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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nHe converted his only two chances against the former Wimbledon finalist to set a second-round matchup with Great Britain\u2019s Cameron Norrie.<\/p>\n
Upbeat Kyrgios, who is hoping to pick up an Australian Open wild card, took the loss in stride.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel good and I\u2019m going to be able to try and use it as a building block, that\u2019s my goal obviously, and not just AO but this year, for whatever this year holds, I do want to continue to play as much as I can, and we\u2019ll see, yeah,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Kyrgios talked plenty about himself, his past and the injuries that have sabotaged his game since his best year in 2022, but he also made sure he credited his opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cCredit to my opponent today. He played lights out. You can tell that he\u2019s new to the tour, locked in, excited, and he\u2019s a hell of a player,\u201d he said of the former University of Illinois standout.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, he\u2019s going to be one to watch, for sure. He\u2019s obviously had a breakthrough year last year and he\u2019s going to continue to have big wins. I want to give my credit to my opponent, as well. It\u2019s not like he played like shit or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyrgios, ranked 670, hopes to continue working in order to build some momentum. He intends to play as much as he can in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t played a lot of matches so that makes it tough as well. The energy, the match energy is different. Yeah, man, it\u2019s tough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs of right now, I\u2019m exactly where I actually want to be. You know, obviously the result, can\u2019t win them all. Right now, I\u2019m okay taking the loss on my chin and moving forward and just building and getting out there and playing more. Can\u2019t take these moments for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York native Aleksandar Kovacevic dispatched Nick Kyrgios to win on his debut at the Brisbane International. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-395077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}