"I would pray to not play Nick Kyrgios at Wimbledon" - says Alex Corretja

| by Drew Tate

Eurosport tennis analyst Alex Corretja feels like playing Nick Kyrgios early is the worst that could happen to any seed.

Kyrgios skipped the entire clay season spending time in native Australia and, uhm, not sure what he did. Whatever he did, it translated to a fairly high level on the grass with the Aussie player reaching back-to-back semifinals in Stuttgart and Halle. He's playing Mallorca this week and he opened with another win clearly indicating his high comfort on grass.

It's nothing new, it's been like that forever and Kyrgios has always maintained that winning Wimbledon was a dream. He went further this year saying it's a clear goal for him. Corretja believes his ambition and he thinks everybody is praying to avoid him early.

If I would be in the Wimbledon draw and I would be seeded, I would pray not to play Kyrgios in the first rounds. It's so difficult to play against him, his serve is probably one of the best on tour right now. He knows that he loves to play on grass, he likes to have fun, he likes to get the crowd involved. I think he's playing with less pressure.

Corretja on Kyrgios at Wimbledon
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"He's very nice to me" - Kyrgios on facing Bautista Agut

Corretja also believes that Kyrgios is not putting too much pressure on himself like he needs to win the event but rather he's playing tennis and letting things unfold as they are. It's a healthy approach that could see him go deep and Corretja actually could see him going really deep.

I feel like he's just playing to see what will happen, and he loves the conditions, he loves the surface. So I think if he's got a place in the draw where the seeds are ones that he can dictate and that he's the one dealing and dominating, he can be dangerous. He can put pressure with the return as well, with the forehand, with the backhand flat. Well, I think Kyrgios is someone that you don't want to really see next to you in the draw.


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