Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic share a lot in common as they are both very talented Australians that are struggling to find the right mindset to get to the top of the tennis world. Unfortunately for the past few years, Nick and Bernard have been displaying an extremely controversial behavior on and off the court that was heavily criticized all over the world. Tomic is in freefall in the rankings (he is now the world no.146) while Kyrgios is still ranked no.20.

I am not like Tomic

Nick is currently in Belgium where he is about to compete in the Davis Cup semi-final. When asked about a comparison between him and Tomic, he replied

“You’d also be wrong if you tried to lump me in the same category as Bernard Tomic, as Kitty Chiller and tons of others have over time.

Bernie has lost his way. We were pretty good mates when I was younger. I obviously didn’t know the tennis tour too well back then, and we were guys of similar age, representing the same country, on the road at many of the same tournaments.

But a lot has changed since then. He needs to figure out what he wants to do. I can’t relate to anything he says anymore. He says one thing, and he does the other. And he contradicts himself all the time.

He says tennis doesn’t make him happy, that he doesn’t really like the game, yet he says the only thing that will really make him happy is winning a grand slam. It doesn’t make sense at all.”