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By Giri Nathan
[vc_empty_space height="15px"]The last time we saw Nick Kyrgios he was, appropriately, going out in a five-set blaze. Dominic Thiem muscled his way back from a two-set deficit, and the Australian was ejected from his home slam, after stretches of immaculate play and at least one distressingly maculate tweener attempt. No one could deny that it fulfilled the NK promise of pure entertainment. So when's the next episode? "I take it day by day," he told me in January. "I just want to go out there and play. If I want to play, I'll play. If I don't want to play, I won't play. And my mental health and everything else—if I'm if I'm happy, then everything else will follow. I'll start playing good tennis. I'm to the point in my career where I'm not going to just play to keep ranking points, I don't really care about that at all. If I can just play and stay happy, that's it."