Bizarre injury behind Kyrgios' Roland-Garros withdrawal

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Nick Kyrgios' cause has revealed a ft wounded sustained during the theft of his car is the crushed for his Roland-Garros withdrawal, alternatively than his troublesome knee.

Kyrgios officially pulled retired of his 2nd expansive slam tourney for the calendar year earlier this week, with galore assuming his genu had not recovered from country successful time.

However, his agent, Daniel Horsfall, revealed Kyrgios suffered a laceration successful his near ft during the "high-adrenaline rush" of having his car stolen and his parent held astatine gunpoint astatine his family's Canberra location earlier this month.

"During the incidental connected May 1, they had the equipped robbery astatine the house," helium said.

Nick Kyrgios and his agleam greenish Tesla that was stolen earlier this period (Instagram/Nick Kyrgios)

"With each the worldly that was going connected Nick lacerated the broadside of his near foot. We don't cognize how.

"Basically, it's conscionable acceptable him backmost astir two-and-a-half weeks successful presumption of his loading docket to get backmost connected tribunal for what we thought was going to beryllium the expansive slam."

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Kyrgios was forced to retreat from the Australian Open conscionable days retired from the tourney owed to a genu wounded that required surgery. Horsfall said the 28-year-old's genu has recovered good successful the months that person followed.

"His knee, arsenic acold arsenic we're concerned, is really successful fantastic shape, the country went well," helium said.

Kyrgios, presently the satellite No.25, has not played successful a tourney since past October and has not played astatine Roland-Garros since his second-round exit successful 2017.

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