{"id":9715,"date":"2025-07-21T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9715\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:30:08","slug":"nick-kyrgios-tennis-return-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9715\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios’ tennis return confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official \u2013 Nick Kyrgios will team up with Gael Monfils at the Washington Open.<\/p>\n

The pair will link up in the men’s doubles event in DC, which begins on Tuesday (AEST).<\/p>\n

Kyrgios has not played a professional match since March, when he lost to Karen Khachanov in Miami.<\/p>\n

His most recent doubles appearance was at January’s Australian Open, where he retired alongside fellow countryman Thanasi Kokkinakis in the first round.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Who are the highest-ranked Australian tennis players?<\/a><\/p>\n

Kyrgios, alongside teammate Monfils, will take on the No. 3 seed duo of Hugo Nys and\u00a0\u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin in the first round in Washington.<\/p>\n

As the third match scheduled on the ‘Grandstand’ court, it will likely begin some time after 5:00 am AEST on Tuesday, July 22.<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Kyrgios, 30,\u00a0has battled wrist, knee and foot problems in the past few years.<\/p>\n

He suffered an injury setback ahead of Roland-Garros in May, which also saw him miss Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

The Australian will form an exciting partnership alongside the popular Monfils, who is renowned for his athletic and entertaining play style.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Frenchman toppled fellow countryman Ugo Humbert in a thrilling five-setter at Wimbledon earlier this month, in one of the most memorable matches of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe will also form a notable doubles pairing in DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s official \u2013 Nick Kyrgios will team up with Gael Monfils at the Washington Open. The pair will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-9715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715","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=9715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}