{"id":38375,"date":"2024-11-15T01:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-to-return-in-brisbane-hopes-to-play-aussie-open\/15\/11\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T01:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:45:57","slug":"nick-kyrgios-to-return-in-brisbane-hopes-to-play-aussie-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-to-return-in-brisbane-hopes-to-play-aussie-open\/15\/11\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios to return in Brisbane, hopes to play Aussie Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BRISBANE, Australia &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nick Kyrgios<\/a> says he will make a return to competitive tennis at the Brisbane International beginning Dec. 29 after playing only one ATP Tour match in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Kyrgios has been mostly sidelined with career-threatening wrist and knee injuries since the 2022 US Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>That run came six weeks after reaching the Wimbledon final, when he came closest to winning a Grand Slam singles championship before losing in four sets to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/42387231\/jannik-sinner-lands-semifinals-fritz-win-vs-de-minaur\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Also stating his intentions to play in the 2025 Australian Open in Melbourne, Kyrgios said he&#8217;s planning to compete in the World Tennis League exhibition event in Abu Dhabi from Dec. 19-22, with the mixed team event also attracting players such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Casper Ruud<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taylor Fritz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios was a late withdrawal from the Australian Open in 2023 due to a knee injury that required surgery, before having to pull out of the French Open later that year with a foot issue.<\/p>\n<p>A winner of seven titles on the ATP Tour, Kyrgios subsequently tore a ligament in his wrist that also needed surgery with his last tour match a short-lived return to grass at Stuttgart in June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Currently unranked, the one-time 13th-ranked player said he was excited to resume his career in front of home fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, this is probably the best I&#8217;ve felt in two years,&#8221; he told a Melbourne television station Friday. &#8220;I played that amazing year in 2022. Then at the finals in Wimbledon and US Open, that&#8217;s when I started feeling some issues in my wrist. I had that wrist reconstruction and now I&#8217;m feeling amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/42396022\/nick-kyrgios-return-brisbane-hopes-play-aussie-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISBANE, Australia &mdash; Nick Kyrgios says he will make a return to competitive tennis at the Brisbane International beginning Dec. 29 after<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-to-return-in-brisbane-hopes-to-play-aussie-open\/15\/11\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1847,3749,567,2999,631,725,175,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38377,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38375\/revisions\/38377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}