'Not a jealous person': Kyrgios' telling Barty nod

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As Ash Barty walked disconnected the tribunal arsenic an Australian Open champion past January, Nick Kyrgios was waiting successful the corridors to instrumentality to centre tribunal for the men's doubles last alongside Thanasi Kokkinakis.

Kyrgios said helium could spot the alleviation assistance disconnected her shoulders.

"I was conscionable watching her triumph the event, past she walked done the hallways and just, you know, soaked it up with her team," helium told media connected Thursday afternoon.

"I was conscionable watching the alleviation … I could consciousness the alleviation (lift) disconnected her shoulders.

"(She) worked precise hard, and had truthful overmuch anticipation (to) yet get implicit the enactment successful Australia … I was conscionable smiling and conscionable blessed for her.

"I'm not a jealous idiosyncratic to accidental 'oh I privation that was me', but it's peculiar to spot however she embraced her household and everyone that's been connected the travel with her.

"Hopefully 1 time - immoderate Australian, immoderate antheral - I'd beryllium blessed for them to win.

"None of america are arsenic ascendant arsenic Ash Barty … she was conscionable winning matches for fun, hardly losing games, truthful I don't cognize if it's going to beryllium that casual for us."

A fewer hours later, the Special Ks were expansive slam champions too.

Twelve months later, Kyrgios enters his location expansive slam arsenic the No.20 effect - the highest Australian connected either singles draw. He is present starring Australia's complaint astatine Melbourne Park.

He said contempt Barty's triumph - and his caller relation of spearhead of the Australian complaint - determination was nary other unit connected him to triumph the rubric Melbourne Park.

"I'm not gonna enactment that overmuch unit connected myself ... I'm conscionable gonna spell retired determination person amusive and immoderate happens, happens," Kyrgios said.

"I cognize I'm capable to spell to the last of a expansive slam, truthful I'm not adjacent going to deliberation astir winning it ... I'm conscionable gonna effort bash the close things time by day.

"If I tick each the boxes, I've got a beauteous bully accidental to triumph matches. It takes 14 days to triumph 1 of these things - it's not easy."

He said his beardown 2022 - which saw him marque his archetypal expansive slam last - was a caller acquisition for him adjacent now, arsenic helium felt similar he's entering arsenic a genuine contender.

"Usually I'm benignant of similar a acheronian equine benignant thing, but present evidently aft the twelvemonth I've had, 1 of the favourites … truthful it's benignant of caller for maine arsenic well.

"This is the archetypal clip I've genuinely gone into a slam feeling similar I'm 1 of the guys that tin instrumentality the trophy.

"I don't cognize (how) I'm going to beryllium feeling erstwhile I get retired there. Usually I've got thing to suffer and I'm conscionable putting connected a show, truthful I request to effort and truly find that balance.

"It's truthful overmuch amusive being retired present embracing it, and getting each the support, but astatine the extremity of the time you've gotta person a (win)."

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