Nick Kyrgios

Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios (Νικόλαος Χίλμυ Κύργιος; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player.

Kyrgios was born on 27 April 1995 in Canberra, Australia to a father of Greek origin, George, and a Malay mother, Norlaila ("Nill").

His father is a self-employed house painter, and his mother is a computer engineer.

His mother was born in Malaysia as a member of the Selangor royal family, but she dropped her title as a princess when she moved to Australia in her twenties.

His older sister Halimah works in dance and musical theatre and as a voice and performance coach based in Hong Kong.

His brother Christos is a fitness trainer.

Kyrgios played his first junior match in 2008 at the age of 13 at a grade 4 tournament in Australia.

He 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.

Kyrgios attended Radford College until Year 8 and completed his Year 12 certificate in 2012 at Daramalan College in Canberra.

He also played basketball in his early teens before deciding to focus solely on tennis when he was 14 years old.

Two years later, he received a full scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport, where he was able to further develop his tennis.

During 2012 he won two junior grand slam doubles titles and rose to junior world number three, though he withdrew from the Australian Open Men's Wildcard Playoff due to injury.

In 2012, in his first-round qualifying match at the Australian Open, Kyrgios won the first set in a tiebreak, but his opponent Mathieu Rodrigues cruised through the second and third sets to defeat him.

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.

At the end of the season, he had reached a semifinal and a quarterfinal in Australian tournaments.

He finished the year ranked No. 838.

In his junior career, Kyrgios won the singles event at the 2013 Australian Open and the doubles events at the 2012 French Open, 2012 Wimbledon Championships and 2013 Wimbledon Championships.

In 2013, Kyrgios relocated his training base from Canberra to Melbourne Park in an attempt to further his career with better facilities and hitting partners.

A year later, Tennis ACT announced a $27 million redevelopment of the Lyneham Tennis Centre in Canberra to lure Kyrgios back home and host Davis Cup and Fed Cup ties.

Moving into 2013, he gained the number 1 junior ranking by defeating Wayne Montgomery in the Traralgon International final.

A week later he entered the Australian Open as the juniors number 3 seed and progressed to the final against fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis.

After saving two set points in the first set, Kyrgios won his first and only junior grand slam title.

He also won Wimbledon junior doubles with Kokkinakis.

In 2013, he started the season by playing at the 2013 Brisbane International, losing in the first round of qualifying to James Duckworth.

He then lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2013 Australian Open to Bradley Klahn in straight sets.

After winning the Boys' Singles, Kyrgios said his goal was to reach the top 300 by the end of the year.

At the 2013 Nature's Way Sydney Tennis International, he defeated fellow Australian Matt Reid in straight sets in the finals to win his first challenger tour title at the age of 17.

Kyrgios was given a wildcard into the qualifying competition of the 2013 French Open, but on 20 May it was announced that John Millman was withdrawing from the main draw due to injury; such that, Kyrgios' wildcard was raised to the main draw.

This meant he would compete in a main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.

In the first round Kyrgios had the biggest win of his career to date against the former world No. 8 Radek Štěpánek in three sets, each ending in tiebreaks, giving him the first ATP Tour level win of his career.

Although he lost to Marin Čilić in the following round, his ranking rose to No. 213.

He has also reached three major singles quarterfinals (at 2014 Wimbledon, upsetting then-world No. 1 Rafael Nadal en route, the 2015 Australian Open and the 2022 US Open, upsetting then-world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev en route).

Kyrgios is only the third player, after Dominik Hrbatý and Lleyton Hewitt, to have beaten each one of the Big Three (Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal) the first time he played against them.

Although Kyrgios has received praise for his perceived entertaining style of play, he is a controversial player whose matches have featured "epic displays of ranting, racquet-wrecking, and trash-talking".

Kyrgios confirmed in January 2015 that he would return home and base himself in Canberra.

He also donated $10,000 towards the redevelopment of the Lyneham Tennis Centre there.

Kyrgios achieved his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 on 24 October 2016.

He has won seven ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2019 and 2022 Washington Open, and reached eleven finals, most notably a major final at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, and a Masters 1000 final at the 2017 Cincinnati Masters.

In doubles, during his professional career, Kyrgios has a career-high ranking of world No. 11, achieved on 7 November 2022, winning a major doubles title at the 2022 Australian Open and reaching the semifinals of the Miami Open, both times partnering with Thanasi Kokkinakis.