It's been nearly three years since Nick Kyrgios played in the Australian Open, with injuries decimating his career since the 2022 US Open.
But the enigmatic Australian has been building fitness over the past few months ahead of a return to the sport.
Will he feature at the first grand slam tournament of 2025?
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Will Nick Kyrgios play at the Australian Open 2025?
Kyrgios currently plans to feature at the Australian Open in January.
The entry list for the tournament is set to be published in December, which would confirm his participation.
"The injury I had was brutal … the surgeon said I probably wouldn’t be able to play again. But I said whatever, just try and get me another two to three years of my career,” Kyrgios said at the SXSW conference in Sydney in October.
"Everything has gone semi-well, and I will be playing the Australian Open this summer. It’s been a brutal last couple of years … but just being out there to play in front of a home crowd … I just want to be out there, lighting up the crowd and playing in front of my own country.
"Whether it is good or bad, it will certainly be a lot of fun, for sure. I am looking forward to it.
"My only motivation to come back and play is to try and win a grand slam, and I’ll give it one more shot."
The Aussie has also announced he will ramp up his comeback to tennis at December's World Tennis League event in Abu Dhabi before making his ATP Tour return at the Brisbane International at the end of the month.
"I am coming back because something is keeping me around the game," Kyrgios told Code Sports.
"I have beaten pretty much every person that has been put in front of me, made a final of a Grand Slam, won a doubles title in a Grand Slam, won multiple titles and made money.
"But I think the one thing that is now on my target is a Grand Slam. I think that will be the only thing that will shut people up at the end of the day.
"That’ll be my deep motivation."
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Kyrgios hasn't played a professional tennis match since June 2023, struggling with wrist, knee and foot injuries.
His last Grand Slam tournament match was a quarter-final loss to Karen Khachanov at the US Open in 2022.
Nick Kyrgios ranking
Kyrgios is currently without an ATP ranking after several months of inactivity.
He holds a protected ranking of 21, which is set to grant him entry into ATP events.
Protected rankings are granted by the ATP when a player misses more than six months of tennis because of injury.
Nick Kyrgios prize money won
Having been a tennis pro for over a decade now, Kyrgios has accumulated a tidy sum of prize money.
According to the official ATP website, the Australian has taken home US$12,478,415 in tournament winnings to date.
That sum includes prize money from both singles and doubles events.
