Fresh injury worry puts Nick Kyrgios’s Australian Open return in doubt Nick Kyrgios threw fresh doubt on whether he will play in the Australian Open after withdrawing from an exhibition match.
The Australian, who reached the Wimbledon final in 2022, returned to action in Brisbane last week after playing only one singles match since October 2022 following knee and wrist surgeries.
Kyrgios lost in the first round in Brisbane to big-serving Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, as well as teaming up with Djokovic in the doubles, after which he said he “felt like I had been hit by a bus”.
“I think I almost need a miracle, and I need the stars to align for my wrist to hold up in a grand slam, for sure,” he said after his singles defeat.
He had been due to play in the exhibition alongside Novak Djokovic on Thursday, but has withdrawn because of an abdominal injury.
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