Nick Kyrgios returns to Australia's Davis Cup team for the first time since 2019, surprising many after previously expressing disinterest in the competition.
Nick Kyrgios has been named in Australia ’s team for the Davis Cup for the first time since 2019 for a qualifier in Sweden starting on 31 January. Nick Kyrgios is in line to make a sensational return to Australia ’s Davis Cup team for the first time in more than five years.
The 2022 Wimbledon finalist, who’s been taking the first tentative steps on the comeback road after long-standing injuries, is a shock selection by captain Lleyton Hewitt for the qualifying tie in Sweden in Stockholm starting on 31 January. In the team nominations unveiled on Monday, the 29-year-old’s name in Australia’s four-man outfit raised eyebrows as he’s shown no interest in the men’s “World Cup of tennis” ever since he last played against Belgium in November 2019.Having shown no inclination to return in the green-and-gold, he explained in an interview with AAP in 2022 that negativity towards him and the feeling of not being embraced by Australia made him prefer to play in a lucrative exhibition event in Saudi Arabia rather than represent his country. But Kyrgios, who played 11 ties between 2013 and 2019, is evidently back in the fold, named alongside regulars Alex de Minaur, Jordan Thompson and Thanasi Kokkinakis, stalwarts who’ve helped Australia reach the Cup final in 2022 and 2023 as well as last November’s semi-final in Malaga. With five nominations allowed, there’s still time for Hewitt to add another name to his team and much will doubtless depend on how the players emerge from the rigours of the Australian Open.that he still wasn’t sure if he’d be fit enough to compete in the Melbourne slam as his wrist, which had needed reconstructive surgery in 2023, had been left throbbing while trying to handle the massive serves of Giovanni Mpetshi Perricar
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