Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. Kyrgios has won six ATP titles and has reached nine ATP finals, including a Masters 1000 final at the 2017 Cincinnati Masters.
In his junior career, Kyrgios won the boys’ singles event at the 2013 Australian Open and the boys’ doubles events at the 2012 French Open, the 2012 Wimbledon, and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. He has reached the quarterfinals at two singles majors in his professional career: the 2014 Wimbledon Championships (upsetting then-world No. 1 Rafael Nadal en route) and the 2015 Australian Open. Kyrgios is only the third player, after Dominik Hrbatý and Lleyton Hewitt, to have beaten each member of the Big Three (Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal) the first time he played each of them.
Is Nick Kyrgios mentally unstable?
In victory, Kyrgios was gushingly courteous towards his 20-year-old opponent. He paid tribute to his girlfriend by quoting on his social media platform saying she is the best girlfriend in the world.
Tennis star Nick Kyrgios has unlocked up about the mental health issues he has battled throughout his career, saying he struggled with drug and alcohol misuse and self-harm. The mystifying Australian, whose on-court explosions often make him a divisive figure among tennis fans, has always been honest about his complex connection with the sport.
