Nick Kyrgios has been in the limelight for his majestic run at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. Being in the best form of his career, the 27-year-old became the first Australian since Lleyton Hewitt to reach the finals of the Championships. Despite being outplayed by Novak Djokovic in the final, the impressive run has made him the talk of the town.

While things look to be on the happier side for Kyrgios, that wasn’t the case a few years back. Going back in time, early this year, Kyrgios took to his Instagram handle, opening up about his darkest period. Adding on to it, recently, his brother Christos Kyrgios gave a clearer picture of his brother’s struggle to find happiness.

Christos Kyrgios opens up about the dark phase of his brother, Nick Kyrgios

Revisiting the Instagram post of Nick Kyrgios, he expressed his way of tackling the dark phase. Making a brave yet honest confession, the Aussie player admitted that he turned to alcohol and drugs in an urge to get over the unpleasant phase.

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Opening up about his way of dealing with his brother’s unpleasant activities during that time, Christos started by saying, “People wouldn’t know this but Nick and I stopped talking for quite a while. When he was going out until all hours of the morning, trying to drink his way out of his depression, I overstepped the mark. I crossed the line.”

Elaborating further, he added, “Although, in my heart I know it was coming from a good place.”

The missing sense of happiness in the ever-charged Kyrgios

As mentioned in his Instagram post, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up admitted that his loneliness forced him to harm himself. He also admitted that he had suicidal thoughts. Giving a similar description of Nick’s condition, his brother Christos admitted, “He was a prisoner in his own body, going through the motions without any sense of happiness in the life he’d worked so hard to make for himself.”

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He further added, “I’d come over to visit mum and dad’s, and Nick wouldn’t get out of bed before midday. And when he did, he was straight out the door. In four or five days, I’d see him for an hour. I missed my brother. I didn’t know this other person that he had become.”

Kyrgios suffered possibly the worst phase of his life in 2019. However, 3 years ahead, today, the Aussie is a happy man. Having his family and girlfriend by his side, he is projecting his off-field confidence on to his on-court performances.

Can the Aussie star continue his good form and make a similar impact in the upcoming hard-court season?