Nicolás Kicker arrived in Paris in top form. The 25-year-old Argentine was an outsider’s bet to go deep into the draw of the French Open, one of tennis’s four Grand Slam events. He’d recently reached the third round of the Australian Open, earning just over US$100,000 in prize money. He finally no longer relied on his parents to support him. A few more wins would put him on course to break into the game’s top 30 players globally, his dream since adolescence. It was May 2018, and Kicker was ranked world number 84.
尼古拉斯·基克爾(Nicolás Kicker)以最佳狀態抵達巴黎。這位25歲的阿根廷人被外界認爲會在網球四大滿貫賽事之一的法國公開賽上取得佳績。他最近在澳洲公開賽上打進了第三輪,獲得的獎金剛剛超過10萬美元。他終於不再依賴他的父母來支持他了。再贏幾場比賽,他就能進入全球前30名球員的行列,這是他自青少年時期以來的夢想。那是2018年5月,基克爾的世界排名爲84位。