Nick Kyrgios suffered a defeat in his first singles match in a yr and a half after falling quick to Andrey Rublev on the World Tennis World.
On Friday, the Australian made a profitable comeback in Abu Dhabi after he and Jasmine Paolini received their combined doubles match towards Denis Shapovalov and Caroline Garcia 7-5.
Nick Kyrgios and Jasmine Paolini© World Tennis League/Instagram – Truthful Use
Then, he stayed on the courtroom for the deciding match of the Staff Kites and Staff Falcons tie. However sadly, he didn’t additionally register victory in singles as Rublev earned a 6-4 win to additionally seal a 24-21 triumph for the Falcons over the Kites.
Throughout the match, Kyrgios regarded a bit rusty in a few of his pictures – whereas he managed to win 70 p.c of his first serve level, he additionally had simply two aces – which isn’t actually his typical ace stat by a set.
For the previous world No. 13, it was his first singles match since he was crushed by Wu Yibing within the 2023 Stuttgart first spherical in 2023 June.
On the opposite aspect, Rublev served exceptionally – he fired 4 aces and received 73 p.c of his first serve factors.
How Rublev noticed off Kyrgios on the World Tennis League?
The third sport of the match went to deuce – and on the Tennis World League – there isn’t any benefit however a deciding level proceeds when the rating is 40/40.
And the Russian tennis star stepped as much as win the purpose and go 2-1 up.
Within the subsequent six video games, not a single break level was seen as Rublev led 5-4.
With the world No. 8 serving for the match, Kyrgios managed to earn his first two break factors. Sadly for the Australian, he did not convert the primary and likewise missed out on his second break level which got here on a deciding level.
The 29-year-old could have misplaced to the Russian however it was nonetheless a stable return since he was a minimum of in a position to triumph in combined doubles.
