Kyrgios’ secret to success

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Nick Kyrgios’s mum believes the Australian’s success in reaching his first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon is down to leaving his video games behind in his hotel room and getting out to see the world.

Nill Kyrgios told Australia’s Nine Media that she had seen a big change in her son’s outlook on life since the Australian Open at the start of the year.

“It was so hard for us to get him to do anything,” she said. “He was happy to sit in his room and play video games all the time. His shoulder would hurt him from how much he would play.

“In Beijing, we wanted him to walk the Great Wall of China with us. Who wouldn’t, right? But Nick wouldn’t go. He was happy to sit in his room and order in, that’s what worried me.

“I remember in Canada we said, ‘Let’s go to Niagara Falls’. He wouldn’t even go there. I actually went on my own on the tour bus. Nick wouldn’t want to do those things.”