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Nick Kyrgios

Nick Kyrgios playing at Roland Garros 2013
Full name	Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios
Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Melbourne, Australia
Born	(1995-04-27) 27 April 1995 Canberra, Australia
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2012
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$115,034
Official website	nickkyrgios.org
Singles
Career record	2–2
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 177 (7 October 2013)
Current ranking	No. 177 (7 October 2013)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2013)
French Open	2R (2013)
US Open	1R (2013)
Doubles
Career record	0–2
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 474 (16 September 2013)
Current ranking	No. 486 (7 October 2013)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2013)
Last updated on: 7 October 2013.

Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios (Greek: Νίκος Κύργιος; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player who won the boys singles event at the 2013 Australian Open and the boys doubles event at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships.

Personal life

Kyrgios was born in Canberra, Australia. Kyrgios' father George was born in Georgani, Greece and is of Greek heritage and his mother Norlaila comes from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Kyrgios' father is a tradesman (painter) and his mother is a software engineer. Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios (Nick for short) is the third of three children. Christos Kyrgios is his elder brother who is a lawyer and Halimah Kyrgios is his sister who is a musical theater performer. Kyrgios attended Radford College until Year 8 and completed his Year 12 certificate in 2012 at Daramalan College in Canberra.

Kyrgios was a promising Basketball player and had represented ACT and Australia in Basketball until he made the decision to focus solely on his Tennis when he was 14 years old. Kyrgios gained a full scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in 2012 where he was able to further develop his tennis. Kyrgios is an avid fan of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association.

Tennis career

Juniors

Kyrgios won his first ITF junior tour title in Fiji in June 2010, aged 15. He started to compete more regularly on the junior tour in 2011, making his junior Grand Slam debut at the 2011 Australian Open. During 2012 he won two junior grand slam doubles titles, and rose to world number three, although he had to withdraw from the Wildcard Playoff competition for the 2013 Australian Open due to injury. Moving into 2013, he gained the number 1 junior ranking by defeating Wayne Montgomery in Traralgon, Australia prior to the Australian Open, where as the juniors number 3 seed he reached the final against fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis. After saving two set points in the first set, Kyrgios came out victorious 7–6(4) 6–3 to claim his first junior grand slam title.

Tournament	2011	2012	2013	W–L
Junior Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	3R	2R	W	9–2
French Open	A	2R	2R	2–2
Wimbledon	1R	QF	3R	5–3
US Open	A	QF	A	3–1
Win–Loss	2–2	8–4	9–2	19-8

2012

Kyrgios had a good chance to win his first round qualifying match at the 2012 Australian Open after winning the first set in a tiebreak. His opponent Mathieu Rodrigues cruised through the rest of the match eventually defeating Kyrgios. 7–6(3) 3–6 2–6.

Kyrgios then competed on the 2012 ITF Men's Circuit for the rest of the season. Competing in tournaments in Australia, Germany, Japan and Slovenia. The highlights on the circuit for him coming at the end of the season where he reached a semi-final and a quarter-final in Australian tournaments.

2013

Kyrgios commenced the year ranked at #838 and played his first professional tournament of the year at the 2013 Brisbane International losing in the first round of qualifying to James Duckworth 1–6, 6–7(4). He then lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2013 Australian Open to Bradley Klahn 3–6, 2–6. After the Australian Open, a positive Kyrgios mentioned that he wanted to make the top 300 by the end of the year.

Following his victory at the Australian Open Boys tournament, he received a wildcard into his first ATP challenger event at the 2013 Charles Sturt Adelaide International and recorded his first challenger win against the sixth seed Brydan Klein in the first round 6–4, 6–7(5), 6–1. He then proceeded to defeat Suk-Young Jeong and Greg Jones in straight sets to reach his first challenger semi-final. He ultimately lost to English player James Ward in three sets in the semi-final, 4–6, 7–5, 1–6. He then played two consecutive Futures tournaments. In the Australia F1 he reached the quarterfinal after defeating Ryan Agar in straight sets then Jose Statham in three sets. He went down to Michael Venus in the quarterfinal 2–6, 4–6. He then lost to Brydan Klein in the first round of the Australia F2 in staight sets. He was a wildcard at his next tournament, the 2013 Nature's Way Sydney Tennis International. He upset the sixth seed Brydan Klein in two sets in the first round. He went on to defeat Ivo Klec, Greg Jones, and then the fifth seed Stéphane Robert to reach his first ever challenger final. In the final, he defeated fellow countryman Matt Reid 6–3, 6–2 to win his first challenger tour title at the age of 17.

Kyrgios was given a wild card into the qualifying competition of the 2013 French Open, however, because of the withdrawal of John Millman from the main draw due to injury on 20 May 2013, Kyrgios' wild card was raised to the main draw, meaning he would compete in a main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. Kyrgios had the biggest win of his career to date against the former world number 8 Radek Stepanek in three sets, each of these ending in tiebreaks, giving him the first ATP Tour level win of his career. Although he ultimately lost to Marin Cilic in the following round, his ranking rose to number 213. Kyrgios later qualified for the 2013 US Open (tennis), where he was beaten by 4th seed David Ferrer 7-5 6-3 6-2 in his opening match. He reached a new career high of number 186 on 9 September 2013.

Following the US Open, Kyrgios made his Davis Cup debut for Australia at the World Group Play-offs against Poland. Kyrgios partnered Chris Guccione in the doubles rubber against Poland's Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, however lost in 5 sets. He then went on to win his first singles rubber, after Michał Przysiężny retired 5 games into the match.

In October, Kyrgios made the semi final of the 2013 Sacramento Challenger, before falling to Tim Smyczek.

2014

Kyrgios will commence the 2014 season by making his debut at the 2014 Brisbane International.

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2013	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	0–0
French Open	2R	1-1
Wimbledon	A	0–0
US Open	1R	0–1
Win–Loss	1–2	1–2

National representation

Davis Cup

Kyrgios made his Davis Cup debut for Australia in September 2013 against Poland at the age of 18. He replaced fellow countryman Marinko Matosevic in the team after defeating him in a play off during the lead up to the tie. He was selected to pair with Chris Guccione in the crucial doubles rubber that they would end up losing in five sets.

All Davis Cup Matches: 1–1 (Singles: 1–0; Doubles: 0–1)
2013 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs
Round	Date	Opponents	Tie score	Venue	Surface	Match	Opponent	Rubber score
PO	13–15 Sep 2013	Poland	4–1	Warsaw	Clay (i)	Doubles (with Guccione)	Fyrstenberg & Matkowski	7–5, 4–6, 2–6, 7–6(7–5), 4-6 (L)
						Singles 5	Michal Przysiezny	4–1 ret.

ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 1 (2 Titles)

Legend

ATP Challengers (1–0)

ITF Futures (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	3 March 2013	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Matt Reid	6–3, 6-2
Runner-up	2.	15 April 2013	Chengdu, China	Hard	Wu Di	3-6, 3-6
Winner	3.	22 April 2013	Yuxi, China	Hard	Boy Westerhof	7-5, 6-1

External links

• ATP Profile