- Kyrgios defeated the Chilean 6-4 6-3 6-6 (7-5) controlling the game with his powerful serve game
- By the third set, the crowd had started to get tired of their murmurs on the court and the Australian wildcard began to shut up.
- Although Garin tried a counterattack, Kyrgios delved into the third set tiebreaker to take the game in consecutive sets.
Nick Kyrgios is just one game away from a place in the Wimbledon final after beating Cristian Garin in straight sets.
The controversial Australian, whose crossings this fortnight have thrilled and dismayed to the same extent, reached the final four of a Grand Slam for the first time with an impressive 6-4, 6-3 7-6 victory (5) .
Kyrgios, now 27, has long been considered to have all the talent to win major tournaments, but almost none of the app.
But after beating Garin – and armed with a 2-0 victory record over the most likely final opponent, Novak Djokovic – the self-proclaimed bad boy of tennis could finally be on the verge of being good.
“I never thought I would be in the semifinals of a Grand Slam,” he said. “I didn’t do things very well at the beginning of my career and I thought my boat had sailed. I’m very proud of how things went here.”
Her career in the semifinals may have been plagued by clashes with referees, line judges, opponents, the media, the crowd and fashion police.
But Kyrgios had his best behavior, relatively speaking, on Wednesday, he even walked to Court One in white sneakers instead of his red favorites that violate the strict SW19 dress code.
Garin, the 43rd Chile in the world, had never won a game at Wimbledon before, but was lucky when his first-round rival Matteo Berrettini, eighth seed and among the title favorites, retired to cause of the Covid.
The draw opened in an attractive way for the 26-year-old, who comes from a country that doesn’t even have turf tracks, but his luck ended with Kyrgios.
However, in a strange start to the match, Garin won the first eight points to advance 2-0.
But Kyrgios, amid constant agitation and gesturing towards his area, broke the 3-3.
Kyrgios, who again took much longer in service than in his third-round win over Stefanos Tsitsipas, received the first set thanks to four unforced errors from his increasingly nervous rival.
An early break in the second, out of love, courtesy of Garin’s looser shots, put Kyrgios in total control.
Garin, on his credit, proved to be very hard to break in the third and took the distance, and it would not be a Kyrgios match without the inevitable call-up of the disputed line, this time at the match point, before a live Garin floated rubber. -stamp his opponent as a Wimbledon semifinalist.