Nick Kyrgios has withdrawn from the U.S. Open, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) mentioned on August 10, because the Australian’s damage issues in a nightmare 2023 season confirmed no indicators of easing.
The 28-year-old pulled out of the Australian Open and had surgical procedure on his left knee earlier within the 12 months. He was crushed in his comeback match after a five-month layoff when he fell to China’s Wu Yibing within the Stuttgart Open first spherical in June.
World quantity 92 Kyrgios missed the French Open resulting from a foot damage suffered in the course of the theft of his automotive and he pulled out of Wimbledon with a wrist ligament subject that has pressured him out of New York as nicely.
“Heartbroken about the U.S. Open. Will be back … My wrist is not ready yet to compete,” Kyrgios, who has performed just one ATP match all season, wrote on Instagram.
“But may I remind people I have a protected ranking of 21. When I choose to be back, I’ll be back where I belong.”
The damage issues come after a stellar 2022 marketing campaign through which Kyrgios reached the Wimbledon remaining, captured the Washington title and made the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows.
Germany Jan-Lennard Struff has additionally withdrawn from the U.S. Open, the USTA mentioned.
Due to the withdrawals, Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta and Diego Schwartzman transfer into the principle draw.
The season’s remaining Grand Slam runs from Aug. 28 to Sept. 10.