While he has only played six matches over the last three years, Nick Kyrgios (30) has not lost hope of playing in the next Australian Open in January. The Australian assures that his left knee injury could very quickly become a bad memory.
Nick Kyrgios present at the next Australian Open? Hampered by repeated injuries in recent years and in particular one to his left knee which had forced him to undergo several surgeries and for a long time to place a serious question mark on a return one day on the courts, the whimsical Australian could defend his chances in Melbourne next January (Editor’s note: The tournament will take place from January 18 to February 1). To everyone’s surprise, as well as that of the player himself, who goes so far as to use the word “miracle” when he talks about the visibly dazzling evolution of his injury.
“Over the last month, I don’t know what happened. I was with my masseuse and my physiotherapist and something really changed in my knee (…) It didn’t swell and I didn’t have pain after the session. I don’t know if I can call it a miracle, but my knee seems to have looked a few years younger”almost hallucinates himself the former member of the Top 15 today ranked beyond 600th rank (he was 652nd this Monday) and finalist at Wimbledon in 2022, but who is obviously delighted with this practically unimaginable improvement.
Kyrgios delighted to announce that “something is missing”
The person concerned was also the first surprise to be able to train so much recently, he who had mainly subscribed for several months to suffering on the benches of rehabilitation.
“I don’t want to jinx myself, but something disappeared, which allowed me to put in three, four days of training of an hour and a half, two hours on a court and to recover well”.
To the point of now considering returning to competition almost a year after his last match, lost in the 2nd round of the Masters 1000 in Miami against Karen Khachanov. While initially, it was only a question of “Crazy Nick” finding his racket at the end of the year to face world number 1 Aryna Sabalenka as part of a new episode of the “Battle of the Sexes”, Kyrgios could therefore prolong the pleasure.
