“As soon as I lost the first set, I just lost belief. The rest of the match was pretty pathetic”, was his summary of a match in which he failed to carve out a single break point opportunity on the Murray serve as he slumped to a fifth defeat in five tour meetings with the Briton.
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‘It was a good first set. “I managed to get the break at 6-5 but it was very tight up to that point”, explained Murray.
During something that sounded more like a therapy session than a post-match news conference, Nick Kyrgios bared his soul a bit after losing to Andy Murray at Wimbledon.
“I tell ya, this is hard to take a whole lot of positives out of this”.
His demeanour on court certainly impressed the critics.
The grass surface will suit both Kyrgios and Murray, which will make for easily the most exciting match-up of the tournament so far. “Only with a considerably bigger serve”, writes Simon Briggs in the Daily Telegraph.
He said, as he has before, that he doesn’t love tennis.
“He’s one of the best tennis players you can play right now”. Moves extremely well. He knows the game so well. It was game, set and match after only 42 minutes – and the Aussie later admitted he threw in the towel.
Kyrgios, indeed, sounded like a lost soul after the 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 beating from the world No.2, dressed all in black, his mood similarly dark.
The 2013 champion described his next opponent as “top-class” and dismissed the idea he was firm favourite.
As for how best to do that, he said every player was different. “It’s an individual sport”. I need to concentrate on my own form.
“I did a good job of that today”.
World Number Two Andy Murray withstood the challenge of Nick Kyrgios on Monday, sweeping aside the mercurial Australian 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 on Centre Court to reach his ninth straight Wimbledon quarterfinal.
‘I was really comfortable out there the first set.
Kyrgios later became angry when asked if he could walk away from the sport completely, scolding his questioner for asking a “diabolical question” and adding: “I just lost in the fourth round, I didn’t lose in qualifying”.
The 41-year-old said: “It was insane”.
“I try my best to win my matches and go deep as possible, but the matches get tougher as you progress”.
“He’s a little different but I think in order to be the absolute very best and get the absolute best out of your abilities you’ve got to love what you do”.
“Like, one week I’m pretty motivated to train and play”.
Seven-time champion Roger Federer is playing Marin Cilic on Centre Court, while Milos Raonic is facing Sam Querrey on No. 1 Court.
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The victory means Murray has reached the quarter-finals at 20 of the last 21 Grand Slam events he has contested since falling to Stan Wawrinka in the third round of the US Open in 2010. “Steve has picked up a lot of confidence in the last few weeks and he has a nice game for grass but I think I mixed it up well”.
