Nick Kyrgios blocks out numerous distractions to stay calm in win over Viktor Troicki

A CRAZED fan and helicopter noises would normally send Nick Kyrgios into a meltdown. But this was a different Kyrgios - cool, calm, composed and totally focused on winning.

Nick Kyrgios rips a forehand against Viktor Troicki. Picture: Michael Klein

THIS was calm Kyrgios.

There was the crazed fan filming himself screaming from the stands right behind him.

Cool Kyrgios.

The noisy and distracting helicopter strangely hovering above Hisense Arena for two games.

Controlled Kyrgios.

Then there was the volume of the public address system inside the stadium.

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When you’re Nick Kyrgios — Australian tennis’ prodigiously talented, yet volcanic wild child.

But this time there was no “Shut the f... up” retaliation to the fan and no meltdown over the chopper.

There was a running discussion with chair umpire James Keothavong over the speakers — “fix it, it’s not normal” — but not for a moment did Kyrgios’ on-court resolve show any signs of cracking.

The result was a straight-sets dispatching of Serb Viktor Troicki 7-5 6-4 7-6.

Nick Kyrgios proved too strong for Viktor Troicki.

Where these wave of distractions have so often seen Kyrgios hit the self destruct button in matches past, this time there was a clinical nature about him.

Brother Christos was wearing a T-shirt with “Chill Bro” plastered across it, but his 17th-seeded sibling needed little reminding.

“I thought I dealt with everything pretty well,” Kyrgios said.

“I think last year or the year before I probably would have been still out on the court right now and could be losing that match.

“It’s pretty easy to just think ‘why me?’ but the guy in the crowd was crazy, I didn’t really know what was going on.

“The helicopter; that’s when I was thinking ‘of course it’s at my match, just hovering there’. That made it tough to return, hearing the ball actually come off the racquet is a big thing.”

There were glorious around the net shots for the highlights reel, but also a ruthless serving power and stable groundstrokes on an otherwise unstable night.

Kyrgios is into the third round of the Australian Open and yet to lose a set ahead of a mouth-watering battle with his idol, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

“That was tough. A lot of things going on,” Kyrgios said.

“We had a helicopter above us for what? Three games? The mic wasn’t working for pretty much the whole match.

“It was tough to hear with the helicopter. There was a lot of things going on, a lot of adversity and it definitely didn’t feel like an Australian Open match.

“But it was a good win.”

Nick Kyrgios brings out the trick shots.

This was a win born on serve. Kyrgios did it brilliantly and Troicki struggled badly.

Troicki’s weak second serve — about 20km/h slower on average — was preyed upon by Kyrgios, who put the Serb veteran under pressure in all but a few service games.

Troicki’s backhand saved him early, but Kyrgios’ constant knocking soon opened doors and Troicki double-faulted three times in the first set, two of them coming in the 11th game he was eventually broken in.

At the other end, Kyrgios’ first serve saw him win 58 of 69 points won (84 per cent), including the first 22 straight.

Nick Kyrgios is certainly a man of the people.

By the second set, Kyrgios’ baseline winners were earning applause from Troicki and while the Serb later survived a match point to push Kyrgios to a third-set tie-breaker, his service woes came back to haunt him when it hurt most.

That tiebreak also ensured an eventful night finished on an eventful note when Keothavong was hit hard in the head by a Troicki backhand.

“It’s not my day is it? What can I do? My God,” Keothavong said.

Kyrgios used to walk off thinking the same thing.

Not anymore, it seems.