{"id":80531,"date":"2022-08-14T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T15:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80531"},"modified":"2022-08-14T15:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T15:35:43","slug":"battered-kyrgios-hits-his-limit-in-montreal-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80531","title":{"rendered":"Battered Kyrgios hits his limit in Montreal loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sports Desk:<\/strong> Nick Kyrgios confessed that he had little more to give physically as his nine-match win streak came to an end in the quarter-finals of the ATP Montreal Masters on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Wimbledon runner-up lost 7-6 (7\/4), 6-7 (5\/7), 6-1 to Polish powerhouse Hubert Hurkacz after coming to the court with 15 victories from his past 16 matches.<\/p>\n

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But the Australian had little left to give as his body began to complain.<\/p>\n

“My body hasn't been feeling great the last week,” he said. “I was feeling the abdominal (muscle) a little bit before the match. My knees hurt.”<\/p>\n

Kyrgios kept the pace of the match brisk as he held his own in the first two sets before finally losing momentum in the third as Hurkacz took control.<\/p>\n

The Aussie was annoyed as his opponent left the court for a change of clothes, a delay that ate into his fragile fitness.<\/p>\n

“Obviously when you're playing and you stop for like five to 10 minutes, it doesn't help your body,” Kyrgios said.<\/p>\n

“My body was so stiff after that, I couldn't move properly.<\/p>\n

“I mean, it's within the rules. I'm not going to complain. I completely stiffened up.”<\/p>\n

World number 37 Kyrgios, whose performance this week will send him into a seeded US Open spot, added: “I'm not a machine. I'm a human.”<\/p>\n

Kyrgios won his first ATP title in three years last week at Washington and shared the doubles crown with Jack Sock, the first man in the event's 53-year history to take both crowns in the same year.<\/p>\n

“My knees were sore, my back was sore… I was trying to stay moving, but I just stiffened up,” Kyrgios said. “My body hasn't been feeling great the last week.”<\/p>\n

Kyrgios said he needs a pause before returning to the fray next week at Cincinnati in the last major tuneup for the US Open, which begins August 29.<\/p>\n

“I feel good, but the US Open still is two and a half weeks away. I have Cincinnati next week. That's all washI'm focusing on,” Kyrgios said.<\/p>\n

“I'm focusing on today, tonight, recovery, food, then just resting, then Cincinnati. That's where my mind is at.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports Desk: Nick Kyrgios confessed that he had little more to give physically as his nine-match win streak came to an end in the quarter-finals of the ATP Montreal Masters on Friday. The Wimbledon runner-up lost 7-6 (7\/4), 6-7 (5\/7), 6-1 to Polish powerhouse Hubert Hurkacz after coming to the court with 15 victories from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n