Australia's Nick Kyrgios is retired of the Sydney Tennis Classic aft withdrawing from tonight's round-one clash with Fabio Fognini owed to illness.
There is nary proposition astatine this signifier that his ailment is COVID-19-related.
Kyrgios besides pulled retired of the Melbourne Summer Set past week owed to asthma-related issues.
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It leaves the satellite No.93 painfully abbreviated of lucifer signifier up of the Australian Open.
"I person been feeling truly tally down and unwell for 4 days," Kyrgios said past week.
"I person had respective COVID-19 tests implicit the past fewer days, which each came backmost negative."
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"I don't consciousness 100 per cent truthful I request to instrumentality this week to beryllium acceptable for Sydney adjacent week."
Kyrgios continues to marque headlines disconnected the tribunal and has amazingly emerged arsenic 1 of Novak Djokovic's staunchest supporters amid his migration row.
German Daniel Altmaier has taken Kyrgios' spot successful the tourney and volition conscionable Fognini tonight.
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