‘My Scottish accent is coming back’: Fearnley revels in defeat of Kyrgios It is undoubtedly a little too early for Jacob Fearnley to be hailed the new Andy Murray, especially given when he opened his mouth courtside after his shock Australian Open victory over Nick Kyrgios on Monday he immediately confirmed he had lost his Scottish accent.
“I was always a bit physically underdeveloped and school was a big thing – my parents wanted me to have something to fall back on if tennis didn’t work,” Fearnley told the BBC back in October, as he moved into the world’s top 100 on the ATP Tour.
The British No 3 and world No 92 was born in Dalkeith, just outside Edinburgh, and has his late grandparents to thank for encouraging him to take up tennis at a tender age prior to his becoming a top-ranked junior and competing in the same ranks as Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner when he was 15.
Fearnley refused the temptation to turn professional and his time at college over the Atlantic has been spent studying for a degree in kinesiology as well as improving his game on the tennis court.
Having spent five years at Texas Christian University, Fearnley was asked by John McEnroe where it had gone as he joked: “It’s nowhere to be seen.
