The Gold Coast Bulletin

PAT’S SECRET TO A LEVEL HEAD

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YOU suspect that Pat Rafter (above) is asked constantly about Bernard Tomic and Nick Kyrgios. “I am always being told by people that they know how to ‘fix’ them. Bernard is not a great athlete but he has unbelievab­le hands so he just has to work harder while Nick has the talent to be number one in the world but mentally he is probably around 300.” And how has Pat remained so levelheade­d? “I reached number 20 in the world in about 1994 and thought I was pretty crash hot. I came home and my brothers said to me that if I continued that behaviour they would bash some sense into me. I changed my attitude,” he laughed.

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