There is often a debate in tennis that who among Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic is the greatest player of all time. However, cross-sport comparisons have always been popular amongst sports fans as well.

Tennis and NBA are both popular all across the world and enjoy huge followings. Recently, the Australian professional tennis player, Nick Kyrgios, compared World No. 1 Novak Djokovic to NBA player, Kyrie Irving.

“Novak’s bigger”- Nick Kyrgios on comparison between Novak Djokovic and Kyrie Irving

In the recent episode of ‘No Boundaries Podcast’, Kyrgios highlighted that Djokovic is way bigger than the NBA player, Kyrie Irving.

“I mean, look Kyrie is huge but Novak’s on a whole different level to Kyrie. Like, I think tennis globally, is way bigger,” said Kyrgios in the talk show.

During the conversation, Kyrgios vouched that Novak would have more Instagram followers than Kyrie. He even claimed to be sure that Kyrie wouldn’t have more than ten million followers. Unfortunately, the Australian was proven wrong as apparently Kyrie had 15.5 million followers and Novak had 9.4 million.

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He then continued, “Guys, I know for a fact that Novak’s bigger. Like I know for a fact like bro, this guy is like the king of Serbia. Like, think how big that place and Europe is in general.”

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“The greatest tennis player nearly of all time”- Kyrgios on Djokovic

In the same episode, Kyrgios highlighted that while Kyrie is not even in the list of top-7 or top-10 basketball players, Nole is one of the greatest players of all time in the history of tennis.

“Kyrie, he is not even playing in the league right now. We are talking about the greatest tennis player nearly of all time. Kyrie is not even in the top-7, top-10 frame,” added the Australian player. His co-hosts subtly added the word ‘arguably’ when Nick was mid-sentence; perhaps one of them is a Nadal or Federer fan.

Novak Djokovic will soon kick off his ATP Finals 2021 campaign against Casper Ruud. Will he be able to win his sixth ATP Finals title this year and end his season on a high?

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