Nick Kyrgios delivers 'miracle' injury update, targets Australian Open return
NewsFriday, 07 November 2025 at 15:30
Nick Kyrgios hasn't competed since March this year, but he has now revealed that something miraculously changed with his body.
It seemed that fans might not be able to enjoy Kyrgios' mastery on the tennis court again. He has played a total of six singles matches since the end of the 2022 season. This year, he played most of those, but one ended in a retirement, and he was clearly hurt in some of the other matches.
The Australian has struggled with both his wrist and his knee, and after missing all tournaments following this year's Miami Open, there was a real possibility that his body could prevent him from competing again. But something has changed.
Although he didn't appear at any event except the Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS), an exhibition where he served as a coach for Richard Gasquet, Kyrgios now spoke to the Australian Associated Press (AAP) and revealed that something has miraculously changed with his body.
"Honestly, this has been the first person I've told, I guess, to the media, but the last month for me has been, I don't know what's changed with my knee. Like around that Washington period (in late July), I really didn't have hope to be able to play AO or just ever get back to that point of where I felt comfortable and competing and really letting my body go."
"But something in the last month, I don't know what it is. I was with my masseuse and physio last night and something really has changed with my knee. Like it's not swelling. It's not feeling bad after a session. Then if I get through all of that, I'm ready to go. I don't know whether to call it a miracle or anything, but my knee feels like it's gotten younger by a couple of years."
Kyrgios further explained his previous struggles. The Australian described his issue as if something was "stuck," but now it has suddenly become as it was back in 2022 when he played the best tennis of his life, even reaching the Wimbledon Championships final.
"I felt like something was almost like stuck or something was just a bit odd and then now, especially the last week and a half or two weeks, I'm back moving and sliding the way I was moving in 2022. So something in my knee is just, you know I don't want to to jinx it, but something in it has gone, kind of allowed me to put three, four days of training together on court for an hour and a half, two hours and be able to actually recover and then build on that."
"So that's it's been really exciting and I haven't really told anyone. I have a new lease on life on court. "Honestly, I'm in a really good space at the moment and, physically, I've been putting in the work."
Kyrgios admitted that this sensation was still very new to him, so he didn't want to jump the gun, but if things continue trending in the same direction, he might be ready to compete at the start of the 2026 season.
"Look, it's all very raw at the moment, but I literally told my agents yesterday there's a chance that I would love to play Brisbane again in singles (too). There's no f***ing like, 'Oh, I'm gonna win this tournament'. Because after the last couple of months, I lost complete hope.
"I thought my tennis career was literally coming to doubles, whatever, but I thought that that chapter was closing, where now I'm just optimistic again. I mean, I'm optimistic with the way the way I'm feeling. I genuinely feel like I could at least give myself the chance to get there because of the training."
"That was the issue. I wasn't even able to train and build and even stack days together. It was like knee swelling, ice, rest, let's get back on court, let's do the basics. Where now it's like, 'OK, I can work on my forehand, I can work on match play, I can work on my returns'. "I'm actually working on my game rather than my body. I'm training how I was in 2022."
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