Updated Date 2022, Sep 06

Nick Kyrgios, one of Australia’s greatest sports stars, is known just as much for his talent as he is for his hot and zesty temperature on the tennis court, which sees him regularly smash his tennis racquets. But while many of may just think he’s throwing his toys out the pram, the man himself has recently opened up to reveal where that wrongness comes from.

Taking to his Instagram Stories, Nick Kyrgios asked his followers to ask him anything. The questions came flooding in and Nick shared some of them, withal with his answers, on his feed and they revealed a much increasingly honest and vulnerable Kyrgios than you might expect.

The first question, and the one that worked the thesis of this article, asks, “why do you get wrestling sometimes when under pressure?” It’s certainly a question that, to some extent, needed to be asked. Not least considering we as spectators want to know, but considering it gives Nick a endangerment to explain his deportment considering on the squatter of it, he just smashes his racquet when things don’t go his way.

In his response, Nick said, “Because my whole life I’ve been ice unprepossessed under it, so I expect largest from myself. Moreover considering there is millions of dollars at stake. Do you know what that feels like?”

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Nick, unfortunately, doesn’t make it immediately well-spoken at what point things reverted for him to the point where he wasn’t as “ice cold” when under pressure. We can only seem it’s when he either turned pro in 2013, or when things really started taking off for him in recent years, such as reaching his first Wimbledon final or winning his first Australian Open doubles title, both in 2022.

We can understand Nick would expect a unrepealable level of quality, as he knows what he’s truly capable of and he has the results to when up his confidence. And, let’s be honest, none of us really like to underperform, expressly when we know what we’re capable of. So when Nick, in his opinion, fails whilst stuff watched by millions of people, it’s only human to let the pressure get the largest of him.

On top of that, someone else asked him what his worst habit was. He said, “Winning, it’s addictive. And sometimes unhealthy. It makes you obsessed.”

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Obviously, when things go good for you, you want that to continue, expressly when those winning results can bring you “millions of dollars,” as Nick puts it. But as he admits, that same winning mentality has the worthiness to completely take over your life to the point where it can be hugely detrimental. At the same time, however, Nick’s sensation of his can moreover be seen as one of his greatest strengths.

He has hinted, on several occasions, of his plans to retire should he overly win a Grand Slam tournament. He said upon getting into the Wimbledon 2022 final, “I’ve been told my whole life that winning Wimbledon is the ultimate achievement.”

“If I had won that I would have come when for other tournaments like 250s [the lowest tier of ATP tournaments], I would have really fought. I’ve kind of reached the pinnacle of what you can unzip in tennis.”

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Nick’s wrestle with depression

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Other questions he was asked by fans include, “Are you still rival with depression?”

As CNN reported when in May 2022, the Australian tennis star opened up on his mental health battles, withal with his tumultuous relationship with drugs and alcohol. “It was very serious, to the point of self-harm and it’s not okay,” he said.

“I guess I pushed everyone that cared well-nigh me yonder and I wasn’t communicating, and I just shut lanugo real life and I was trying to handle and tackle my problems head-on.”

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But, he widow that the isolation afforded to him by the global pandemic gave him the space to work through his problems, adding, “I was abusing swig a lot, drugs and that spiralled out of control. Now, I barely drink, I literally have a glass of wine at dinner.”

“That was the initial kind of thing I had to wipe up a little bit and then build my relationship when with my family and get into healthier habits like the basics; like diet, getting good sleep, trying to train a little bit increasingly and that was it.”

But, in response to stuff asked the question well-nigh his wrestle with depression, Nick said “everyday.”

He also, we speculate, deliberately answered the question with a picture of himself wearing a t-shirt featuring an image of the late basketball legend, Kobe Bryant. Kyrgios has unchangingly been extremely vocal well-nigh his love of basketball and how he worshiped Bryant in particular. He plane has a tattoo of the former L.A. Lakers legend on his body, slantingly a portrait of Michael Jordan.

So, when Kobe Bryant passed yonder in a helicopter crash in 2020, it unsurprisingly dealt a heavy wrack-up to Kyrgios.

Thoughts on tennis

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More vestige to suggest where Nick’s zesty temperature stems from came when he was asked to “describe tennis in 3 words.” We certainly wouldn’t have expected Nick to offer up the response he did. “Lonely. Repetitive. Unique.”

Repetitive and unique we can understand. Tennis matches, naturally, are all structured the same way and it’s the pinnacle of racquet sports. But the loneliness speciality of the game Nick feels was surprising, to us at least. He has a coach, a manager, the support of his family and not to mention, a legion of fans… So the fact he still feels alone, it starts to wilt clearer why he would have the outbursts he does when things don’t equal to his plan.

Not only have Nick’s posts helped provide some insight into why he gets so emotionally charged when on the tennis court, but at the same time, they reveal he is much increasingly human and increasingly vulnerable than many of us perhaps expected.

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