Nick Kyrgios will team up with Novak Djokovic at the Brisbane International after crediting the former world number one for motivating his return from serious injury.
The pair will use the event to warm up for next month's Australian Open , with Kyrgios using an injury-protected ranking to secure a direct entry at Melbourne Park.
Djokovic told Kygrios in an interview at this year's Australian Open that they needed to play doubles before he retired. The 29-year-old recently revealed that a pep talk from 24-time grand slam winner Djokovic had helped spur his comeback. "I was hitting with Novak and when he said to me, 'It doesn't look like you've had surgery', and that was a big motivation to say like maybe I'm actually making some inroads and some progress into getting back because I didn't really know," Kyrgios said.
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