The day before he was slated to play his first-round singles match, “devastated” Nick Kyrgios withdrew from the Australian Open due to a hurt left knee that requires arthroscopic surgery. The Australian tennis player Kyrgios, 27, came in second place to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon last year in the singles competition. He also joined up with a close friend, Thanasi Kokkinakis, to win the men’s doubles title at the 2022 Australian Open.
“Barely had a good night’s sleep the last four, five nights. It’s just been throbbing. Every time I land on serve or push off my serve, you can see on the side of my knee there’s like a little lump. That lump will eventually just get bigger and bigger,” Kyrgios revealed. “There’s pressure on my knee that obviously hinders my movement. Yeah, the only real way to get rid of it is to open up and then just get rid of it.”
“It’s not a significant injury in the sense that it’s going to be career-threatening or anything like that,” said Nick Kyrgios’s physio Will Maher. “The situation now is we wanted to prevent him from having a further injury or making that injury worse. The prognosis is good and he’ll be fine. We just go back to work and make sure everything is fine for him and we go again.”
When Kyrgios will have surgery
In the upcoming week, Kyrgios will travel back to Canberra for arthroscopic surgery to remove the cyst and repair the damaged area. Nick is expected to be back in competitions on the occasion of the ATP1000 event in Indian Wells.
Nick Kyrgios in 2023
Currently the world no.21, Nick played his last match on the 6th of October 2022 when he beat world no.95 Kamil Majchrzak 3-6 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in Tokyo (draw).
Presently, during this year Kyrgios has achieved a compiled 37-10 record.
Nick Kyrgios |
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