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Video: Mercurial Kyrgios Unleashes the Fury vs. Coric at Cincinnati


Nick Kyrgios was on fire during his 7-6(1), 0-6, 6-3 victory over Borna Coric on Wednesday at the Western and Southern Open.

Then he wasn’t on fire.

Then he was again!

The enigmatic, mercurial Aussie ran the emotional spectrum from moody to angry to overjoyed to moody to fist-pumping to steady and victorious. We probably left out a few emojis, but you get the picture: With Kyrgios it’s never easy to tell what is going to happen, or, for that matter, WHAT JUST HAPPENED.

What we do know is that Kyrgios sandwiched some incredible shotmaking in between a very puzzling and angry second set that saw him victimized by what he believed to be a bad call (on a non-Hawk-Eye court) before he basically sleepwalked through the stanza.

But last year's Cincy Tennis runner-up returned to life in the third to improve to 2-1 lifetime against Coric and set up a round of 16 clash with either Hyeon Chung or Juan Martin del Potro.

“I knew I was always going to compete in the third set,” Kyrgios told reporters after the match. “I competed too hard in the first set to sort of just let the match slip and not compete, give myself a chance to win, at least. Yeah, the second set, when I was 4-Love down, I knew there was no real point of me going out there and competing and obviously waste energy trying to battle back against like a guy like that.”

Kyrgios had both of his knees strapped on Wednesday, and after the match he hinted that he’s not in the best of condition with the U.S. Open beckoning.

“I know that right now I can still serve through these matches, and that's enough for me to compete and hang with these guys,” he said. “At this stage, I'm just going to try and get through the US swing and then just re-evaluate where I'm at."

For now, he's alive in the draw, and tennis fans should continue expecting the unexpected from the talented yet unpredictable Aussie until further notice

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