"Kyrgios could be easily one of the home crowd favourites" - Corretja on New York crowd at US Open

| by Alfredo Bassanelli

After reaching the Wimbledon final, Nick Kyrgios will be one of the top favourites at the 2022 US Open which begins on Monday, August 29th.

The 27-years-old Australian won his first title in three years at the Citi Open in Washington and showed some very solid performances throughout the year. Since he's not defending a lot of points, Nick Kyrgios even has a chance to finish the year in Top 10 of the ATP Rankings. Now, he focuses at the 2022 US Open and when speaking to Eurosport, Alex Corretja predicted that the 2022 Wimbledon finalist can do very well in New York.

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"Explosive! We're going to see probably the best Kyrgios that we have ever seen because he's got experience from Wimbledon. He's got experience from the summertime, where he's been playing very, very well. Of course, I think he ran a little bit out of gas at the last tournament, but he had time to recover and he's going to be at the US Open super well," said Corretja.

"So I think Nick is going to be very dangerous to play against him. I said already that before, at Wimbledon, and I'm lucky enough that he reached the final, not lucky but lucky that I said that. For the US Open, you need to think about Kyrgios, of course," said Corretja. "He knows already that he can play long matches. He knows how to deal with situations."

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"He knows that maybe he doesn't need to play for the full four hours of his best tennis, maybe he can go up and down a little bit and that's enough to win matches. The crowd in New York will love him," said Corretja.

"I mean, for sure, because he's the perfect type of player to play in New York. And New York is show. New York is all about everything. It's huge and Nick suits perfect to that ambience and to that crowd. So I think he could be easily one of the home crowd favourites," concluded Corretja.

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