Daniel Horsfall, Kyrgios manager, told The Canberra Times that Kyrgios wont be making a trip to play in the French Open because of a cut on his foot that he sustained during the armed robbery at his home back on May 1.
This was the same robbery where his mother was threatened at gunpoint and his Tesla stolen.
Reportedly, it was only after the said incident that Kyrgios noticed that he had sustained a cut on his foot while helping his family and trying to track down the suspect.
It turned out to be a serious problem that has been slow to heal and has prevented him from ramping up his on-court training in the past few weeks. It also apparently hampered the progress of his recovery from knee surgery.
The write-up from the Times goes:
“We needed to be at a point that he could comfortably play five sets. Right when we were getting stuck into the loading period, the [alleged] armed robbery happened at his house. During the ordeal, he cut his foot quite badly.
“We don’t know when it happened, but it’s quite a large laceration. The location of the wound, it’s been open for almost a week and a half now. It’s not healing correctly, and he can’t put in the work on court, so he’s been off court for almost two weeks now.
“His knee is fine, it’s just that he can’t get his loading up so we can manage the rest of his body correctly and he doesn’t injure something else when he gets out there.”
Kyrgios himself confirmed this in a Tweet.
Only human https://t.co/90lBrInZem
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) May 18, 2023
The French Open is to start on May 28.
In addition to the robbery, the injury, pleading guilty to assaulting his then-girlfriend, and the knee surgery earlier in the year, Kyrgios also lost his grandmother earlier this week.