Nick Kyrgios Out Of The Australian, Will Undergo Left Knee Surgery

A dejected Nick Kyrgios had to pull out of the Australian Open on Monday. Kyrgios had high hopes for a big run at his home Slam but a knee injury he aggravated during his exo last week Novak Djokovic.

Kyrgios revealed he has a small tear in his left meniscus to go along with a cyst.

“Obviously this coming around is just bad timing,” said Kyrgios who also will not be able to defend his doubles title. “But that’s life. Injury is a part of the sport. I guess I can draw some inspiration from someone like Thanasi who has had a bunch of injuries and has bounced back. Look, I’m not doubting I will be back to my full strength and playing the tennis I was playing prior to this event.

“Yeah, I’m devastated obviously. It’s like my home tournament. I’ve had some great memories here. Obviously last year winning the title in doubles and playing the best tennis of my life probably. Then going into this event as one of the favorites, it’s brutal. All I can do now is just look forward, do what I need to do and come back.”

Kyrgios said he feels pain in his knee.

“It doesn’t feel good,” Kyrgios said. “It’s like constant. When I finish a session or finish a match, it’s just constant throbbing. Barely had a good night’s sleep the last four, five nights. It’s just been throbbing. It’s an impact, so every time I land on serve or push off my serve, you can see on the side of my knee there’s like a little lump. That lump will eventually just get bigger and bigger. There’s pressure on my knee, obviously hinders my movement.”

Kyrgios’s physio hopes he’ll be back for Indian Wells.

“The situation now is, which we wanted to prevent him from having further injury or making that injury worse,” Will Maher said. “So now he’ll go back to Canberra at the end of the week, he’ll have an arthroscopic procedure to clean up his lateral meniscus and remove the paralabral cyst.

“From there it’s a relatively straightforward recovery through February for him, and very realistic to be back on the court for Indian Wells. It won’t interrupt his year tremendously, despite the fact it’s a great disappointment to withdraw from the Australian Open, home slam.

“The prognosis is good and he’ll be fine. We just go back to work and make sure everything is fine for him and we go again.”

It’s the first time Kyrgios will miss the Australian Open. He was replaced by American Denis Kudla.

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