Fans are getting greater than they bargained for with Nick Kyrgios due to Netflix’s new collection, Break Point.
Released worldwide on January 13, the collection provides followers a peak backstage into the world of tennis’ celebrity gamers.
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Divisive Aussie Kyrgios is the focus for the opening episode which reveals off a facet of him we’ve by no means seen earlier than.
But it was one act throughout final 12 months’s Australian Open that left his girlfriend Costeen Hatzi reeling in disgust.
After his singles marketing campaign got here to an finish by the hands of Daniil Medvedev, Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis took the match by storm as they teamed up in doubles and stormed their solution to Grand Slam glory.
But after their rousing semi-final victory in straight units towards the three seeds, Kyrgios was pulled apart for a random drug take a look at.
That’s when the problems started.
Hatzi was left explaining what was unfolding to the digital camera crews as she stood outdoors the gamers health club ready for her boyfriend to emerge.
“They’re just doing a urine test,” Hatzi mentioned. “He’s like 30ml under, so he has to keep drinking water.”
The two are then seen on the telephone collectively by way of FaceTime with the Aussie star slamming again drinks to try to up his fluids.
“You need to just scull the water,” Hatzi says.
Kyrgios responds: “I’m trying baby. I’ve sculled two waters, one pepsi, one juice. I’m trying.”
But it’s then that Kyrgios leaves her horrified as he flips his digital camera round to point out off his urine pattern which is under the required quantity.
Hatzi couldn’t consider what she’d been proven as she exclaimed: “Ew, don’t show me the pee!”
Kyrgios responded: “I’m doing my best, I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
Hatzi hangs up the telephone earlier than turning to the digital camera and signing off with: “Yeah, he definitely needs to drink more water, because it wasn’t looking too good.”
The collection confirmed when life modified for Kyrgios together with his supervisor revealing the jarring lengths he beforehand needed to go to.
In an emotional dialog together with his associate, Kyrgios admits these early years modified his outlook on the sport.
“The first four or five years of my career was just so chaotic,” an emotional Kyrgios says to Hatzi.
“When Horse (manager Daniel Horsfall) was on tour with me, when it was basically just him looking after me, he could just see my wellbeing just declining every week. My life was spiralling out of control – drinking every single night. I was like, ‘I can’t keep doing this. I have to be kinder to myself’.
“For my mental health, I could never be one of those players again that plays all year round. I couldn’t do that. I value my family, my close, close friends and Cossie too much to put tennis in front of that any more. I don’t think that’s healthy.
“I don’t really have expectations now in my matches any more. I just want to go out there, have fun, take the pressure off, and then we can try and live a more normal life. It’s much better like this, that’s for sure.”
Kyrgios’ supervisor and longtime good friend Horsfall reveals the jarring lengths he needed to undergo to trace him down.
“I used to have your location on my phone,” Horsfall says.
“On some mornings, I would physically have to go and find where you were. What hotel you were staying at, whose house you were staying at. Before tournaments … before a match.”
