{"id":190456,"date":"2022-01-25T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T09:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=190456"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:57:41","slug":"kyrgios-brutally-honest-take-on-doubles-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=190456","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgios&#039; &#039;brutally honest&#039; take on doubles rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios says he doesn&#x27;t &quot;even worry&quot; about who he and Thanasi Kokkinakis are facing when they take the court as they near an appearance in the Australian Open doubles final.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian duo, dubbed the &#x27;Special Ks&#x27;, took care of business today against No.6 seeds Michael Venus and Tim Putz, in what turned out to be a tense encounter <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2022-nick-kyrgios-thanasi-kokkinakis-doubles-crowd-kia-arena-defeat-michael-venus-and-tim-putz\/00b98a45-56f7-465b-8900-f8db67d153ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"that was at times overshadowed by a wild crowd\">that was at times overshadowed by a wild crowd<\/a>, riding the wave to a 7-5 3-6 6-3 win.<\/p>\n<p>The wild three-set victory put them into a semi-final clash with No.3 seeded pair Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/olympic-gymnastics-champion-szilveszter-csollany-dies-after-covid19-infection\/5dd8d712-256a-4208-89cf-cdd6c82f6cf1\"><strong>Former Olympic gymnastics champion dies from COVID-19<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-news-the-mole-newcastle-knights-reece-walsh-curtis-scott\/c8fe8c5b-1b0b-4bdc-8fd8-35d176b0f980\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Junior boxing champ shock contender for Newcastle Knights<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while their run to the last four included a stunning victory against No.1 seeded Croatian pair <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2022-crowds-mate-pavic-joins-daniil-medvedev-in-blasting-rowdy-fans\/87289a9a-6bd2-4eb5-98f7-38d362b757bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic \">Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic<\/a>, as well as 15th seeds <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/videos\/tennis\/t-kokkinakis-n-kyrgios-vs-a-behar-g-escobar-australian-open-2022-tennis-highlights\/ckyqxwd6s003l0jog9f44jleo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar\">Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar<\/a>, Kyrgios claims the Australians put little preparation into their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;To be brutally honest, I just don&#x27;t even worry,&quot; Kyrgios told reporters after today&#x27;s win.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6293469863001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/01\/407300\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrgios&#x27; generous act for crying kid\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckytnxinm004t0jnwmpyqmobs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I didn&#x27;t even know who we played two days ago. I didn&#x27;t even know but when I walked out there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stream every match, every court of the Australian Open live and free on<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9now.com.au\/australian-open-tennis?ocid=nine.com.au-9now-a30468-australianopen\"><strong><em>9Now<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I just know if we play our game and we can use the crowd, use the energy, serve well, worry about us, don&#x27;t worry about the external, just control what we can control, and we&#x27;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Today we knew there was going to be some ups and downs. That&#x27;s a bloody good doubles pair we played today. They obviously had a great year last year.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6293503043001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/01\/407371\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"What Kyrgios, Kokkinakis thought of wild quarter-final\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckytvxeni00400jmgg0mkw1mk\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;You could tell they were tough. They didn&#x27;t really drop their level at all.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We played a good return game in the third. But we just concentrate on what we need to do.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We know what we do well and it&#x27;s world-class, so that&#x27;s what we&#x27;ll do again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios and Kokkinakis&#x27; path to the doubles semi-finals hasn&#x27;t been without controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios earlier this week <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/video-of-nick-kyrgios-thanasi-kokkinakis-threatened-by-doubles-coach\/081c1edd-6ec7-4433-b59e-a6a7db5dbcaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"revealed the coach and trainer of No.1 pair Mektic and Pavic wanted to fight him\">revealed the coach and trainer of No.1 pair Mektic and Pavic wanted to fight him<\/a> in the players&#x27; gym <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2022-nick-kyrgios-and-thanasi-kokkinakis-claim-upset-doubles-win\/26c8bf0f-d7e3-46f9-8af6-2e069ee1900c\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"following the Aussies&#x27; 7-6 (10-8) 6-3 victory\">following the Aussies&#x27; victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ff357bf8-3c79-4b93-accd-4d84a5d97371\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ff357bf8-3c79-4b93-accd-4d84a5d97371\" alt=\"Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia and Nick Kyrgios of Australia celebrate match point in their Men&#x27;s Doubles Quarterfinals match against Tim Puetz of Germany and Michael Venus of New Zealand\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nick Kyrgios says he doesn&#x27;t &quot;even worry&quot; about who he and Thanasi Kokkinakis are facing when they take the court as they near an appearance <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=190456\" title=\"Kyrgios&#039; &#039;brutally honest&#039; take on doubles rivals\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190458,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190456\/revisions\/190458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}