Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios will crew as much as play doubles on the Brisbane Worldwide, Kyrgios posted Monday on social media.
“Doubles at Brisbane. See y’all there,” Kyrgios wrote on his Instagram story with a photograph of their assembly at Wimbledon in 2022.
The pair have developed a friendship after as soon as being at odds when Kyrgios labeled the 24-time Grand Slam champion “boneheaded” and a “device.”
The ATP 250 occasion runs from Dec. 29 to Jan. 5 and serves as a tuneup for the Australian Open, which begins Jan. 12.
Organizers of the Brisbane Worldwide didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark from Reuters.
Djokovic, 37, and Kyrgios, 29, have confronted one another thrice on the ATP Tour, with the Australian profitable the primary two encounters in 2017 earlier than dropping in 4 units within the 2022 Wimbledon ultimate.
Kyrgios, who can also be scheduled to play within the Dec. 19-22 World Tennis League exhibition occasion in Abu Dhabi, has performed only one singles tour match up to now two years due to knee, foot and wrist accidents.
He’s set to make his aggressive singles return in Brisbane and can play on the Australian Open with a protected rating of twenty first, the place he can even be reunited with Thanasi Kokkinakis within the males’s doubles.
Kyrgios and Kokkinakis, dubbed the “Particular Ks” as juniors, claimed their solely main title in 2022 at Melbourne Park.
Information of the Djokovic-Kyrgios pairing comes lower than two weeks after Djokovic formally introduced his intention to play Brisbane, as he preps to play for an eleventh Australian Open title.
“I am excited to be kicking off my Australian swing on the Brisbane Worldwide and to compete once more at Pat Rafter Area,” Djokovic mentioned in a press release Dec. 4.
Info from Reuters and The Related Press was included on this report.