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Nick Kyrgios penned a heartfelt message to express gratitude towards his parents, stating he wouldn't have been the person he ended up becoming had it not been for them. The Aussie is eyeing a return to tennis in the 2025 season.
Kyrgios has been out of action for over a year as he has been struggling with various injuries in his knee and wrist. However, the Aussie has announced that he will be making his return to tennis very soon and is also eyeing to clinch a singles Grand Slam, an accolade he fell one step short of at Wimbledon in 2022 after being defeated by Novak Djokovic in the finals.
The 29-year-old is active on social media and is often seen posting some highlights from his life or interacting with fans. Recently, the Aussie shared an emotionally charged message for his parents Giorgos and Norlaila on Instagram, thanking them for their 'constant support' and for staying patient with him.
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"None of this would be possible without your constant support….. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if you didn’t stay patient with me. I love you both," Nick Kyrgios wrote.
Nick Kyrgios' father is from Greece while his mother was a part of the Selangor Royal Family of Malaysia, giving the Aussie, who was born in Canberra, Greek-Malaysian origins.
Kyrgios recently said how he wanted to go on a high and give the fans a taste of his peak.
"I don't want to be kind of crawling to the finish line" - Nick Kyrgios discusses how he doesn't want to end his career like Andy Murray or Rafael Nadal
Nick Kyrgios recently appeared on The Louis Theroux Podcast where he said how he didn't want to end his career in the manner that Rafael Nadal is about to and Andy Murray did. While the Spaniard will hang up his racket at the Davis Cup Finals this year, the Brit called it quits after his run at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"I look at how Andy Murray’s doing it (retirement) now, and how Rafael [Nadal] is going out, I don’t want to be like that either, I don’t want to be kind of crawling to the finish line in a sense," Nick Kyrgios said (at 1:03:48).
The Aussie praised the Brit highly but felt that an athlete with his tennis resume should've quit the sport when he was at the top. He thought that the surgeries and rehab he went through were 'not worth it'.
"What Andy Murray’s achieved in this sport is second to basically no one, like, unless you’re Novak, Federer, or Nadal, like, the next person is Andy Murray."
"It’s like you’ve achieved everything. You deserve to go out, I think, a little bit more gracefully than he’s done. I think that the surgeries, the pain, it’s just not worth it, in my opinion," he added.
He added that he wanted to go out in style by showing his fans some of his best tennis.
"I don't wanna go out like that. I would rather go out knowing that I gave the people a good glimpse of my peak."
Nick Kyrgios later claimed he could defeat 50% of the players on the tour right now but was waiting to return at his best.
