a Darwinian free-for-all in which a field of 32 hopefuls is quickly, industriously reduced to just one. She says: “If you’re not winning the event you’re a loser every week. That’s when I think tennis is really brutal. It keeps going, with or without you.
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