A Nineteen-Year-Old Kid From Canberra Just Beat The World’s Greatest Tennis Player At Wimbledon
Prepare to feel inferior.
Meet Nicholas Kyrgios.
(Source: Tennis Australia.)
He’s nineteen, and polished off his HSC at Canberra’s Daramalan College at the end of 2012. Good on you, Nick!
He also likes a casual game of tennis — this lovably outdated interview on the Tennis Australia webpage says that “Nicholas is a popular figure among his peers”, and spruiks him as a prominent young up-and-comer.
Also he just beat Rafael Nadal, the world’s top-ranked tennis player, in four sets at Wimbledon overnight.
This is kind of a huge deal. Not only did Kyrgios, who’s ranked 144th and is only playing in his first Grand Slam tournament after getting selected as a wild card, beat Rafael Nadal, a guy who’s won fourteen Grand Slam titles, including two Wimbledon crowns; he did it with shots like this:
Did you see that? How did he do that thing? I almost fell over a bunch of weeds in the driveway this morning, and a nineteen-year-old’s pulling off shit like this?
You want to feel even worse? This guy was born in 1995.
1995.
If you need me I’ll be under my desk with a bucket of Ben and Jerry’s and some unresolved childhood issues.
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Feature image via Tennis Tournaments.