{"id":309906,"date":"2023-06-19T20:19:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=309906"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:58:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T21:58:27","slug":"kyrgios-suffers-major-wimbledon-injury-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=309906","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgios suffers major Wimbledon injury setback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year's Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios<\/a> withdrew from the Halle Open in his latest setback as he tries to recover from a long-running knee injury.<\/p>\n

"I tried everything here in Halle the last couple of days, but then I had to make the decision to pull out\u201d, Kyrgios said in a statement on the tournament website.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want, when I play, to deliver a performance like last year when I was in the semi-finals. But that will really not be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tournament organisers said Kyrgios was "still suffering from the after-effects of a complicated knee injury which had put him out of action for around seven months", adding that he felt a recurrence of the knee issue while training in Halle.<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Kyrgios, who had knee surgery in January, returned to action last week for the first time since October in a straight-set loss to Wu Yibing at the grass-court Stuttgart Open.<\/p>\n

Halle is another grass event viewed as a warm-up for Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

The Australian had been due to play Lorenzo Sonego in the first round and his place has now been taken by former Australian Open semi-finalist Aslan Karatsev.<\/p>\n

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