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RJA


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I was at Nottingham today and Kyrgios looked pretty good, served well and quickly took the initiative in rallies with his forehand. Kyle showed flashes of his obvious talent but as we all know his game isn't suited to grass and it showed. That isn't to say he is hopeless on the surface and if he gets drawn against others whose game doesn't suit grass he can certainly be competitive but any decent grass court player should be able to expose his vulnerabilities on the surface.

Marcus' match was mostly a serving contesting with just 1 break and only 3 break points in the match. Copil edged the first on the breaker and in the second both looked ultra secure on serve until Marcus had a shocker of a game at *4-4 missing a couple of pretty easy volleys (he was serve volleying almost constantly)

Rice was totally outclassed against Muller. The latter is well past his best but he never looked in any danger of losing.

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I haven't really seen much of Mr Edmund's play. Mr Kyrgios has been up occasionally on the Challenger live streams, and he seems really impressive - would have expected him to win. Sorry that Mr Rice lost, but glad to see Mr Muller continuing to do well.

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I've also seen NK on Livestream.  He is a good player, and under-ranked. 

it'll be interesting to see how he fares on the grass.....



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He is head and shoulders above the other teenagers and maintained golden boy status ie top 200 as a teenager for more than a year without trying to hard. perhaps as an 18 year old I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Strong predictor of top 20 or higher player from 23-30 years of age not at all surprised Kyle got beaten. It is against the likes of Krygios that he will be judge over the next decade, probably the best player at Nottingham again never seen him play but just watching the stats. Too lazy to look at record re age at which he won first ITF but must stand comparison with the best to put him in top 200, I'm sure someone has already done an analysis of age of first ITF win/ challenger win/ top 200 penetration against ranking at 24 the age shift of successful pros has probably been established long enough to do it, but again that would also be interesting, ie the timing of the age shift in the top 200 players.

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So Krygios won a challenger as a 17 yr old and is 6ft 5 the later probably explains why he is a year or so ahead of Kyle in terms of his development, he looks physically ready to take on men. I haven't seen Kyle for sometime but at 17 he looked like your tallish lower sixth former totally focused and could really play tennis yet would need until he was 23 before you would see the best of him.

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I think we can forgive Kyle for having lost to Krygios.

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