Nick Kyrgios Delivers Miracle Injury Update, Targets Australian Open Return

Nick Kyrgios hasn’t played tennis since March, but he just dropped some pretty amazing news about his body.

For a while there, it looked like we might never see Kyrgios back on court again. The guy’s only played six singles matches since the end of 2022. That’s it.

This year was especially tough. Most of those matches happened in 2024, but one ended with him having to quit mid-match. You could tell he was hurting in the others too.

The Injury Struggles

Kyrgios has been dealing with serious problems in both his wrist and knee. After he disappeared from all tournaments following the Miami Open earlier this year, people started wondering if his body might force him into retirement.

But something’s changed.

He hasn’t shown up to any real tournaments except for the Ultimate Tennis Showdown – and even then, he was just coaching Richard Gasquet, not playing. But now he’s talking to the Australian Associated Press, and what he’s saying is pretty incredible.

"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."

Something Like a Miracle

Kyrgios is calling it almost miraculous. Just last month, he thought his career might be over.

"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."

He’s describing his previous problem like something was literally "stuck" in his knee. But now? It’s suddenly feeling like it did back in 2022 – the year he played the best tennis of his life and made it all the way to the Wimbledon 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."

Training Like 2022 Again

What’s really exciting him is that he can actually train again. For months, he couldn’t even string together practice sessions.

"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 admits this is all still really new. He doesn’t want to get ahead of himself. But if things keep going this way, he might be ready to compete when the 2025 season starts.

Brisbane and Beyond

He’s already talking to his team about specific tournaments.

"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."

The honesty here is pretty striking. He’s not making grand predictions about winning everything. He just wants to compete again.

"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."

The difference now? He can actually work on his tennis instead of just trying to manage his body.

"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."

For tennis fans, this could be huge news. Kyrgios at his best is one of the most entertaining players on tour. If he’s really feeling like his 2022 self again, we might be in for quite a show.