Nick Kyrgios on injury recovery: Honesty, this is probably the best I've felt in two years.

Australia’s Nick Kyrgios has opened up about how mentally tough he has stayed during his recovery from a serious injury. The 29-year-old, who was once regarded as one of the most talented players in the country, has been out of action for nearly two years after suffering a serious wrist injury in 2022.

That injury couldn’t have come at a worse time for Kyrgios, who was going through the best season of his life when he went on to play in his maiden and, till now, the only final of the Grand Slam at Wimbledon. He ended up losing to former world number one Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the final with a score of 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–3). Kyrgios recently spoke to Nine News about how difficult the journey has been for him. The Canberra-born revealed how mentally he had to stay to ensure that he would return to the court.

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"Honestly, this is probably the best I've felt in two years," he said. "I played that amazing year in 2022. Then at the finals in Wimbledon and US Open that's when I started feeling some issues in my wrist. I had that wrist reconstruction and now I'm feeling amazing. It was a 15 miracle per cent chance that I was going to get back to playing at this level and here we are. Physically it was brutal. Mentally, I wasn't going to allow myself [to give up]. I always have wanted to leave the game of tennis myself. I wasn't going to let this injury be the dictator of if I would ever play again."

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Kyrgios went on to express satisfaction that he is once again ready to take the court next year in the Australian Open. The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up further stated that, in his eyes, he has already ‘won’, and now whatever he achieves on the court will be a bonus. "I've already won in my eyes," he said. “Now everything I do on the tennis court whether I win a match or a tournament or anything like that is going to be a bonus."