(Sydney) Nick Kyrgios was admitted to a psychiatric hospital as he contemplated suicide during the Wimbledon tournament in 2019, the Australian player reveals in a new episode of the series break pointstreaming on Netflix from June 21.
“I was actually thinking about killing myself,” he says, according to the newspaper. The Australian.
Controversial darling of the public, Kyrgios had a very difficult year in 2019, regularly criticized for his escapades on the courts. Beaten by Rafael Nadal in the second round of Wimbledon, he says he wore a sleeve on his right arm during this match to cover his scars.
“I drank alcohol, I took drugs, I distanced myself from my family and my loved ones. I lost at Wimbledon, and when I woke up, my father was crying, sitting on my bed. That was the trigger, I said to myself “Ok, I can’t go on like this”. I ended up in a psychiatric ward in London to sort out my problems,” he explains, still according to The Australian.
“If you look closely, you can see signs of self-harm on my right arm. […] I had suicidal thoughts, I no longer wanted to get up and find myself playing alone in front of millions” of people, he wrote on his Instagram account in February 2022 about his psychological health three years earlier.
Since then, Kyrgios has “completely recovered in the right direction” until reaching the Wimbledon final last year, losing to Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3 ).
Dropped to 25e world rank, he returned to competition this week in Stuttgart, after a knee injury in January. Short of form, he was beaten by China’s Yibing Wu (64e) 7-5, 6-3 in just over an hour.
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Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev said that he had never thought about changing his sports citizenship.
Medvedev is 29 years old and a native of Moscow. In 2025, several Russian tennis players switched to the flags of other countries: Daria Kasatkina (Australia), Anastasia Potapova (Austria), Kamilla Rakhimova, Maria Timofeeva and Polina Kudermetova (all from Uzbekistan).
— Last year, many Russian players changed their citizenship. What do you feel about it? Do you understand why they took such a step?
“I said that I 100% understand and respect them, because this is what can be done, especially in sports. Perhaps this is even easier for athletes than for other people. I never thought about it because I believe that where you are born matters a lot. Politics and other things are another matter. I repeat, many players change their citizenship, and among them are my friends. This is their choice,” Medvedev said at a press conference.
On Wednesday, Medvedev beat Frenchman Quentin Alice in four games in the second round of the Australian Open. The Russian will play against Fabian Marozan from Hungary in the next round of the Australian Open.
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Medvedev and Rublev simultaneously reached the third round of the Australian Open.
Daniil Medvedev and Andrei Rublev want to quickly forget the unsuccessful last season.
And so far they are doing everything to return to a leading position in 2026. The country’s best tennis players reached the third round of the Australian Open without much difficulty.
“Are you going to start playing already, Medvedev?”
Medvedev’s performance at the Grand Slam tournaments in 2025 can only be described as a disaster. The former world number one won only one match in the calendar year. It is quite natural that many tennis fans have managed to write off the Russian. In addition, he even fell out of the top 10 in the world rankings.
Daniil came to the Australian Open after winning the tournament in Brisbane, where he showed the highest class. The Russian also started confidently on the courts of Melbourne, beating the representative of the Netherlands Jesper de Jong in three games.
Medvedev was also a favorite in the match against Quentin Alice, but the start of the meeting remained with the Frenchman. First, Daniil lost the first set in a tiebreak (7:9) in a tense fight, and then allowed his opponent to lead with a score of 2:0 in the second game. At that moment, there was a complete disgrace going on on social networks. Tennis fans openly laughed at the Russian.
— I thought Medvedev was a hard court specialist? Ha-ha,” @SoldierOfDaSnow ridiculed the Russian.
“Most likely he will lose this set, win the third and lose the fourth,” predicted @Conquistador233.
“Daniil Medvedev is losing not only the match against Alis, but also the battle with baldness,” @ElcontadorT said ironically.
— Will you start playing already, Medvedev? asked @AlexisEG.
— Medvedev, consider him to have already dropped out of the tournament. What this player was like and what he has become now,” wrote @dxnnvisual.
But the haters who wrote off the Russian were put to shame, and quite spectacularly. Daniil took three games in a row, after which he brought the set to victory – 6:3. Medvedev did not meet resistance in the next two games – 6:4 and 6:2.
For the Russian tennis player, this victory became significant. For the first time since 2024, he reached the third round of a Grand Slam tournament. In the live rating, the athlete is now one position away from returning to the top 10.
“Won a set against Djokovic”
Andrei Rublev, who also experienced serious problems last season, also had a successful second-round match. The Russian’s opponent was the promising Jaime Faria. Although the Portuguese made it into the main draw through qualification, he approached the tournament in excellent shape. Andrey had not met him before, so he had to prepare for the match using the Internet.
“I didn’t know anything about him, but then I looked for information and saw that a year ago he won a set against Novak Djokovic in the second round. This caught my attention. I saw that he has a great serve, a great backhand, he moves well, he fights hard. I watched a few videos of him playing and I was impressed and I wondered, watching him play, why he was playing in the qualifying rounds,” Rublev said after the match.
Andrey played the first two games almost perfectly, not allowing his opponent to make a single break. Moreover, the Russian demonstrated character in difficult moments, which was so lacking during last year’s recession. The Portuguese had five break points, but none of them were converted. Thanks to this, Rublev took the sets with scores of 6:4 and 6:3.
In the third game, Rublev made the fans a little worried, losing with a score of 4:6, but this failure remained the only one in the match. Already in the next segment, Andrei qualified for the third round – 7:5.
In the next round, Rublev faces a fundamental confrontation with Francisco Serundolo, who frayed his nerves in 2024. The last two head-to-head matches were left to the Argentine.
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(Melbourne) World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz, in search of a first title in Melbourne, qualified for the third round by beating the eye-catching German Yannick Hanfmann (102) on Wednesdaye) 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-2.
“I knew he would play very well, I know him from Challenger tournaments. But I didn’t expect it to be so difficult at the beginning,” admitted the Spaniard.
“His bullets came at me like bombs!” », he added, emphasizing with satisfaction that he then knew how to “raise” his own level of play.
Winner of six Grand Slam titles, Alcaraz has never made it past the quarter-finals in Melbourne. He will face Frenchman Corentin Moutet (34) on Friday.e) or the American Michael Zheng (174e and from the qualifications) to try to climb into the eighth.
On Wednesday, after a tight first set during which he lost his faceoff once, Alcaraz then no longer had to defend a break point… until the very last game where he found himself trailing 0/40. But Hanfmann was unable to achieve any of these three consecutive break points nor a fourth in the process, and lost on the third match point.
Zverev qualified
World No.3 Alexander Zverev missed a round, but qualified for the third round on Wednesday at the expense of Frenchman Alexandre Müller (52e).
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Alexander Zverev
The finalist of the 2025 edition won 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and will face the Briton Cameron Norrie (27e) for a place in the round of 16.
Zverev lost a set for the second match in a row, after having already conceded one on Sunday in the first round against the Canadian Gabriel Diallo (41e).
The 28-year-old from Hamburg joins Carlos Alcaraz, who qualified earlier in the day, in the third round, while awaiting the matches of Jannik Sinner (2e) and Novak Djokovic (4e), scheduled for Thursday.
Wednesday against Müller, the start of the match was clearly to the advantage of Zverev, who led 6-3, 3-0.
The Frenchman – who defeated the German in his hometown during their last duel – then responded and won the next five games to win the second set 6-4.
While Zverev broke away at 4-2 in the third act, the match was interrupted for around thirty minutes by rain.
Returning to the court, the German concluded the round without difficulty and dominated the fourth to seal his qualification, despite several calls to the kinesiologist at the end of the match to massage his left ankle.
Medvedev wins
For his part, Quentin Halys, 83e world, held up well, but did not find the solution against the Russian Daniil Medvedev (12e) who won 6-7 (9/11), 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
The triple finalist in Melbourne (2021, 2022, 2024), beaten last year in the second round, will face the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (47e) to try to climb into 8are of final.
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Daniel Medvedev
After snatching the first set, Halys made the entry break in the second set and had three balls at 40/0 to lead 3-1.
But instead, the Russian chained five points in a row to get back to 2-2 and dominate the rest of the round. And the game ended with an ace.
Halys therefore does not equal his best Grand Slam result, obtained three times by reaching the third round at Wimbledon (2023, 2024) and Roland-Garros (2025).
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Quentin Halys
“Quentin played very well and I’m happy to have played at a good level to win,” commented Medvedev who believes he is not yet playing as well as in Brisbane where he won before coming to Melbourne where he is “struggling” to adapt to the courts.
“His forehand was very dangerous, even at the end when he was tired. But I dug deep and managed to prevail,” he added.
“It’s been over a year since I last got past the second round of a Grand Slam tournament, so I’m happy,” he added with a laugh.
He indeed played in the quarter-finals of the United States Open in 2024, where he won his only Grand Slam title to date in 2021, before falling in the second round in Melbourne in 2025 then in the first at Roland-Garros, Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows.
“Above all, I need to rebuild my confidence. If I win five more matches here (and therefore the title, Editor’s note), it will be great. But I will take the matches one after the other,” he concluded.
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