ATP: Kyrgios wants to defend Tokyo title in Beijing

Nick Kyrgios and Rafael Nadal will face each other on Sunday in the finals of the China Open.The internal comparison of the two is a draw.

Nick Kyrgios came to Beijing with his wife Mama.Norlaila Kyrgios had enough opportunity to cheer her son in the match against Alexander Zverev. She was particularly pleased with the 15:40 score in the eleventh set of the second set, and a few moments later Nick had booked his place in the final against Rafael Nadal.

This year, he can still hope for the support of his uncle Toni, who seldom applauds Nick Kyrgios:”The Australian’s playground is simply not nice to watch, everything is going too fast, there is no strategy to be seen.Toni Nadal formulated it like this a few years ago, probably under the impression of his nephew’s first encounter with Kyrgios – this had happened in Wimbledon 2014, with a bad outcome for the current number one in the world.

This Sunday, Nadal and Kyrgios will have their fifth duel between them this Sunday, with 2:2.2017 they have seen each other twice, and in Madrid Nadal showed mercilessly in Cincinnati, Kyrgios had reason to cheer in the end.The 22-year-old from Canberra then reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final, where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov.

Against Nadal, Kyrgios will be able to make a historic effort to defend his biggest title to date, that of the tournament in Tokyo, an Asian capital. In 2016, Kyrgios defeated David Goffin in Tokyo’s final, and the Belgian has already confirmed this result on the spot after his semi-final win over Diego Schwartzman.

Nadal, on the other hand, has had major problems with Lucas Pouille in round one of Beijing, after his win over Dimitrov, the Spaniard is now in the final of the China Open for the fourth time – and could claim his sixth title of the year.And the total of 75.in his career.

Here is the single panel in Beijing