Nick Kyrgios swaggers into his third-round match against Andy Murray here on Saturday overflowing with self-belief – and the backing of John McEnroe, who thinks the young Australian hot-shot could be “the No1 player in the world in the next couple of years”.
That’s baggage to bear but the kid from Canberra whose mother might still not be sure he is going to make it – “She’s a bit weird like that,” Kyrgios says – is not only comfortable with praise, he revels in it.
Perhaps that is because there has been so much of it since he beat Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon last year, and again when he got the better of Roger Federer in three tie-break sets in Madrid this month.