"Former Davis Cup captain heaps praise on Kyrgios for being a good role model: "He spends time with them, he's talking tennis and encouraging them"

Former Australia Davis Cup captain Masur praised Kyrgios for being caring and a good role model towards many kids.

Not many people would call Nick Kyrgios a role model due to all the different things he tends to do on court that isn't really considered model behaviour. But the Australian has always maintained a sense of 'realness' to him and nobody can question whether he's genuine in everything that he does.

That is certainly visible in the loads of charity work he does back home in Australia ad former Davis Cup captain Wally Masur praised him for everything he does:

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"Nick has been living in Sydney and two days later [after the Australian Open], he was on court with a young Australian player James McCabe. He spends time with them, he’s talking tennis with them, he’s encouraging them and he is a really good mentor to a lot of these kids coming through.”

He also touched upon his Australian Open success winning the doubles event:

“I said to Nick, ‘mate, well done, you’re a Grand Slam champion’He sort of said sheepishly, ‘yeah, it’s only doubles.’ Winning that whet his appetite for more. [After] Covid and a separation for the tour, he was kind of realising what he’d missed."

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