{"id":67932,"date":"2025-07-16T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67932\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:20:10","slug":"former-wimbledon-finalist-admits-hes-now-very-close-to-retiring-from-tennis-there-is-not-much-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67932\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wimbledon finalist admits he’s now very close to retiring from tennis, ‘there is not much left’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2025 edition of Wimbledon has drawn to a close with Jannik Sinner emerging as the champion of the men\u2019s singles event. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Italian player flexed why he\u2019s the world number one by defeating Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the final. <\/p>\n

Sinner<\/a> came through a semi-final with Novak Djokovic<\/a> to reach his first final and then lift his maiden title at the All England Club. <\/p>\n

One player who was absent from this year\u2019s event was Nick Kyrgios<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Injury prevented the Australian from taking part as a player, whilst none of the broadcasters picked him up as a regular pundit, which felt like a bit of a shame. <\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s made a big suggestion about his future in the game of tennis\u2026<\/p>\n

\"NickPhoto by Kelly Defina\/Getty ImagesNick Kyrgios makes claim about his tennis future<\/p>\n

Fans will be gearing up to watch Kyrgios in action as he makes a return to tennis during the US swing. <\/p>\n

The Wimbledon<\/a> 2022 finalist will enter the US Open<\/a> using a protected ranking after two years out injured but it would appear that those fans heading to his games should cherish the moments. <\/p>\n

In an interview with Patrick Mouratoglou on the UTS Tour podcast, he\u2019s claimed that he doesn\u2019t think he will be playing much longer. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI was just on the practice court and my right knee had a bit of a niggle and I can\u2019t play the grass season but I am going to play Washington and the US swing, it\u2019ll be good.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not much left, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much tennis left. My body can\u2019t take too much of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kyrgios admitted that he was still going to enjoy playing tennis but conceded that his days of competing with the best players look slim. <\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI am going to get healthy, hopefully play this year and then we will see what happens, but I can\u2019t play for much longer, I don\u2019t think.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard, the training. It\u2019s easy to play the match but it\u2019s the everyday training, the travel, that is the toughest bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun (to play the matches), but right now I can\u2019t train for two months without [getting injured]. When you start training and get injured, that\u2019s when it\u2019s not fun any more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is like Rafa too, I felt towards the end, he could not train for two weeks without having a little injury and it\u2019s like you can\u2019t ever play matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many rallies now. Even the big guys have to rally now. What chance do I have of rallying against Sinner?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe courts are slow now. It\u2019s hard for the big guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tennis needs characters like Kyrgios<\/p>\n

The player has had his moments on tour during his career, but it\u2019s hard to suggest that he doesn\u2019t bring something to the sport of tennis.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios leaves everything on the court and who can forget him barking emotionally towards his box when he trailed Djokovic in the Wimbledon final of 2022. <\/p>\n

When the time does come for Kyrgios to call time on his playing career, there might be a tinge of regret. <\/p>\n

Although he reached a Grand Slam final and won a Grand Slam title at the Australian Open playing doubles, he probably should have achieved more. <\/p>\n

Still, Kyrgios\u2019 enthusiasm for the game of tennis and ability to wear his heart on his sleeve will absolutely be missed when the curtain comes down on his career. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 edition of Wimbledon has drawn to a close with Jannik Sinner emerging as the champion of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,6532,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-67932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-nick-kyrgios","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114864536185052410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}