According to the BBC on Saturday, Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios of Canberra, will not play the 2024 Australian Open because of various injury issues. The Wimbledon finalist from 2022 only played one match last year because of foot, knee and wrist injuries. The foot injury came while trying to protect his mother during a family robbery.
Kyrgios’s lone match in 2023 came in the first round of the Stuttgart Open. There he lost to Yibing Wu of China, by a score of 7-5, 6-3. Kyrgios lost despite having 15 aces.
There are rumours that Kyrgios is considering retirement. However, that seems unlikely as he is only 28 years of age. He has a protected ranking of number 21, which will allow him to return to tennis at a high level when he does decide to return.
Kyrgios has won seven ATP titles during his career. They came at the 2016 Open 13 in Marseille, the 2016 Atlanta Open, the 2016 Japan Open, the 2018 Brisbane International, the 2019 Mexican Open, and the 2019 and 2022 Washington Open.
Kyrgios’s withdrawal from the Australian Open in singles, also means he will not play in doubles with Thanasi Kokkinakis of Adelaide, Australia. Kyrgios and Kokkinakis teamed up to win the 2022 Australian Open doubles final. There they beat the Australian men’s duo of Matthew Ebden of Perth and Max Purcell of Sydney, 7-5, 6-4. It was one of three men’s doubles titles for Kyrgios in 2022. He also teamed up with Kokkinakis to beat the Australian men’s doubles team of Jason Kubler of Brisbane, and John Peers of Melbourne, 7-6, 7-5 in the final of the Atlanta Open, and then teamed up with Jack Sock of the United States to beat Croatia’s Ivan Dodig and American Austin Krajicek 7-5, 6-4 in the final of Washington Open.
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