By Chris Oddo | Monday July 3, 2017
Aussie Nick Kyrgios saw his Wimbledon end before it began as he bowed out with a hip injury on Day 1.
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Nick Kyrgios has been forced out of Wimbledon after just two sets. The No.20 seed, who entered the tournament carrying a significant hip injury and claimed to be at about 65 percent health, retired after dropping the first two sets to Pierre-Hugues Herbert on Day 1.
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The loss ends a stretch of three consecutive years of making the second week at SW19 for the 22-year-old Canberra native.
“I kind of knew I was in trouble,” Kyrgios told reporters. “I have been feeling my hip ever since I fell over at Queen's. Never got it right. I was doing everything I could to help it, but just not enough time.”
Asked if surgery for the hip might be an option, Kyrgios said he’ll do everything he can to avoid going down that path.
“Probably not at the moment,” he said. “I have too much stuff going on.
But the possibility remains. Kyrgios has had more than one injection in the hip this season. He told reporters it felt find heading into Paris but a slip in his first match at Queen’s Club a few weeks ago derailed his season.
“I had it right after Paris. I wasn't feeling it at all. When I initially got on the grass, I wasn't feeling my hip at all. … “I was playing great. I was feeling good. Then it just all got taken away pretty quickly.”