Nick Kyrgios has ended his three-year title drought with win in the Citi Open final
Kyrgios’ seventh career tour-level singles championship came where his sixth did in 2019 — on the hard courts of the American capital in a tuneup for Flushing Meadows.
As usual when Kyrgios is on his game, the serve led the way: He hit 12 aces and won 22 of 25 first-serve points. He won all nine of his service games against Nishioka, making him 64 for 64 in the tournament, wrapping up the week by saving all 10 of his opponents’ break points. The only one Kyrgios had to deal with Sunday came at 3–2 in the first set, and Kyrgios dismissed it via a volley winner.
“I couldn’t figure out his service game,” said Nishioka, who ranked Kyrgios No. 1 on tour in that category and also praised the 27-year-old Australian for being “more focused” than earlier in his career. Kyrgios managed to break Japan’s Nishioka, who is ranked 96th and eliminated top-seeded Andrey Rublev in the semifinals, three times — in the opening game of each set and again in the match’s final game.
This marks quite a bit of unusual consistency for Kyrgios, coming off a run to his first Grand Slam final at the All England Club, where he lost to Novak Djokovic. Kyrgios did not get any rankings points for that showing — there were no points awarded to anyone at Wimbledon — but the singles title in Washington will push him from 63rd to 37th, within shouting range of a possible seeding at the U.S. Open.
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