Rafael Nadal's slayer Nick?Kyrgios looks class on grass as Australian gears up for Wimbledon 2015 at Queen's Club

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Twelve months ago, Nick Kyrgios was a teenage punk who had the gall to upset Rafa Nadal at Wimbledon. A year on, the 20-year-old is 支援する in town with a growing feeling he can 勝利，勝つ a （野球の）満塁ホームラン，（テニスなどの）グランドスラム 肩書を与える.

While his trademark spiky haircut would probably send shivers 負かす／撃墜する the spines of some parents at Queen’s Club, where the Aegon 選手権s begin tomorrow, Kyrgios bristles with 信用／信任, 恐れるs no one and plays tennis as if he has no 疑問s in the world.

It is a 信用／信任 that not only gave Kyrgios victory over Nadal last summer but one that helped him （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Roger Federer on clay this year and he enters this week 階級d 25, 運命にあるd to go much higher. Having taken 10 days off after the end of his French Open （選挙などの）運動をする to 残り／休憩（する） an 負傷させるd 肘, Kyrgios says he is fully fit, which is just 同様に as he plays Roland Garros 支持する／優勝者 Stan Wawrinka in 一連の会議、交渉／完成する one here.

20-year-old Nick Kyrgios will 直面する French Open 支持する／優勝者 Stan Wawrinka in the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of Queen's Club

Second-seed Wawrinka will 直面する the?world No 25 and Kyrgios is relishing the chance to impress the （人が）群がる

‘It’s unbelievable,’ he said. ‘To have an 適切な時期 to play Wawrinka, after he has won the French Open, at some of the best grass 法廷，裁判所s in the world, it’s exciting. I’m feeling really 確信して. But we’ll see how it goes. I’m just going to go out there, play my game, have fun. If I lose, I lose. If I 勝利，勝つ, I 勝利，勝つ.’

Kyrgios’s relaxed 態度 is 反映するd in his style of play ― no-nonsense muscle, 大打撃を与えるing the ball as hard as he can, 特に off a 爆竹 of a forehand, the might of which Nadal can attest to.

Growing up in Canberra, the Aussie of Greek-Malaysian 降下／家系 said he had struggled to get used to the movement 要求するd to play 井戸／弁護士席 on grass.

‘I had a bit of grass 法廷，裁判所 tennis in the younger 行う／開催する／段階s of my career,’ he said. ‘That definitely helped me understand what type of tennis needs to be played on grass. But I couldn’t move on it at all when I was young. I was incredibly overweight, I just 攻撃する，衝突する the ball big, so I guess it ふさわしい my game a little bit. It’s sort of moulded my style now, so it’s a surface that 控訴s my game.’

Kyrgios played Andy Murray in the French Open earlier this month where he received 医療の 治療

Wawrinka sits with the French Open トロフィー 近づく the Eiffel tower after 敗北・負かすing Novak Djokovic in the final

Four-time Queen's 支持する／優勝者 Lleyton Hewitt is 乗る，着手するing on his final grass 法廷，裁判所 （選挙などの）運動をする

Should Kyrgios get past Wawrinka in 一連の会議、交渉／完成する one at Queen’s, he could find himself up against Nadal in the ４半期/4分の1-決勝戦, a match that will bring up obvious memories for both men.

‘It’s hard not to think about last year,’ he said. ‘But I’d like to think I’ve done a lot of good things since then 同様に which have also 上げるd my 信用／信任 and given me more 動機づけ and kept me training hard.’

Kyrgios also paid 尊敬の印 to Lleyton Hewitt, who is appearing here for the last time before he retires after next year’s Australian Open and who has been a 助言者 to the young Australian players over the past few years.

‘He has left an unbelievable 遺産／遺物,’ said Kyrgios. ‘He’s one of the greatest competitors of all time. He has gone through 傷害s where normal people would have shut it 負かす／撃墜する and has come 支援する unbelievably strong.

‘He’s a 広大な／多数の／重要な leader for us 同様に. In Davis Cup, when he trains he’s always going 110 per cent, he’s always 押し進めるing us, making sure we’re doing all the 権利 things. He has been 大規模な for all our 開発.’

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