Nick Kyrgios says he nonetheless has “fireplace within the stomach” as he prepares to return to coaching.
Australian Kyrgios missed all 4 majors in 2023 due to wrist, knee and foot accidents and has performed only one ATP Tour match since October 2022.
Consequently, in January the previous Wimbledon finalist mentioned he didn’t wish to play tennis any extra.
However talking to the Australian Open Present podcast, Kyrgios, 28, mentioned he is able to reignite his profession.
“It is arguably been one of many hardest years of my life tennis-wise,” Kyrgios mentioned.
“I’ve had some actually onerous conversations with myself, if I wish to hold doing this. So I do know there’s nonetheless fireplace within the stomach, which is nice, it is wholesome.”
After so many damage troubles, which required knee and wrist surgical procedure, Kyrgios is cautious about setting a timeframe for his return to taking part in.
His final aggressive match was in June 2023, when he misplaced to China’s world quantity 64 Wu Yibing in Stuttgart.
“I am hitting for the primary time subsequent week, in order quickly as I get again out on courtroom I assume it is simply going to be beginning up, getting that load again by my wrist and my physique,” Kyrgios mentioned.
“However I positively can be coming again. It is simply onerous to place a precise date on it as a result of the damage was fairly extreme.”
An exceptionally gifted participant, Kyrgios added that he needs to search out his enjoyment of tennis once more after such a difficult restoration course of.
In 2022, he reached his first Grand Slam singles remaining at Wimbledon, shedding out to Novak Djokovic.
He additionally received a doubles main in the identical yr as he and compatriot Thanasi Kokkinakis took the boys’s doubles title on the Australian Open.