Kyrgios reveals Djokovic's role in his comeback: "A great source of motivation for me".

Nick Kyrgios will be one of the curiosities at the start of the 2025 season. After almost two years without playing on the circuit, the Australian will be one of the headliners at the ATP 250 in Brisbane.

In a recent interview, the 29-year-old confided in more detail about the seriousness of his wrist operation: "My fingers looked like sausages when I came out of the operating theatre.

For twelve weeks, I couldn't move it. I had to relearn how to use it. Carrying supermarket bags was very painful."

And it was following a training session with Novak Djokovic that Kyrgios was motivated to return to the circuit: "After nine months, I've made a lot of progress, to the point where I can feel the level I was at in 2022.

I was hitting the ball with Novak and he said, 'You don't look like you've had wrist surgery'.

That was a great source of motivation for me. If he hadn't said that, I don't know if I'd have been sufficiently motivated to keep thinking about a comeback. It was an important moment in that period."