Nick Kyrgios made fairly a revelation forward of his long-awaited comeback because the 29-year-old believes he has a most of a 12 months and a half left in professional tennis.
The Australian, who turns 30 in April, had surgical procedure on his knee in 2023 January earlier than additionally surgically repairing his wrist in 2023 September.
After participating in only one event within the final two years and principally lacking two full seasons, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up is ready to kick off his comeback initially of the 2025 season. Nevertheless, Kyrgios would not count on to remain round for a very long time.
“Each time I play tennis now, I acquired to do an hour-and-a-half remedy after, like my wrist. I lose feeling in my fingers generally. It’s tingling, so I’m positively on the again finish. I couldn’t see myself taking part in for an additional, max, a year-and-a-half, in all probability,” the seven-time ATP champion said on the Nothing Major podcast.
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Kyrgios had an extremely serious wrist injury
Just after returning from his knee surgery, the Australian started feeling pain and discomfort in his wrist. After it started getting worse instead of better, he paid a visit to one of the top wrist surgeons. That’s when he realized that his wrist injury was as serious as possible.
Just recently, Kyrgios revealed some scary details about his wrist injury and surgery.
“It was a wrist reconstruction, so there was four holes drilled in my hand, and there’s a piece of string kind of holding my wrist together and my fingers looked like sausages when I got out of the surgery, I was in a cast for about 12 weeks, no movement, and I basically just had to relearn how to use my right wrist again, even just carrying grocery bags, anything was super painful,” the previous world No. 13 shared final month.
Kyrgios’ comeback begins on the Brisbane Worldwide, which kicks off on December twenty ninth.
