Actually.
Yes, actually they should have found each other long ago, the loud, sensation-hungry New York audience and the greatest showman in tennis, Nicholas Kyrgios.
Who manages to generate vibrations like no other, who can win people over but also repel them, and who owns the stage as soon as he enters it.
But up until a week ago, he had doubts it would ever work for him in the big city and at the massive Arthur Ashe Stadium.
"Half the time I can't even hear my team.
Constant flickering, sirens go off.
For someone who's had trouble concentrating his whole career, I really have to try my best not to notice it and just play point after point.” He's lucky that those from nearby La Guardia Airport take-off planes no longer thunder directly over the system every minute, as was previously the case.
As the howls and hums of those aviators vibrated in your chest.
So now it looks like find together what belongs together.
A week ago, the Australian won his first game at Arthur Ashe Stadium after years of mediocre results;
not an easy task, because on the other side was his best friend in tennis, one of the most important people in his life, Thanasi Kokkinakis.
felt limp
And on Monday night he delivered his masterpiece.
Four sets (7: 6, 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2) against the number one in the world, defending champion Daniil Medvedev, so confidently towards the end that the man on the other side could not do anything.
The Russian's hair was soon sticking to his high forehead on this sultry evening.
After looking like he could catch Kyrgios in the second set, he gradually lost touch and towards the end looked like his frustration factor was ten out of ten.
There is no question that the opponent deserved to win, he said afterwards.
However, he himself felt weak with a scratchy throat.
Like many people who didn't grow up in this country, he struggles with the cold store temperatures of American air conditioners, and usually pays for it with a cold.
But that shouldn't be an excuse.
"He also hit me in Montreal the other day and I wasn't sick then.
Today Nick played at the same level as Novak or Rafa.
And if he keeps going like this he has a good chance of winning the whole thing.” For himself it was a double defeat tonight as the points he now loses as the defending champion will confirm his place at the top have to vacate the world rankings.
Rafael Nadal now has the best chance of taking the lead, but his young compatriot Carlos Alcaraz and Norway's Casper Ruud also have a chance if they make it to the final.
"Did you like it?"
If Kyrgios grabs the title next Sunday, he will appear in tennis' top ten for the first time.
Actually hard to believe - again actually - with someone who has such an incredible touch and can drive others to despair.
But it takes a lot more to be at the top.
Consistency above all.
After ending the match against Medvedev with an ace down the middle and slapping his back with a goodbye, he met at net for the obligatory first interview and before Patrick McEnroe could ask, microphone in hand, Kyrgios asked: "Did you like it?" The answer was yes, but the older McEnroe followed up with the crucial question: "When did it click?"
He's still trying to find out, the Australian replied.
He certainly brought some of the new confidence with him from Wimbledon.
In the All England Club he played against Novak Djokovic in the final.
An event that he and the world of tennis almost didn't expect after many years of trial and error.
"I just had such big mental problems in the first six, seven years of my career.
Sometimes great results, sometimes shocking, and sometimes I didn't even try.
I just didn't know how to deal with all of this.
I beat myself up for this.
And at some point it just made me sick to let my people down over and over again.”
Be a better partner
His people.
That team with his girlfriend on top;
People who are close to him, but not a coach, as is well known.
He can't expect anyone to travel the world with him in this role, he says again and again when the subject comes up.
But for the others - and for himself - he now wants to be a better partner.
“We have all been away from home for four months now.
We don't see our families as often as other tennis players.
I don't want to whine, but sometimes it's really brutal.
In my family, children were born, my mum is sick, my father is not doing well either.
But we just have to keep traveling because Australia is so far away we have no other choice.”
And that's exactly why, says Kyrgios, he will now do everything to make up for the losses at this level with a better attitude.
To validate them in a way.
And of course he also wants to show it to everyone who doubted that he would ever get himself and things under control.
Thanasi Kokkinakis, who knows him almost better than he does himself and is more forgiving than he is, recently said he had never seen his friend play so freely.
"I'm glad that I can finally show you my talent," Nick Kyrgios called out to the spectators after the victory over Medvedev.
"It took me 27 years to do that."