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Nick Kyrgios doesn’t know how his tennis career should go on.
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For the first time he speaks about mental problems that have burdened him on the professional tour since the beginning.
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What he experienced is 20 times worse than what Naomi Osaka is talking about now.
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More and more athletes are talking about their very personal mental problems. So does super gymnast Simone Biles.
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Since more and more athletes have been talking publicly about their mental problems, the subject of psyche is no longer a taboo. Even athletes who make an unshakable impression are obviously not spared from such crises and experiences.
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Nick Kyrgios (26, ATP 77), who is decried as a tennis bully, has now also given insights into his innermost being. The Australian criticizes the sometimes tough handling on the professional tour. “I’m sturdy, but I’ve gotten so much hatred, racism and other aversions. From the tour, from fans, from everything, ”said the Australian at the ATP tournament in Washington, where he will be in action against Mackenzie McDonald on Wednesday night.
The time with Corona seems to have come very close to Kyrgios. He was out of the tennis circuit for almost a full year. And in the current season he only competed five times: two times in Melbourne, in Wimbledon and Atlanta, and now the Australian is trying a new start in Washington.
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But his thoughtful words indicate that he himself does not know exactly where the tennis journey is going for him. At a young age on the tour in particular, he would have had a lot of problems. «I’ve been in dark places. Places people like Naomi Osaka are right now when they are talking about mental problems. But what I went through was 20 times worse in my opinion. ” The others would only get good press. «No hateful news. No ridiculously high penalties for thrashing balls out of the stadium. “
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Wrong to treat him like Federer
Kyrgios would have expected otherwise: “Instead of marginalizing someone like that, almost crucifying them, one should have said: Okay, the guy is different, let him behave differently in a certain way, don’t treat him like a Roger Federer or Marin Cilic.”
How long will Kyrgios’ tennis career continue? In any case, his words sound like goodbye. “Every time I’m at a tournament I think it could be the last time I’ll be here. I don’t know where I am right now. I feel weird. I feel strange about my career right now. ” (red)
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