Lleyton Hewitt is determined to be the mentor of the Australian young guns after being named as the new Davis Cup team captain.
Hewitt: Kyrgios like me
Lleyton needs to give some more attention on Kyrgios development as he knows what happened when your image is not that “nice” I don’t think Nick realises how powerful his image can be. He is so good for the sport of tennis in so many ways, if he can control it to a certain line, because he brings so many different people to watch our great sport, and he does it not just in Australia but across the globe.
And in some ways, he is like a basketball player trying to play tennis, and it’s a great image for our game as long as he does it in the right way, and that’s obviously what we’re trying to put in place with him.”
Then Lleyton added “When I came out on tour I didn’t always have the best image out there either, so it’s about dealing with that and learning from the mistakes that you’ve made over time. Nick, I think, is really finding himself at the moment.
But he has massive upside as well, and I think with the right people around him and the right team around him I think he can really improve the next year or two in leaps and bounds and hopefully hold up a grand slam trophy.”
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