Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis retired from their Australian Open doubles match due to physical injuries, marking the end of Kyrgios' brief return to the tournament.
Nick Kyrgios' comeback to the Australian Open came to an abrupt end on Thursday night as he and Thanasi Kokkinakis retired from their doubles first-round match while trailing. The Australian duo, who had captured the men's doubles title at Melbourne Park in 2022, were facing another Australian team, James Duckworth and Aleksandar Vukic, and were down 7-5, 3-2 when they decided to call it quits. Both Kyrgios and Kokkinakis had entered the match battling physical ailments.
Kyrgios was hampered by a strained abdominal muscle, while Kokkinakis was dealing with right shoulder troubles. These issues followed losses in singles earlier in the tournament. Kyrgios, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up to Novak Djokovic, had a limited 2023 and 2024 singles season due to wrist and knee surgeries, playing only a single match in both years. His most recent Grand Slam appearance before this week was the 2022 US Open. Following his Monday night loss to unseeded Jacob Fearnley (7-6 (3), 6-3, 7-6 (2)), Kyrgios had expressed doubts about playing singles again at this tournament, stating, 'I mean, realistically, I can’t really see myself probably playing singles again here.' Kokkinakis, on the other hand, exited the singles competition in the second round on Wednesday night after losing to No. 15 Jack Draper in a five-set thriller (6-7 (3), 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3)
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