Rod Laver says Nick Kyrgios will not beat Rafael Nadal

By Linda Pearce, London
Updated July 5 2014 - 11:13am, first published July 1 2014 - 9:50am

Rod Laver will have none of this talk about Nick Kyrgios as a future top-five player or major championship winner. "That's a mistake, people talking cheap news," said Laver, the only man to win the coveted grand slam twice. "Otherwise he's going to think, 'I don't have to work as hard now' and that's sort of the reverse you want him to be in. He has to try and practice even more and harder."

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