“I attempted my hardest to be prepared after my surgical procedure and to have the ability to step on the Wimbledon courts once more,” stated the Australian participant
By:
Kimberly Rodrigues
Australian tennis participant Nick Kyrgios, who reached the Wimbledon closing final yr, introduced on Sunday (02) that he could be withdrawing from this yr’s event attributable to a wrist damage.
Kyrgios shared the information simply earlier than the beginning of the grass-court grand slam, scheduled to start on Monday (03). “I’m actually unhappy to say that I’ve to withdraw from Wimbledon this yr,” the 28-year-old wrote on Instagram.
“I attempted my hardest to be prepared after my surgical procedure and to have the ability to step on the Wimbledon courts once more.
“Throughout my comeback, I skilled some ache in my wrist through the week of Mallorca. As a precaution I had it scanned and it got here again displaying a torn ligament in my wrist.
“I attempted the whole lot to have the ability to play and I’m upset to say that I simply didn’t have sufficient time to handle it earlier than Wimbledon.”
Kyrgios had a surgical procedure on his left knee earlier this yr and misplaced in his comeback match after a five-month layoff in opposition to China’s Wu Yibing within the Stuttgart Open first spherical final month.
He missed the French Open attributable to a foot damage he sustained through the theft of his automotive.
Kyrgios additionally withdrew from occasion in Halle and Mallorca.
(Reuters)
