Wimbledon 2021: The Kyrgios Humbert Show continues today
Nick Kyrgios and Ugo Humbert thwarted the curfew on Tuesday. Today there is the continuation of the game between the Australian and the French in Wimbledon.
by tennisnet.com
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Jun 30, 2021, 12:17 am
Edwin Weindorfer, on the sidelines of the ATP Tour 250 tournament in Stuttgart, suggested that Nick Kyrgios would not even travel to Europe and especially not to London to meet his colleagues there after almost half a year Take a break to measure again. Well, the prospect of a fortnightly quarantine on his return to Australia did not deter Kyrgios, he was not rewarded for his wanderlust. Because the draw for the third major of the year brought him Ugo Humbert, the winner of HalleWestfalen.
A match that had earned one of the big courts, thought the organizers in London, who set the meeting between the Frenchman and Kyrgios late on the roofed and light-flooded Court 1. Basically exactly the scenario that Nick Kyrgios sees as the only sensible one when it comes to practicing his profession: tennis should be played in front of fans. Like at the Australian Open, where Kyrgios gave up a 2-0 set lead against Dominic Thiem in front of almost full grandstands. On the last evening before a lockdown set in again in Melbourne.
Kyrgios finds strength and inspiration
So Kyrgios came to play. And Humbert was there anyway. In Halle, Alexander Zverev had said that he could not have done anything differently, Humbert was simply too strong. What the left-hander can do, Kyrgios felt at the beginning of the year at that Australian Open. Since the local hero just saved himself in the match against Thiem. At Wimbledon, Kyrgios started well, then slacked off more and more. And when it looked like, after the third movement, namely that Humbert would also have all the advantages physically on his side, Kyrgios found a few remaining percent of strength and inspiration somewhere.
Initially, they went up to 3: 3 in the fifth set. Then supervisor Gerry Armstrong showed up on Court 1, rarely a good sign. A few minutes before 11 p.m. local time it was over, out of consideration for the residents of Wimbledon. Whoever has a ticket for Wednesday can be happy: The Kyrgios-Humbert-Shwo continues today after the match between Elina Svitolina and Alison van Uytwanck.
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