{"id":98215,"date":"2025-07-28T02:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98215\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:09:14","slug":"nick-kyrgios-praises-the-incredible-talent-on-the-atp-tour-who-he-thinks-is-very-underrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98215\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios praises the &#8216;incredible&#8217; talent on the ATP Tour who he thinks is &#8216;very underrated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>After being out of action for several months, Nick Kyrgios finally made his return to the ATP Tour at the Washington Open.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to Wimbledon, where he is a former finalist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/former-wimbledon-finalist-confirms-hes-out-of-this-years-tournament-and-will-miss-entire-grass-season-after-setback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyrgios suffered an injury setback<\/a>, which saw him miss the entire grass-court season. <\/p>\n<p>Having made his recovery, the Australian featured in the doubles event in D.C., where he and partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Gael-Monfils\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gael Monfils<\/a> suffered a first-round exit.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in Washington, one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP<\/a> star has caught <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/nick-kyrgios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyrgios<\/a>\u2018 attention and looks to be playing the best tennis of his career.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2205931566-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts against Mackenzie McDonald of the United States during their match on Day 2 at Hard Rock Stadium.\" class=\"wp-image-112198\" \/>Photo by Rich Storry\/Getty ImagesNick Kyrgios names the \u2018very underrated player on the ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/k1ngkyrg1os\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram story<\/a>, Kyrgios shared a clip of a point he played with Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. <\/p>\n<p>He captioned the video: \u201cPoints like this. Low key, in my opinion, very underrated player, incredible talent, Foki v Demon Washington final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidovich Fokina is set to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/alex-de-minaur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex de Minaur<\/a> in the Washington Open final after an impressive campaign in the American capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has earned victories over Learner Tien, first seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/taylor-fritz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Fritz<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/ben-shelton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shelton<\/a> en route to the championship match.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2227057054-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain celebrates after winning their mens singles match against Taylor Fritz of the United States on day 5 of the Mubadala Citi DC Open 2025 at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center.\" class=\"wp-image-115371\" \/>Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesAlejandro Davidovich Fokina\u2019s improved results in 2025<\/p>\n<p>Before this year, Davidovich Fokina had made just one final in his career, which came at the Monte-Carlo Masters in 2022, where he lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/stefanos-tsitsipas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in 2025, he has already reached three, having advanced to the last stages of the Delray Beach Open, the Mexican Open, and now the Washington Open. <\/p>\n<tr>FinalOpponentScore<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Washington Open<\/td>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Alex de Minaur<\/td>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Mexican Open<\/td>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Tomas Machac<\/td>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">7-6, 6-2 (L)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Delray Beach Open<\/td>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Miomir Kecmanovic\u00a0<\/td>\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3-6, 6-1, 7-5 (L)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Alejandro Davidovich Fokina\u2019s three ATP Finals in 2025<\/p>\n<p>Though he has never won a title in his career, Davidovich Fokina continues to get closer and is in red-hot form heading into his clash with de Minaur.<\/p>\n<p>He has a head-to-head record of 2-2 with his next opponent, with their last match coming in the Canadian Open semi-final in 2023, which went the way of the world number 13. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being out of action for several months, Nick Kyrgios finally made his return to the ATP Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[60099,1479,6532,62,1464,67,132,68,52250],"class_list":{"0":"post-98215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alejandro-davidovich-fokina","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-nick-kyrgios","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-washington-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114928429656693259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}