Last 12 months’s Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of the event with a wrist harm, the Australian mentioned on Sunday earlier than the beginning of the grasscourt grand slam on Monday.
“I’m really sad to say that I have to withdraw from Wimbledon this year,” the 28-year-old wrote on Instagram.
“I tried my hardest to be ready after my surgery and to be able to step on the Wimbledon courts again.
“During my comeback, I experienced some pain in my wrist during the week of Mallorca. As a precaution I had it scanned and it came back showing a torn ligament in my wrist.
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“I tried everything to be able to play and I am disappointed to say that I just didn’t have enough time to manage it before Wimbledon.”
Kyrgios had surgical procedure on his left knee earlier this 12 months and misplaced in his comeback match after a five-month layoff in opposition to China’s Wu Yibing within the Stuttgart Open first spherical final month.
He missed the French Open as a result of a foot harm he sustained throughout the theft of his automotive.
Kyrgios additionally withdrew from occasion in Halle and Mallorca.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com