‘Quite disabled’: Harrowing details of Nick Kyrgios’ injuries revealed

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has endured a horror run with injuries with damning details revealing the true extent.

Harrowing details of Nick Kyrgios’ injuries have been revealed as the Aussie star continues to build towards a comeback.

Kyrgios, 29, has barely been sighted on a tennis court having last played a professional match in a first-round loss to China’s Wu Yibing in Stuttgart last June.

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Prior to that his last outing came when he was forced to withdraw from a quarterfinal contest in Tokyo in October 2022.

The Aussie star has been sidelined by a horror run of injuries and now the damning extent of those injuries has come to light with his surgeon revealing he was “quite disabled” upon their first meeting.

Dr Michael Sandow revealed the former World No. 11 was “very depressed” before undergoing a career-saving surgery.

“He was quite disabled when I first saw him,” Dr Sandow told The Canberra Times.

“Now he’s playing tennis again. If you talk to anyone in the wrist specialist world they would be quite amazed. You just don’t get these results.

Kyrgios’ injuries almost ended his career. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

“If he was playing football you could tape it up, but in tennis he’s putting huge amounts of load through the wrist, and you’re looking at a 12-month return date - he’s hitting balls at nine months. There’s no reason he won’t have a pretty normal wrist for the rest of his life.

“When I first talked to Nick, he was very depressed and looking at never playing tennis again. He had very nasty wrist instability with a tear that can create significant wrist bone collapse and leads inevitably to arthritis.”

Kyrgios opened up on the injury and said 10 months on from the surgery just being back on the court and playing is a giant step.

“This has been a really challenging time - the hardest of my career,” Kyrgios said.

“People aren’t expecting me to come back, especially after an injury like this, so I would love to do that and play again.

“The process has honestly been brutal.

“The surgery was almost 10 months ago and it’s not a very common injury, so we are experimenting how much we can push it. No one has really come back from an injury like this before. To now, being back on court, it’s pretty surreal.

“Just getting out there and playing at a decent level again would be a bonus.”

Kyrgios opened up on the challenging times. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

Kyrgios will return to Wimbledon this year with the divisive star set to return to the commentary booth for the BBC.

He is expected to appear alongside the likes of Clare Balding, John McEnroe and Tim Henman for the channel.

It comes as Kyrgios teased a big sporting code switch, suggesting he was considering stepping into the boxing ring.

Speaking on an Instagram Q&A, Kyrgios was asked if he’d ever take up boxing.

“Yeah I would, at the end of my tennis career,” Kyrgios said.

“There are a couple of people I’d call out.”

However, he ruled out calling out Piers Morgan for a celebrity bout, having cleared the air with the outspoken pundit after a heated social media stoush.

“Nah we are friends now!” Kyrgios said of Morgan.

Originally published as ‘Quite disabled’: Harrowing details of Nick Kyrgios’ injuries revealed