What a great year for Nick Kyrgios!
The 19-year-old wins the Newcombe Medal for the most outstanding player in 2014.
Nick is the youngest medalist and he was joined by Sam Stosur and Lleyton Hewitt on the stage.
Newcombe: He had a fantastic year
It was the tennis legend to give the award “Nick Kyrgios just had a fantastic year. Nobody could have expected him to have as good a year as he had.
We were all excited when he won a couple of Challenger events earlier in the year, then all of a sudden, boom, he jumped on to the world stage at Wimbledon, saving match points against Richard Gasquet and taking out Nadal in a brilliant fashion and getting through to the quarter-finals.”
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Nick: It’s an absolute honor
The teenager was the first one to be absolutely surprised “I didn’t think my name was going to be called out tonight. They all had such good years. It is an absolute honor.”
Nick is now ranked no.52 and he will try to break in the top20 next year.
Has anybody seen Bernard Tomic around? Bernard Who?
My baby won Newk Medal!! My heart is still beating so fast ,,,fantastic thanks to everyone.
— nill kyrgios (@nillkyrgios) November 24, 2014
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— GSC Management Group (@GSCTennis) November 24, 2014
