A tearful Nick Kyrgios was forced to retire from his first-round match at Indian Wells with a wrist injury. It is another setback to Kyrgios’ delayed return to competitive tennis after 18 months out with various injury issues, including to the same right wrist, which he needed surgery on in September 2023.

Injury-plagued Australian firebrand Nick Kyrgios has retired hurt from his first-round match at Indian Wells in a major blow for his comeback.

Nick Kyrgios was forced to retire from his match at Indian Wells on Thursday due to a wrist injury and said afterward that he wasn't sure what was next for him.

A devastated Nick Kyrgios said he doesn't know what else he can do to get his tennis career back on track after pain in his surgically reconstructed right wrist forced him out of Indian Wells.Kyrgios said he knew it would be touch and go after pain in his wrist forced him to stop practicing earlier this week.

Nick Kyrgios’ first match in two months ended in retirement. In his first-round match at the 2025 BNP Paribas Open, the fiery Australian experienced a flare-up of the wrist injury that plagued his career for the last two years.