Kyrgios hints at a return to the courts in a month’s time
The Australian has played just one match since the Tokyo tournament in 2022, a first-round defeat in Stuttgart in June 2023, due to a knee injury
Nick Kyrgios in LA (Thierry Breton/Panoramic)
Since the end of 2022, and a quarter-final appearance at the US Open, Nick Kyrgios hasn’t really been a tennis player. Largely handicapped by a knee injury, the Australian was only seen once on the courts in 2023, a first-round loss to Wu Yibing in Stuttgart. Since then, the 28-year-old has not played a single official match.
He withdrew for the second year running at the Australian Open, a decision Kyrgios described at the time as “heartbreaking”. Two months later, the Australian may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. On Instagram, he launched a Q&A and a fan asked him when he’d be back.
“I’ll be hopefully back on court in a month if all goes well,” he replied. It remains to be seen whether he’s talking about a return to tournaments or to the practice courts.
Commentator for Eurosport at the Australian Open, the Canberra native no longer has an ATP ranking, although he does still have the ability to enter tournaments using his protected ranking.
“I only want to play for about another one to two years and be at the top and go down my own terms,” the Australian also confided in a podcast last December.
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