As we watch the excitement of Wimbledon unfold we have also been able to get to know our Australian players on a more personal level.

With each tournament that passes I feel like we can gain a better insight into the tennis world and see how the games bring out the best, or worse, in our players.

There has been huge media interest in 20-year-old Nick Kyrgios, not only for his excellent skills, but also for his behaviour on and off the court. Nick’s feisty attitude has raised eyebrows from tennis supporters, players and officials. Throwing tennis racquets, arguing with the umpires and getting angry with supporters are just a couple of actions that has seen him labelled as the ‘brat’ of tennis. Nick has openly stated that he ‘doesn’t love tennis’ and claims his parents encouraged/pushed him into the sport. And I think it shows. He seems to be more caught up with the celebrity status and the worldwide attention he receives rather than focusing on representing his country.

The other member of ‘team bad boy’ is Bernard Tomic, who has just recently been dumped from the Davis Cup team for disrespecting Australian tennis legend Pat Rafter and Tennis Australia. Tomic was given the chance to apologise for his attack of words but he refused, leaving Tennis Australia no choice but to drop him for the tournament. Tomic has always had a bit of an attitude problem and has lost a lot of support from Australian tennis fans as a result.

I think there is an obvious issue there when we don’t feel guilty for supporting the opposition instead of our representatives…

On the other end of the racquet we have young gun Thanasi Kokkinakis whose humble, happy and exciting playing style has him doing Australia proud. Whether the 19-year-old wins or loses we are behind him because he tries his best and his sportsmanship makes him a pleasure to watch.

Along with Thanasi on ‘team awesome’ we have the likes of speedy server Sam Groth, Casey Dellacqua, Sam Stosur and of course our tennis pin up boy Lleyton Hewitt.

Hewitt was definitely feisty back in the day- but in all the right ways. He was passionate about his game, exciting to watch and highlighted Australia on the tennis map. Hewitt is still the youngest male ever to be ranked No. 1 in the world in singles, at the age of 20. Not to mention he started the catch phrase ‘COME ONNNN’ which is now used by pretty much everyone.

I think more and more people are jumping on the tennis supporting bandwagon and I’m sure everyone has their favourite players, for one reason or another. May it be the over the top and fiery Kyrgios, or the inspirational youngster Kokkinakis.

No matter which team we are on, I think we can all agree that Australia is producing some exceptionally talented tennis players and I’m excited to see how far they can go.