Kyrgios blasts (again) 32 aces to reach the Queen’s semi

Tournament Stats

Nick Kyrgios reaches his back to back semifinal during this grass court season after playing fantastic tennis in the quarters at the Queen’s Club.

The Australian has defeated 2 fantastic players in the first 2 rounds (Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund), and he was at his best in the quarters against Feliciano Lopez (the defending champion).

The match

Both players were perfect on their serve as they were never broken  for the entire match. Kyrgios was absolutely incredible to blast 32 aces in 12 games to give not many chances to his opponent. Eventually, the contest was decided on 2 tiebreaks, and it was Kyrgios to win them both. The final score was 7-6 (5) 7-6 (3).

About his serve

After the match, Nick was asked to comment about his serve after he blasted 32 aces both against Edmund and Lopez (82 in total in te competition).  Kyrgios commented

“I can’t really remember a specific time where I’ve served at this level back to back.

I didn’t expect to serve the way I did yesterday (vs. Edmund), but I just found my rhythm early again in this match. But I felt like I had to. He was serving pretty good today.

I will never, ever go out on the practice court and hit serves just for the sake of hitting serves. I mean, I warmed up (in the pre-match hit-up), probably hit about eight serves before I played today.

“Well, I don’t even hit any serves (in practice). I always play points out of hand and maybe roll my arm over maybe five, ten times, and that’s it. My serve’s been like this ever since I was a little kid. It was my best shot. I always based my game around it.

It was one shot where I didn’t really practice much at all. I would hit maybe 10 or 15 serves a day, you know, would just relax and hit it as hard.

I used to just throw the ball up and hit it as hard as I could. I guess just one day it started winning me easy points. I was like, ‘This is better than running’, and that’s it.”

Next vs. Cilic

Nick will face Marin Cilic in the semifinal. The head to head is 1-all. They have never played on grass so far.