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warm-up event the following week. Perhaps because it is Kyrgios, the authenticity of the injury was treated with suspicion, to the point that his manager, Daniel Horsfall, hoped the doubters “now realise the injury is genuine”., it is the knee. But this time there was no room for doubt because Kyrgios had brought with him a press conference chaperone – his physiotherapist. Here was Will Maher, his personal fact-checker with the medical parlance to prove it.
Maher did a good chunk of the talking, too. He made it clear his patient’s small meniscus tear could have become “much more complicated” and adversely affect his game in the longer term had he attempted to play here. The cause is unknown, but Kyrgios had “described discomfort” over the past fortnight, which prompted the revealing MRI. They had used the exhibition match against Novak Djokovic on Friday night as a fitness gauge; he “didn’t pull up great” and became more sore with each training session thereafter.
Kyrgios said he had hope right up until Monday when a hitting session with his doubles partner and good friend Thanasi Kokkinakis made the decision for him and Maher. “He pushed me around the court a little bit,” he said. “That was more of a realistic hit of the intensity that was coming. It was easier to make the call today.”
He was “devastated” to be pulling out of one of the most important tournaments of his career, a year after the 2022 Open springboarded his rise up the rankings and run to the Wimbledon final.
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