Nick Kyrgios reveals he ended up in psychiatric ward after Wimbledon loss

SYDNEY — Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has revealed he hung out in a psychiatric ward following a loss at Wimbledon in 2019 due to suicidal ideas.

The feedback from Kyrgios, extensively revealed in Australia on Thursday primarily based on interviews for the upcoming Netflix documentary collection “Break Point,” are the most recent on his longtime struggles with psychological well being.

He went to a hospital in London to “figure out my problems” after the loss to Rafael Nadal 4 years in the past at Wimbledon, the place he wore a compression sleeve over his proper arm throughout his singles matches to hide his scars.

“I was genuinely contemplating suicide,” Kyrgios mentioned, in feedback revealed by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I misplaced at Wimbledon. I awoke and my dad was sitting on the mattress, full-blown crying. That was the massive wake-up name for me.

“I was like ‘OK, I can’t keep doing this.’ I ended up in a psych ward in London to figure out my problems.”

Kyrgios mentioned he was “drinking, abusing drugs” and his relationships with household and pals had been deteriorating.

“That pressure, having that all-eyes-on-you expectation, I couldn’t deal with it,” he mentioned. “I hated the kind of person I was.”

Kyrgios, who has beforehand mentioned his psychological well being struggles on social media and in interviews, has spent many months on the sidelines with accidents since reaching the 2022 Wimbledon last, which he misplaced to Novak Djokovic.

He returned to the elite tour this week at Stuttgart after seven months off, however misplaced within the first spherical.

In February, he apologized in an Australian court docket when he escaped conviction on a cost of widespread assault after pleading responsible to shoving a former girlfriend to the bottom in 2021.

Kyrgios’ psychologist, Sam Borenstein, mentioned in a written report and testimony that Kyrgios had suffered main depressive episodes across the time of the assault and had used alcohol and medicines to manage. Kyrgios’ psychological well being led to impulsive and reckless habits.

A Justice of the Peace didn’t document a conviction in opposition to Kyrgios for causes together with that the offense was on the low finish of seriousness for a typical assault, was not premeditated and he had no prison document.

Immediately after the court docket ruling, Kyrgios issued a press release by means of a administration firm saying: “I was not in a good place when this took place and I reacted to a difficult situation in a way I deeply regret. I know it wasn’t OK and I’m sincerely sorry for the hurt I caused.”