the australian tennis player Nick kyrgioscurrent number 25 in the world ranking of the atprevealed today that he was in a psychiatric hospital because he wanted to commit suicide, during the tournament of Wimbledon 2019.
One of the most controversial players on the circuit, kyrgios I lived a very problematic 2019, especially when he was beaten by the Spanish Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in the second round, obeys the news agency today AFP.
“I drank alcohol, took drugs, I distanced myself from my family and my close people. I lost at Wimbledon and when I woke up my father was sitting on my bed crying. It was the turning point, I said to myself ‘Ok, I can’t continue like this’. I ended up in a psychiatric service in London to fix my problems.”said the Australian tennis player.
kyrgios He came to play with long sleeves to cover the marks that were caused by suicide attempts: “If you look closely you can see the self-mutilation marks on my right arm. I had suicidal thoughts, I didn’t want to get up and play”.
Since then, Kyrgios has recovered a positive path and was a finalist at Wimbledon last year, when he lost to the Serbian Novak Djokovic.
The 25th of the world atp He returned to competition this week in Stuttgart, after a knee injury suffered last January, and fell to the Chinese Yibing Wu (64a).
