For four sets and over three hours, Nick Krygios controlled Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No.4 seed, in an emotional win Saturday night on the No. 1 Court of Wimbledon.
The game was tainted with emotion from the beginning. Krygios was constantly complaining to the umpire and interrupting the game. This got to Tsitsipas’ head. He started targeting Krygios with his shots. The tension came to a head when Krygios won the game in a tiebreaker with three unreturnable shots.
Krygios has the potential to be the dark horse of Wimbledon. The men’s tournament seems as if Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, the two biggest names in men’s tennis, will be playing each other in the final. Then comes Krygios.
He is a threatening force that no one can count out of the picture. He plays when he wants, then disappears for months on end. However, whenever he does play, he sees sold-out stadiums, and does things that results in tens of thousands of fines. Then, he will take to the court and put on a display of talent that other players can only dream about. He is both tennis’ worst nightmare and greatest dream: he is hard to watch, but also hard not to.
“Unscripted. Unfiltered. Unmissable” is how the official Wimbledon Twitter account summed up Krygios’ performance on Saturday night. Tsitsipas, on the other hand, had stronger words: “It’s constant bullying, that’s what he does.”
Krygios’ subsequent wins put him in the semifinal match with Nadal. Nadal is known as one of the game’s nicest players. He has admired Krygios’ talent, but had apprehensions about his angry outbursts, especially when the probability of a win is slipping away. This semifinal showdown on Friday morning serves to be an epic battle between two talented players, with very different personalities. The big question is: who will persevere, the good guy, or the bad guy?
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The game was tainted with emotion from the beginning. Krygios was constantly complaining to the umpire and interrupting the game. This got to Tsitsipas’ head. He started targeting Krygios with his shots. The tension came to a head when Krygios won the game in a tiebreaker with three unreturnable shots.
Krygios has the potential to be the dark horse of Wimbledon. The men’s tournament seems as if Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, the two biggest names in men’s tennis, will be playing each other in the final. Then comes Krygios.
He is a threatening force that no one can count out of the picture. He plays when he wants, then disappears for months on end. However, whenever he does play, he sees sold-out stadiums, and does things that results in tens of thousands of fines. Then, he will take to the court and put on a display of talent that other players can only dream about. He is both tennis’ worst nightmare and greatest dream: he is hard to watch, but also hard not to.
“Unscripted. Unfiltered. Unmissable” is how the official Wimbledon Twitter account summed up Krygios’ performance on Saturday night. Tsitsipas, on the other hand, had stronger words: “It’s constant bullying, that’s what he does.”
Krygios’ subsequent wins put him in the semifinal match with Nadal. Nadal is known as one of the game’s nicest players. He has admired Krygios’ talent, but had apprehensions about his angry outbursts, especially when the probability of a win is slipping away. This semifinal showdown on Friday morning serves to be an epic battle between two talented players, with very different personalities. The big question is: who will persevere, the good guy, or the bad guy?
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