Author: Yongka Micheal Mbidzenyuy

Nick Kyrgios's hopes of ending his country's 47-year wait for a homegrown men's champion at the Australian Open have been shattered on the opening day when he was forced to pull out of the tournament with a knee injury on Monday The Australian No 1, considered one of the favo@urites after reaching his first Grand Slam singles final at Wimbledon last@ summer, had not played a warm-up event because of a knee injury.  He played a charity match against Novak Djokovic on Friday and did not indicate his participation was in doubt, but he called an impromptu press conference on Monday afternoon where he said he was "devastated" to have to withdraw due to a small tear in his lateral meniscus (knee). Kyrgios said: "I'm devastated, obviously. It's my home tournament. I've had some grea...

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