Australian tennis participant Nick Kyrgios has stated he hopes to tug the curtain down on his tennis profession “a bit bit extra gracefully” than Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray had been capable of.
The Brit retired from the game this summer time on the Paris Olympics however had come near leaving the game in 2019 on the again of a hip harm that noticed him bear a number of main surgical procedures. Since 2019, he did not make it previous the third-round of a Grand Slam whereas his final Grand Slam triumph got here in 2016.
Like Murray, the tail-end of Nadal’s profession has been ridden by harm. The Spaniard is ready to retire subsequent month on the Davis Cup in Malaga and within the video asserting his retirement, he referenced the difficulties he is confronted with accidents within the final couple of years as a key issue behind his determination.
The 22-time Grand Slam champion used numbing injections to get by way of the 2022 French Open and has additionally confronted struggles with stomach accidents.
Kyrgios, who hasn’t performed competitively since 2023, stated he hopes his exit is smoother.
“I have a look at how Andy Murray’s doing it now, and the way Rafael [Nadal] goes out, I do not need to be like that both. I do not need to be form of crawling to the end line in a way,” Kyrgios stated on The Louis Theroux podcast.
“What Andy Murray’s achieved on this sport is second to principally no-one … except you might be Novak [Djokovic], [Roger] Federer, or Nadal, like, the subsequent individual is Andy Murray.
“It is such as you’ve achieved every part. You need to exit, I believe, a bit bit extra gracefully than he is accomplished.
“I believe that the surgical procedures, the ache, it is simply not value it, in my view.”