How the tennis community honored Kobe Bryant at the AO2020.
Nick Kyrgios appeared overcome with emotion when he arrived at his singles match against Rafael Nadal. The Australian player even wore Kobe's Los Angeles Lakers jersey during his warmup. Nickin a press conference following the match:"I've been following it for as long as I can remember, so obviously when I woke up to the news I was pretty emotional. It was pretty heavy all day." When asked if the news at all distracted him, Nick said,"If anything it motivated me.
If you look at the things he stood for and what he wanted to be remembered by, I felt like if anything it helped me tonight.". Wearing a Lakers cap, Rafael said,"What can I say? I woke up this morning with this terrible news. Super sad. He had been one of the greatest sportsman in the history." He added,"He had been a true inspiration for the world of sports and for a lot of kids.
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