Another day and another tennis player withdrew his name from the Australian Open. As we are approaching the first Grand Slam tournament of the Year, Nick Kyrgios, who was supposed to play in his home Grand Slam, withdrew owing to an injury. And after his withdrawal, he gave his fans a little sneak peek insight into his health procedure. 

While the 27-year-old tennis player’s fans were quite excited to see the tennis player rule over the Australian Open courts. After seeing his last Doubles victory. But the excitement was only for a short time as the Tennis player won’t be seen playing the first Grand Slam tournament of the Year. 

Nick Kyrgios shares a brief insight into his injury problem 

The Wimbledon finalist took to his Instagram account to share a story about his knee injury update. The Tennis player shared a picture of what doctors found. While doing the drainage procedure that takes place before the knee surgery. 

He wrote along the story, “A little insight into what was in my knee 4 days prior, drainage procedure.” The 27-year-old tennis player’s withdrawal came 11 hours before the Australian Open began. And the story is clear proof of what the Tennis player is going through at this crucial point in his life. 

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World number 21 also claimed a few days back he is one of the best tennis players in the world. And definitely will turn out to be a favorite player in the Australian Open this year. Sadly, that didn’t even come along and stuck out because of an injury. Not only that, the Tennis player was ready to face one of the biggest tennis legends prior to the major tournament. 

Who was Kyrgios supposed to play against in the Australian Open? 

While the tennis player was prepared to face a Russian tennis player. That too, Roman Safiullin in his opening-round match at the Australian Open. But before that, the 21-time Grand Slam champion was set to issue a challenge, which he was about to embrace. Prior to the start of the Grand Slam tournaments, Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic presented the idea of having a practice match.

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If the 27-year-old tennis player accepted to the request, the two players’ warm-up match would have been there. Additionally, the Australian tennis player faced criticism for withdrawing from several domestic tournaments.