{"id":56636,"date":"2019-03-07T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56636"},"modified":"2019-03-07T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:32:15","slug":"rafael-nadal-wants-nick-kyrgios-to-set-better-example-for-new-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rafael-nadal-wants-nick-kyrgios-to-set-better-example-for-new-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal wants Nick Kyrgios to set better example for \u2018new generation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rafael Nadal insisted on Wednesday that he has immense \nrespect for Nick Kyrgios\u2019s talent, and his public scolding of the \nmercurial Aussie after their stormy Acapulco clash doesn\u2019t change that.<\/strong><br><br>Kyrgios\n survived three match points to beat top-seeded Nadal in three sets to \nreach the quarter-finals in Acapulco, where he went on to win his first \nATP title in more than a year.<br><br>Immediately after the match, \n17-time Grand Slam champion Nadal said that Kyrgios &#8212; who complained of\n illness, served underarm and taunted a pro-Nadal crowd on the way to \nvictory &#8212; \u201clacks respect for the public, the opponent and for himself.\u201d<br><br>Nadal\n told reporters at the Indian Wells Masters that he thought his comments\n may have suffered in translation, but his assessment of Kyrgios hadn\u2019t \nreally changed.<br><br>\u201cI never said nothing too negative about Nick, \neven if he took it more personally,\u201d Nadal said, adding that his \ncomments had nothing to do with the underarm serve, which didn\u2019t make \nhim feel disrespected at all.<br><br>\u201cI understand this part of the game\n and I think it\u2019s a good show for the game, but there\u2019s other stuff in \nmy opinion he can do better,\u201d Nadal said, adding that he feared \nKyrgios\u2019s attitude sets a bad example for younger players.<br><br>\u201cEverybody\n is free to do whatever they want, but at end of the day, in my opinion,\n he has an impact on the new generations,\u201d Nadal said. \u201cHe\u2019s young, he\u2019s\n a famous player and in my opinion we need to show good values for the \nkids.\u201d<br><br>Kyrgios, who jumped 39 places in the rankings to 33 in the world, said last week he wasn\u2019t interested in Nadal\u2019s opinion.<br><br>\u201cI\n heard that he took it very personally. I really didn\u2019t see it but \nsomebody told me he put some stuff on his social networks,\u201d said Nadal, \nthe second seed in an Indian Wells field headed by world number one \nNovak Djokovic.<br><br>Djokovic thrashed Nadal in the Australian Open \nfinal in January, but Nadal said he\u2019s found plenty of positives in the \nearly season despite failing to bag a title so far in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal insisted on Wednesday that he has immense respect for Nick Kyrgios\u2019s talent, and his public scolding of the mercurial Aussie after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56638,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56636\/revisions\/56638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}