OzTennis

It was exciting to see Nick beat Rafa at Wimbledon. The tennis world has been waiting for 10 years (38 of the last 40 majors won by the top 4) to see who might break the monopoly of Fed, Rafa, Djok and Andy and it could in time be Nick. Well done. I expected him to be top 10 and a possible Slam winner of the future when I saw him win the Australian Open boys on Rod Laver Arena in Jan 2013 but this has been a meteoric rise. He probably won't win this year but he will win Slams in future.



Apologies for intruding on the Rolf Harris and Oscar Pistorius threads with a good news story.

Beoz

Never heard of him.

Grayling

Well you are going to hear about him non stop........unless you avoid the TV, radio or newspapers or the next few weeks.

OzTennis

Remember it then, you'll be hearing a lot more about him.

Grayling

Yes the media will get as much mileage out of this as humanly possible....and then some more.

It has already started

OzTennis

"Never heard of him."

Obviously they haven't milked it enough yet.

Molly Coddle

He did absolutely brilliantly, well done to him

It's not often an Aussie can pull it out of the bag! Enjoy it while it lasts Oz.
You have now!

Yep, It's been not stop talk about him on the radio and TV here too.

He'll soon be parading up and down in Armani underwear......

Beoz

My morning radio is talking about the removal of Andy Murray and his return to default settings.

OzTennis

Tall poppy syndrome? Andy has done remarkably well and achieved remarkable things in his career including 2 slams and delivering Wimbledon after 77 years (of the English not being able to achieve it). He was clearly very nervous and under enormous pressure to repeat the feat this year and he had an off day which everyone is allowed to have. Like Kyrgios, to reach the quarter finals alone is a magnificent achievement and puts you in the top 8 tennis players on the planet.

chris955

I dont follow tennis but he did do well in that game. The news talked about him for 5 minutes but now its back to normal. No doubt the Aussie media will have him down as a future No1,better than anyone before him etc. I really dont miss that

OzTennis

No, you'd prefer being told you are going to win the World Cup and the Ashes. FWIW Kyrgios is a potential future No.1.

Molly Coddle

Lol typical!

As they say. It was good while it lasted.

Beoz

As the English said on Facebook "Well he's Scottish anyway"

papilon

Could be a future number 1 or just another decent pro winning a couple of ATP tour events.
Too early to tell but good luck to him and hopefully he doesn't go down the Tomic path.
It also shows how far Oz tennis has fallen that a young kid is so feted after being knocked out in the quarters.

Molly Coddle

He's only Scottish when he's losing!