Nick Kyrgios admits being away from tennis over an extended time period isn’t one thing that basically depresses him because the Australian tennis star reveals he used this 12 months to get pleasure from another superb issues. After a career-best season in 2022, 28-year-old Kyrgios suffered a knee damage within the offseason and was pressured to overlook the Australian Open and all Australia occasions in 2023 January.

Kyrgios then determined to have a knee surgical procedure and returned to motion in June in Stuttgart, the place he appeared in only one match earlier than struggling a wrist damage and lacking the remainder of the 2023 season. Final week, Kyrgios sadly confirmed that he additionally will not be prepared for the beginning of the 2024 season and the Australian Open.

However whereas sidelined, Kyrgios has gotten to get pleasure from another issues.

Kyrgios on his time away from tennis

“This can be a powerful one for me as a result of after I step away from the game for thus lengthy, I truly do not miss it. In order that’s scary for me.

You understand, most athletes, once they get pulled away from their sport damage or take time without work, they’re like actually hungry to get again with me. It is like, I’ve at all times type of identified that life has so many…so many cool issues about it, you recognize, and tennis, you recognize, we’re touring seven, eight months a 12 months.

I barely see my household, my pals. And through this time, it is like, I get to see, spend time with my companion extra, my household, do all this stuff that I have been lacking out on. It is like, wow, this, my life’s superb now, however you recognize, I do miss enjoying tennis a bit, you recognize, it is all I’ve ever identified since I used to be seven years previous, you recognize, my household loves it, you recognize, all my pals, you recognize, know me as Nick Kyrgios, tennis participant.

So I do miss it somewhat bit, however on the identical time, I’ve actually loved the time without work,” Kyrgios mentioned On Objective with Jay Shetty.