Aussie Jordan Thompson has revealed Nick Kyrgios is ‘pretty down’ after another knee injury forced him to withdraw from the French Open, while Naomi Osaka broke down in tears during her press conference after a first-round loss. Kyrgios surprised the tennis community having announced he was building his match fitness in order to play doubles at Roland Garros with Thompson.
Clay has never been Kygrios’ favourite surface and in the past he has opted to skip a number of the major events to save his body for the grass court season. However, Kyrgios appeared keen to link-up with his fellow Aussie in just his fourth tournament of 2025.
Nick Kyrgios (pictured right) withdrew from the French Open and Naomi Osaka (pictured left) was eliminated in the first round. (Images: @RolandGarros/Getty Images)
Unfortunately, Thompson revealed Kyrgios injured himself while training in Australia. And in a sad revelation Thompson claimed Kyrgios was finding it harder and harder to return from each injury.
“Nick was really pumped to play here. He kept messaging me every week, ‘you good to go to for doubs at Roland Garros’,” Thompson said. “I know he was back home in Australia training on clay, but a few days ago, Nick told me that he’s done something to his knee, so unfortunately, he just couldn’t be here.
“He was pretty down. He told me he doesn’t know how much more of these injuries he can take, and you’ve just got to feel for him. Because as much as he says things in the media, I think he loves playing tennis and he loves being on court, so it’s disappointing that he can’t be here on the court.”
Thompson will now partner fellow Aussie Jason Kubler for a first-round match on Tuesday against French pair Quentin Halys and Albano Olivetti. After dealing with a number of wrist and knee injuries that ruled him out for around 18 months, Kyrgios made his comeback at the Australian Open where he went down in the first round.
Unfortunately, Kyrgios has only played four singles matches in 2025 having won his only match in Miami earlier this year. While he isn’t able to compete in Paris it remains to be seen if he will make a push to play at Wimbledon. Last year, Kyrgios turned his attention to commentary having been ruled out for SW19.
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Unfortunately for Osaka, she was left frustrated after Paula Badosa came from behind to clinch a three-set victory in their first round encounter. Osaka won the first set, but wasn’t able to lift her game when Badosa rallied with the Spaniard prevailing 6-7 6-1 6-4 in an exciting clash.
However, Osaka was hard on herself after the loss and broke down in tears when talking about her trainer and the people she felt she had let down. “I hate disappointing people. Even with Patrick I was thinking just now that he goes from working with like the greatest player ever to like… what the f**k this is,” she said fighting back tears.
Osaka entered the French Open as the World No.49, but received a brutal first round opponent in Badosa. Traditionally, she has never had much success on clay having reached the third round at the event three times, but never advancing beyond that.
While Osaka struggled in 2024 having not gone past the second round of any grand slam, she did one better at the Australian Open this year having reached the third. And she will be looking to do even better at Wimbledon with plenty of fans rallying around the tennis star after her latest setback.
Naomi Osaka should be reminded that she’s won four majors – more than all but one active WTA player – and is only 27. A cruel sport this one; but it does give a lot of opportunity to rewrite scripts…. pic.twitter.com/hJkFzoRTd1
— Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim) May 26, 2025
She didn’t let anyone down. She did her best, but it wasn’t her day. She will be back.
— Robin Dunford (@hereford1terra) May 26, 2025
While Kyrgios won’t be taking part in the tournament, he will feature as a commentator in Paris. Kyrgios hasn’t competed at Roland Garros since 2017 having reached the second round. And while he won’t get another chance to better that record in 2025, he will be on the sideline offering his analysis.
Kyrgios is increasingly turning his attention to media opportunities in recent years having made an appearance as a commentator at Wimbledon last year. The Aussie’s guest appearances were met with plenty of praise. And after Thompson’s latest comments about Krygios’ setback, it appears a media career could be a future path for the 30-year-old.
Nick Kyrgios (pictured) will commentate at the French Open in 2025.
Aussies crash out on first day of French Open
Unfortunately for Thompson and the Aussie contingent it was not a great opening day on clay in Paris. Aleksandar Vukic, Chris O’Connell, Daria Saville, Kim Birrell and a battered Thompson all went down in the opening round.
But Alexei Popyrin managed to reach the second round of Roland Garros having broken his drought of first round exits. While Daria Kasatkina celebrated her first grand slam win playing under the Australian flag after making the switch.
Alexei Popyrin (pictured) won his opening round clash at the French Open.
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