Final yr’s Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios is not going to place any unfair expectations on himself, the Australian mentioned on Sunday as he gears up for the Grand Slam with little preparation after a knee damage decimated the primary half of his season.
The 28-year-old had surgical procedure on his left knee earlier within the yr and was crushed in his comeback match following a five-month layoff when he fell to China’s Wu Yibing within the Stuttgart Open first spherical final month.
He pulled out of tournaments in Halle and Mallorca and can head to the July 3-16 Championships with “some query marks” about his health.
“Clearly five-set tennis is a totally totally different base altogether,” Kyrgios instructed reporters. “I take a look at my preparations final yr coming in, I most likely had probably the most perfect preparation attainable. It could not be any totally different this yr.
“Once more, I am not going to discredit the work I’ve put in for the final six months simply making an attempt to take care of my health, get again on court docket. I have been hitting with some actually good gamers this week and my physique is feeling okay.
“I’ll take it someday at a time. I am not going to look ahead and put unfair expectations on myself.”
Kyrgios, who misplaced to Novak Djokovic within the Wimbledon last final yr, had beforehand performed a singles match in October in Tokyo and pulled out of the Australian Open in January within the leadup to the event.
He missed the French Open resulting from a foot damage he sustained in the course of the theft of his automotive.
“I might have cherished to get one other match beneath my belt earlier than Wimbledon. My physique wasn’t prepared,” mentioned 30th seed Kyrgios, who meets David Goffin within the opening spherical on Monday.
“I have been making an attempt to emulate a bit little bit of the match load I’ll be having. Clearly you may’t do this with a Grand Slam. Final yr, first spherical I performed Paul Jubb and it went for 4 hours.
“I have been doing as a lot as you probably can a pair days earlier than Wimbledon. You do not wish to over-push it both.”
The 28-year-old had surgical procedure on his left knee earlier within the yr and was crushed in his comeback match following a five-month layoff when he fell to China’s Wu Yibing within the Stuttgart Open first spherical final month.
He pulled out of tournaments in Halle and Mallorca and can head to the July 3-16 Championships with “some query marks” about his health.
“Clearly five-set tennis is a totally totally different base altogether,” Kyrgios instructed reporters. “I take a look at my preparations final yr coming in, I most likely had probably the most perfect preparation attainable. It could not be any totally different this yr.
“Once more, I am not going to discredit the work I’ve put in for the final six months simply making an attempt to take care of my health, get again on court docket. I have been hitting with some actually good gamers this week and my physique is feeling okay.
“I’ll take it someday at a time. I am not going to look ahead and put unfair expectations on myself.”
Kyrgios, who misplaced to Novak Djokovic within the Wimbledon last final yr, had beforehand performed a singles match in October in Tokyo and pulled out of the Australian Open in January within the leadup to the event.
He missed the French Open resulting from a foot damage he sustained in the course of the theft of his automotive.
“I might have cherished to get one other match beneath my belt earlier than Wimbledon. My physique wasn’t prepared,” mentioned 30th seed Kyrgios, who meets David Goffin within the opening spherical on Monday.
“I have been making an attempt to emulate a bit little bit of the match load I’ll be having. Clearly you may’t do this with a Grand Slam. Final yr, first spherical I performed Paul Jubb and it went for 4 hours.
“I have been doing as a lot as you probably can a pair days earlier than Wimbledon. You do not wish to over-push it both.”
