Australian Nick Kyrgios is out of the Queens Club build-up tournament due to a sore neck at Wimbledon 2021
Australian Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of next week’s Wimbledon warm-up at Queen’s Club due to neck complications.
Kyrgios wrote on Instagram: “My tennis family, I’m sorry my return has been pushed back as I am having some uncomfortable pain in my neck at the moment.
“I’m trying to get on top of it but as I can’t serve 100% I will only be returning when I feel I can make full impact on the tour. Will stay in touch.”
He has been replaced by Spain’s Feliciano Lopez at the Queen’s Club Championships, which are due to begin in London on June 14, two weeks before the June 28 to July 11 Wimbledon Grand Slam. The 2021 Championships will be the 134th edition, the 127th staging of the Ladies’ Singles Championship event.
Kyrgios, who last played at the Australian Open in February, was due to make his return for the grasscourt season after skipping the whole claycourt leg.Kyrgios reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals in 2014 after the Australian, who was ranked 144th at the time, beat world No.1 Rafa Nadal.
