Nick Kyrgios didn’t miss a beat as he continued his Wimbledon campaign on Thursday with a confident 7-6(7), 6-4, 6-4 victory over Gianluca Mager to charge into the third round.
The Aussie, who showed off his match-fitness in a 9-7 fifth-set win over Ugo Humbert in the first round, won 81 per cent of his first-service points and struck 29 aces, among 48 winners, for victory in one hour and 51 minutes.
Kyrgios, who reached the quarter-finals in his Wimbledon debut in 2014, awaits the winner of 16th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime and Mikael Ymer.
The match against Mager had all the hallmarks of a classic Kyrgios encounter: big serving interspersed with smart underarm serves to break up the returner’s rhythm, as well as a constant dialogue between the Aussie and his vocal fans at No. 3 Court.
Kyrgios rallied those fans as Mager saved four break points across his third and fourth service games to keep pace with the big-hitting Aussie. He was in danger in the tie-break as Mager charged ahead to a 5/2 lead and held set point at 6/5. But Kyrgios stayed with his game plan, keeping the rallies short and firing big first serves to draw level before a forced error from Mager clinched him the set.
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World No. 60 Kyrgios didn’t face a break point in the match and he found an even higher level in the second and third sets. He won 89 per cent of first-serve points (17/19) in the second set to keep Mager under pressure, and claimed the decisive break at 1-1. Mager continued to fight, firing 17 aces of his own in the match, but he couldn’t halt Kyrgios’ momentum as the Aussie broke his serve once more at 2-2 in the third.
Kyrgios fired back-to-back aces to set up match point before serving out the victory, delighting fans on No. 3 Court who sang his name to the tune of Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Let’s Get Physical’ in celebration.
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