Reilly Opelka is the tallest top tennis player in the world (2.11 m or 6′ 11″) and he possesses a deadly serve from that height. Reilly moves decently well for his height and he also has good groundstrokes. However, given the fact that his serve is huge, he falls under the definition of “servebot.”
What is a servebot?
Opelka has a great sense of humor and the during a press conference, he gave his own definition of what a serve-bot is.
Reilly commented:
With Isner and I were joking around about like what the definition of a serve-bot is because we were joking like if Kyrgios is considered first-team all-bot because he holds serve a lot.
The stats kind of point towards him holding a lot it’s considered a potentials first-team all-bot.
Right now it’s Isner in the first team I am first-team, Karlovic is first-team, Raonic, I think Kevin Anderson but Kyrgios makes a case for it.
But we can I came to the conclusion that servebot have to be a bit miserable to watch and he’s too exciting too fun to watch. So he does not fall into the full first team servebot category.”
In the meantime, Reilly Opelka managed to reach the final of the ATP1000 in Toronto after defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Opelka in Toronto, ranking, and results in 2021
Ranked no.32, Reilly achieved a compiled 15-14 record in 2021. Reilly is now competing in Toronto where he beat Nick Kyrgios 4-6 7-64 6-4, Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 6-4, Lloyd Harris 4-6 7-66 7-64, Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3 7-61 and Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-72 7-64 6-4.
Nick Kyrgios in 2021
Ranked world no.80, Nick played his last match on the 9th of August when he surrendered to world no.32 Reilly Opelka 4-6 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 1st round in Toronto (draw).
During this season Kyrgios has a 7-6 match record.
Reilly Opelka and Nick Kyrgios squared off just on 1 occasion. Their head-to-head is 1-0 for Opelka. When they played, Reilly Opelka won 4-6 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 1st round in Toronto (Rogers Cup) on the 9th of August 2021.
Here the video highlights.