NY Times · Sep 7, 2022
Nick Kyrgios’s U.S. Open Run Ends One Match After Beating the Top Seed
Nick Kyrgios of Australia throwing his racket during his quarterfinal match against Karen Khachanov of Russia. He slammed another one after the match.Credit...Jason Szenes/EPA, via ShutterstockFor the third consecutive day, one of the top-seeded men or a heavy favorite exited the 2022 U.S. Open.
In a match that began Tuesday night and ended in the small hours Wednesday morning, Nick Kyrgios lost to Karen Khachanov of Russia in five sets in a duel between two of the hardest hitters in the game, but also two players whose minds have often gotten in the way of the success that so many predicted for them when they were teenagers.