Nick Kyrgios says he nonetheless has “fireplace within the stomach” as he prepares to return to coaching.
Australian Kyrgios missed all 4 majors in 2023 due to wrist, knee and foot accidents and has performed only one ATP Tour match since October 2022.
Because of this, in January the previous Wimbledon finalist mentioned he didn’t wish to play tennis any extra.
However talking to the Australian Open Present podcast, Kyrgios, 28, mentioned he is able to reignite his profession.
“It is arguably been one of many hardest years of my life tennis-wise,” Kyrgios mentioned.
“I’ve had some actually exhausting conversations with myself, if I wish to hold doing this. So I do know there’s nonetheless fireplace within the stomach, which is sweet, it is wholesome.”
After so many harm troubles, which required knee and wrist surgical procedure, Kyrgios is cautious about setting a timeframe for his return to taking part in.
His final aggressive match was in June 2023, when he misplaced to China’s world quantity 64 Wu Yibing in Stuttgart.
“I am hitting for the primary time subsequent week, in order quickly as I get again out on court docket I assume it is simply going to be beginning up, getting that load again by my wrist and my physique,” Kyrgios mentioned.
“However I positively will probably be coming again. It is simply exhausting to place a precise date on it as a result of the harm was fairly extreme.”
An exceptionally gifted participant, Kyrgios added that he desires to seek out his enjoyment of tennis once more after such a difficult restoration course of.
In 2022, he reached his first Grand Slam singles ultimate at Wimbledon, shedding out to Novak Djokovic.
He additionally gained a doubles main in the identical yr as he and compatriot Thanasi Kokkinakis took the lads’s doubles title on the Australian Open.
