Absent from the courts since October due to a knee injury, Nick Kyrgios has officially withdrawn from Roland-Garros and hopes to return for the season on grass, he who had played in the Wimbledon final l year.
In April 2022, Nick Kyrgios made a promise: “Next year, I will go to Paris, I am announcing now that I will participate in Roland-Garros. My girlfriend wants to see Paris, so I will do Roland-Garros”. Thirteen months later, the promise fell through. The 28-year-old Australian player still suffers from his left knee, which deprived him of the ATP circuit since last October. Kyrgios, operated on for a cyst and a torn meniscus in January, is still not recovered and does not intend to resume competition by playing Roland-Garros without a preparation tournament, especially since he hates clay. “Roland-Garros should purely and simply be removed from the calendar. It’s the worst fucking Grand Slam I’ve ever seen, “he said in particular a year and a half ago, with a smile, in a podcast.
If he comes to Paris in 2024, it will then be six years since Nick Kyrgios last appeared on the courts of Porte d’Auteuil, he who has always given up coming since his second round defeat against Kevin Anderson in 2017 In five participations in the Parisian tournament, the Australian has never done better than a third round, in 2015 and 2016, where he was eliminated by Andy Murray then Richard Gasquet.
Grass goal for Kyrgios
Still 26th in the world even though he hasn’t played for seven months, the Australian hopes to return for the season on grass, a surface he loves, where he played the semi-finals in Stuttgart and Halle, the eighth in Mallorca and of course the final at Wimbledon last year, 290 points to defend (none in the London Grand Slam since no points had been awarded). He is still registered for the Stuttgart tournament, which will start on June 12. His package at Roland-Garros is in any case the business of the Japanese Taro Daniel, who will be able to enter the table without going through the qualifications. And Dominic Thiem is now next on the list of direct entrants.
