{"id":255688,"date":"2022-12-08T23:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=255688"},"modified":"2022-12-09T04:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:58:37","slug":"kyrgios-delivers-staggering-2023-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=255688","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgios delivers staggering 2023 prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios has predicted it will be business as usual in the 2023 men&#x27;s grand slams with veteran stars Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal continuing to dominate.<\/p>\n<p>The enigmatic Australian &#8211; \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/diriyah-tennis-cup-2022-draw-news-preview-nick-kyrgios-cameron-norrie-alexander-zverev\/749ca7df-eddd-486a-adfe-6ba5b1f25b77\" title=\"who had boasted he was &quot;the best player in the world&quot;\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who had boasted he was &quot;the best player in the world&quot;<\/a> &#8211; was knocked out of the Diriyah Tennis Cup singles draw by Cameron Norrie &#8211; 10-6, 10-6 in two super tiebreak sets in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios &#8211; who lost to Djokovic in this year&#x27;s Wimbledon final &#8211; was then asked by reporters in Riyadh \ufeffwhether he thought there would be a new men&#x27;s grand slam singles champion next year.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch Nick Kyrgios, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev at the Diriyah Tennis Cup from December 8-11.<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/kP5LRf\"><em><strong>Streaming ad-free and live on Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"2fb2c7f9-0a39-4952-bae6-7c75d6581042\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/2fb2c7f9-0a39-4952-bae6-7c75d6581042\" alt=\"Nick Kyrgios of Australia during day one of the Diriyah Tennis Cup.\" data-width=\"5000\" data-height=\"2918\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m gonna say no,&quot; the 27-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Rafa will win the French Open, Djokovic will probably win Wimbledon &#8211; unless I stop him, so I don&#x27;t know.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Djokovic is so dominant that unless someone really elevates their level at the Australian Open or US Open, I can&#x27;t see him losing. (Daniil) Medvedev could maybe beat him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-confirms-death-of-migrant-worker-at-qatar-world-cup-training-base-nasser-al-khater\/cd535253-7cc2-445d-8299-447f726ab01d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>World Cup death sparks &#x27;heartless&#x27; response<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/the-mole-news-2022-sandy-campbell-homeless-rugby-league-week-where-is-he-now\/a6988c12-bc8d-471c-be94-2c8759127bfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Former NRL &#x27;glamour boy&#x27; now homeless in &#x27;sad fall&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/pff-denies-cristiano-ronaldo-threatened-world-cup-workout\/d9c664d8-55b3-453e-9071-b5f1bdfe1a7e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Portugal responds to Ronaldo walk-out claims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportAU\/status\/1600978314260258817?s=20&amp;t=Vt4b5VD5utlIzoRuLFsVJA\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportAU\/status\/1600978314260258817?s=20&amp;t=Vt4b5VD5utlIzoRuLFsVJA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Look I&#x27;d love to win one &#8211; but, realistically, he&#x27;s so dominant.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His loss to Norrie &#8211; who also beat Stefanos Tsitsipas\ufeff on day one &#8211; means Kyrgios will now focus on doubles for the remainder of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Obviously, it wasn&#x27;t the result I wanted but all credit to Cam, he just played solid and I made a few too many errors &#8211; and in the tiebreak format, it&#x27;s always hard,&quot; Kyrgios said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not too mad about it. I feel like I&#x27;ve given the fans a little bit of Nick Kyrgios, which is OK, but hopefully the doubles will go a bit better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nick Kyrgios has predicted it will be business as usual in the 2023 men&#x27;s grand slams with veteran stars Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal continuing <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=255688\" title=\"Kyrgios delivers staggering 2023 prediction\">[&#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\/255688"}],"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=255688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255690,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255688\/revisions\/255690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}