Kyrgios: “McEnroe a bit crazy. And man didn’t build the pyramids”

He missed the Australian Open, which saw him as a favorite on home soil to have surgery on his right knee. Now, Nick Kyrgios has much, too much free time that he spends externalizing right and left, between social networks, youtube, podcasts. In short, all this to say that good Nick is back in the news for his latest catchphrases. This time, guest of the “Impaulsive” podcast, he also bothered the sacred monsters of the racket. In short, according to Nick McEnroe, Sampras and Agassi could not survive in the modern era of tennis. It is not a forced interpretation of his words, he just said it: “Michael Jordan would have no problem staying at the level of the best even in 2023, but there is no hope for them”. The Bad Boy of Canberra, finalist at Wimbledon in 2022, underlined that there was nothing personal in his utterance: “McEnroe is a good boy, even if a little crazy”. In short, we can believe him as the Australian is a professor in the field of madness.

But why limit yourself to the world of rackets when you can expand on other topics? We discover, for example, that Nick tends towards flat earth and that he ascribes the construction of the pyramids in Egypt to extraterrestrial hands: “They are perfect, symmetrical, it is impossible for them to have been erected by man”. Doubts also on the landing of man on the moon.

Alcohol and girlfriend

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But there was also a more serious moment, in which Kyrgios talked about his addictions and the problem with alcohol he had in the past: “I drank every day, I drank even when I had to play important matches. Now everything is different. I drink but in moderation and only occasionally”. Thanks above all to his girlfriend Costeen Hazi, who according to him would have saved his life: “Since she’s been here I’ve been playing the best tennis of my career, I don’t have a coach but she’s always next to me, pushing me and he encourages me: “Just tell me that I’m talented, that I can do it, Wimbledon was also fundamental.” Which, if he had won, would have speeded up his retirement: “Yes, maybe I would have quit. At least for a couple of seasons…”.