Kyrgios though could not maintain concentration. Like releasing a coiled spring, they quickly became part of the match, with umpire James Keothavong forced to play schoolmaster on almost every point in the closing stages. It did so in the fifth game of the fourth set, when Kyrgios forced a break of serve and asked for more than the crowd, who had been waiting for their signal. If anyone should have been flat, it was Khachanov, who had played five gruelling sets against Pablo Carreno-Busta, during which the Spaniard received treatment for heat exhaustion.īut the match was such that it did not take much out of either player – by the time the third set finished, the match had still not passed two hours, but it had also not yet come alive. At the end of the match, honestly I felt fine. “I didn’t end up feeling it towards the third, fourth and fifth. “Everyone is carrying a bit of a niggle right now. Just came out, I just split-stepped and just tweaked it a little bit,” Kyrgios explained. “I’ve been playing a lot of tennis the last couple months. Kyrgios too was oddly flat, complaining of a calf injury inside the first three games of the match and receiving a medical timeout to have treatment on it after dropping the first set.
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