Nick Kyrgios hits again at Tracy Austin after US icon referred to as out retirement plans

Jul 31, 2023 at 10:10 AM
Nick Kyrgios hits again at Tracy Austin after US icon referred to as out retirement plans

Nick Kyrgios has hit again at Tracy Austin after the US tennis icon referred to as him out about his plans to retire within the subsequent 5 years. Kyrgios, who was overwhelmed by Novak Djokovic in final 12 months’s Wimbledon remaining, has defined he doesn’t intend to nonetheless be enjoying tennis by the point he turns 33.

Kyrgios, 28, was in Los Angeles for the Ultimate Tennis Showdown exhibition match earlier this month and coached Frances Tiafoe on the occasion as an damage prevented him from enjoying. And on the match, Kyrgios revealed: “The sport’s crazy. The schedule is out of control. No f**king chance [I play till I am 33], there’s no way.

“There’s no chance. I’m playing till 33? Insane. I’m not playing till 33. I promise you when I’m gone, you’ll never see me again.”

Austin, who lifted two US Open trophies throughout her enjoying profession, later exclaimed: “I kind of find it sad you’re playing a professional sport and you just don’t absolutely love it. You don’t drink it up. You want to feel like you’re lucky to be out there.”

But Kyrgios hit again by tweeting: “Why am I lucky to be out there? I worked and I put myself in that position, there wasn’t any luck involved. Some people play for different things, we aren’t all tennis nuts, some of us have a little more of an impact than that.”

Kyrgios is regarded by some as one of the proficient gamers on the ATP Tour. But till his run on the All England Club in 2022, he had solely ever reached two Grand Slam quarter-finals. The Australian went on to progress to the final eight on the US Open final 12 months however hasn’t performed in any Grand Slams this 12 months as a consequence of a sequence of damage issues.

Kyrgios missed this 12 months’s Australian Open with a knee damage and was then absent from the French Open after hurting his foot when his automobile was stolen. And the big-hitting ace then pulled out of Wimbledon on the eve of the match after hurting his wrist.

“I’m really sad to say that I have to withdraw from Wimbledon this year,” Kyrgios wrote on Instagram at the beginning of July. “I tried my hardest to be ready after my surgery and be able to step on the Wimbledon courts again.

“During my comeback I experienced some pain in my wrist. As a precaution I had it scanned and it came back showing a torn ligament in my wrist. 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.”