Nick Kyrgios signed up for the Kooyong Classic on Tuesday in a signal that the injury-wracked star is planning a competitive comeback at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
The mercurial Australian has not played on the ATP Tour since March and barely at all in three years after a series of career-threatening knee and wrist surgeries.<\/p>\n
But the 30-year-old showman has added the three-day Kooyong Classic in Melbourne on January 13th to 15th to his schedule, a traditional hardcourt warm-up event for the Australian Open starting three days later.<\/p>\n
World No.8 Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, the 11th-ranked Alexander Bublik<\/a> and newly crowned Italian Davis Cup heroes Flavio Cobolli<\/a> and Matteo Berrettini<\/a> will also play.<\/p>\n Kyrgios<\/a> has several other exhibition events lined up beforehand, including the 2025 World Tennis League in India in December and a hyped “Battle of the Sexes” showdown in Dubai against women’s world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios told reporters his long-term knee injury had suddenly improved, sparking hopes of a “miracle” comeback.<\/p>\n “It’s not swelling. It’s not feeling bad after a session,” he said.<\/p>\n “I don’t know whether to call it a miracle or anything, but my knee feels like it’s gotten younger by a couple of years.”<\/p>\n Kyrgios, who has slid to 666 in the world, would need a wildcard to play the Australian Open, but would almost certainly get one given his huge draw power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios signed up for the Kooyong Classic on Tuesday in a signal that the injury-wracked star is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-307222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}