Australian tennis participant Nick Kyrgios has stated he hopes to drag the curtain down on his tennis profession “a bit of bit extra gracefully” than Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray have been capable of.
The Brit retired from the game this summer season on the Paris Olympics however had come near leaving the game in 2019 on the again of a hip damage that noticed him bear a number of main surgical procedures. Since 2019, he did not make it previous the third-round of a Grand Slam whereas his final Grand Slam triumph got here in 2016.
Like Murray, the tail-end of Nadal’s profession has been ridden by damage. The Spaniard is ready to retire subsequent month on the Davis Cup in Malaga and within the video asserting his retirement, he referenced the difficulties he is confronted with accidents within the final couple of years as a key issue behind his resolution.
The 22-time Grand Slam champion used numbing injections to get by means of the 2022 French Open and has additionally confronted struggles with stomach accidents.
Kyrgios, who hasn’t performed competitively since 2023, stated he hopes his exit is smoother.
“I take a look at how Andy Murray’s doing it now, and the way Rafael [Nadal] goes out, I do not wish to be like that both. I do not wish to be sort of crawling to the end line in a way,” Kyrgios stated on The Louis Theroux podcast.
“What Andy Murray’s achieved on this sport is second to principally no-one … until you’re Novak [Djokovic], [Roger] Federer, or Nadal, like, the subsequent particular person is Andy Murray.
“It is such as you’ve achieved every little thing. You should exit, I believe, a bit of bit extra gracefully than he is completed.
“I believe that the surgical procedures, the ache, it is simply not value it, in my view.”
