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Anna Harrington

Kyrgios draws on Barty triumph at Open

Nick Kyrgios believes he can win the Australian Open after a breakthrough 2022 grand slam season. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Nick Kyrgios is drawing on Ash Barty's momentous Melbourne Park triumph as he chases his own hoodoo-busting Australian Open title breakthrough.

Barty broke a 44-year drought for locals at last year's Australian Open while it has been almost half a century since Mark Edmondson, the most recent Australian man to lift his home trophy, delivered in 1976.

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