{"id":633854,"date":"2026-06-11T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633854\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:37:10","slug":"nick-kyrgios-return-to-tour-action-ends-in-second-round-in-stuttgart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633854\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios&#8217; return to tour action ends in second round in Stuttgart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Kyrgios&#8217; return to action at the Stuttgart Open ended with a second-round loss to Japanese qualifier Sho Shimabukuro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyrgios, 31, secured his first tour-level win since March 2025 by defeating eighth seed Corentin Moutet in his opening match in Germany on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was his first singles match since losing in the first round in Brisbane on 5 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wimbledon 2022 runner-up Kyrgios, who has struggled with knee and wrist injuries in recent years, received a wildcard for the grass-court tournament in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made a promising start, taking the the opening set against Shimabukuro, but his 104th-ranked opponent edged a second-set tie-break and went on to clinch a 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was no play at the Queen&#8217;s Club in London on Thursday because of bad weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios&#8217; return to action at the Stuttgart Open ended with a second-round loss to Japanese qualifier Sho&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-633854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}