World class professional athlete?!

[logan2z]

Nick Kyrgios. 21 years old. Ranked #14 on the ATP Tour. Makes millions of dollars in prize money and endorsements. Says he hates the game, wants to retire by 27, would rather be playing basketball or Pokemon Go. Pathetic display at the Shanghai Rolex Masters.

[JP Chestnut]

Being good at something isn't the same as caring about it.

[logan2z]

Being good at something isn't the same as caring about it.

True. Then why would you want to drag all over the world doing something you obviously hate day in and day out? Oh yeah, the money, how could I forget.

A few $16K fines aren't going to put a dent in his bank account. They should suspend him from the tour and then he might feel some real financial pain.

[HapaHapa]

Hopefully dissatisfaction plus $$$ won't become drug habit

[JP Chestnut]

Hopefully dissatisfaction plus $$$ won't become drug habit

Probably whores and gambling like tiger woods.

[foodle]

Not unusual for athletes to actually hate their sport. They get pushed into it by parents or are addicted to the money so they keep playing. Combine that with immaturity/youth and you get this guy.

Tons of college athletes who have no professional prospects (either because the sport has no professional league or because they're not good enough) never touch their sport again after college. Seems quite a shame given how much time and effort they put in up to that point.

As I was watching the video, I was thinking back to when McEnroe would throw tantrums on the court. But the big difference is that McEnroe was throwing a fit because he cared so much about the game and winning. This guy doesn't give a shit and doesn't care who knows it. McEnroe (and his brother) are still commentating and very active in the game. This guy will likely disappear from tennis the second he stops getting sponsors and money.

[Sidheguitarist]

whores and gambling like tiger woods.

I heard that Tiger changed his name a few years back...


To Cheetah...








6 or 7 years ago, I promoted some international contest winners on their sponsored tours of the USA. The deal is: win the GFA–which is one of the 3 biggest international competitions in classical guitar in the world–and you get some cash, a record deal with Naxos, a concert video deal with Mel Bay, a bunch of gear, and they sponsor you on a 50-state tour of the USA, with some adjunct dates in south America and China. Instant international concert career from scratch, so it's a big deal.

People from all over the world compete for top spot. So the first guy to come through town was the stereotypical prodigy/whiz kid/workaholic 22 year old. He made sure to practice a couple of hours a day the whole time he was here, even while we drug his French ass over to the range in Idaho to shoot full-auto MP5s, and took him to every craft cocktail bar in town every night.

The next year, his good friend from middle school-on came through. (that's the back story of why I got involved, btw: in a 5 year period, 3 of the winners of this thing all came up through the same French middle and secondary school program, and the only way for me to figure out what in the hell they were doing to produce so many world-class international contest winners was to bring them to Spokane and ask... by the time the second guy had left, I knew the answer, so I didn't have to pay for the 3rd)

The second guy spent the whole time clowning around with us; he went onstage to do the recital at GU after having basically not played at all for 3 days straight or something. Don't get me wrong: he was still plenty good, but obviously not as polished up as the other dude. For him, this whole concert/recording artist was just something he knew how to do really well. He'll always play, I'm sure, but I could see him taking several years off to go crew on a racing sailboat or travel southeast Asia, or something. Same sort of deal with a lot of early prodigies in a lot of things.


Just you all wait until Lexy Panterra becomes a nun or a chef or an accountant or something.

[93 Turbo]

This guy is a total flog bag.

[Henryj]

I'm thinking doper and broke before he's 30.

BTW, anybody else have the urge to caption that newsman's fake smile at the end of the clip? "I have a platypus in my shorts and it's not happy."

[foodle]

8 week suspension and increased fine to $25k:
http://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/1 ... ck-kyrgios

Although it's unlikely to change his behavior ...

[logan2z]

8 week suspension and increased fine to $25k:
http://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/1 ... ck-kyrgios

Although it's unlikely to change his behavior ...

Reduced to three weeks if he agrees to see a sports psychologist.

Pretty weak by the ATP. There are essentially no tournaments between now and the Australian Open in January - well, other than the World Tour Finals which Kyrgios wouldn't quality for anyway since he's outside the top 8. So this amounts to very little.

[hoppyjr]

What a shithead.

[greenlightning]

This guy is a piece of shit. Curious how Vegas fared when a big favorite loses like that

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[toxicavenger]

he needs to be slapped in his mouth

[foodle]

Curious how Vegas fared when a big favorite loses like that

Match fixing is said to occur in professional tennis.

This guy's reputation for volatility would be perfect cover for him to throw a few key matches and make a ton of money.

Although previously the fixed matches have been somewhat obvious when there was a huge amount of betting activity on an insignificant match. But with this guy being in the top 20, large bets on his matches would not be unusual.