Kokkinakis injury setback rules him out of Australian Open

[ad_1] Thanasi Kokkinakis has withdrawn from the Australian Open singles as a result of his shoulder harm, however stays hopeful of taking part in within the males's doubles alongside Nick Kyrgios.

Kokkinakis was pressured out of the Adelaide Worldwide this week after a shoulder grievance flared throughout his first-round win over American Sebastian Korda.

The match was the 29-year-old South Australian's extremely anticipated return to singles motion after almost 12 months away following pectoral surgical procedure final February.

The novel surgical procedure concerned having an Achilles tendon surgically knotted between his proper pectoral muscle and shoulder.

Kokkinakis mentioned the most recent setback was unrelated to that harm however on medical recommendation he pulled out of the Open singles, which will get underway on Sunday.

He had a protected rating to enter the singles at Melbourne Park.

"Sadly after talking with my group and medical doctors, I've made the choice to drag out of the Australian Open singles," he wrote on social media.

"After an extremely powerful yr, this was the occasion I used to be wanting ahead to probably the most, however I am not prepared but.

"I am doing all the things I can to be again to 100 per cent.

"We'll nonetheless try to step out for the doubles and have some enjoyable."

Kyrgios earlier additionally dominated himself out of singles whereas on the comeback path after a number of accidents restricted the 30-year-old to only seven singles tour matches over the previous three years.

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