Nick Kyrgios to miss French Open due to injury sustained during alleged armed robbery

Nick Kyrgios will miss the French Open due to a foot injury sustained during the theft of his car and not because of a knee problem, his agent has said.

Earlier this month the Wimbledon finalist’s mother was held up at gunpoint by a masked man at the family’s Canberra house and Kyrgios’s Tesla was stolen, police alleged.

Kyrgios’s agent, Daniel Horsfall, said the player had injured himself during the “high-adrenaline rush of everything” that had happened during the robbery.

“During the incident on May 1, they had the armed robbery at the house,” he said. “With all the stuff that was going on Nick lacerated the side of his left foot. We don’t know how. .

“Basically, it’s just set him back about two-and-a-half weeks in terms of his loading schedule to get back on court for what we thought was going to be the grand slam.”

A man was arrested in Canberra soon after the robbery, with Kyrgios assisting police by using an app on his phone to locate the car.

Horsfall said Kyrgios could not remember how the injury had happened but suggested he may have hurt himself while rushing through his house after hearing his mother in distress during the incident.

The laceration was under the left side of his foot near his little toe, which had made training on court problematic.

“He couldn’t slide, couldn’t get on court because every time he put a shoe on it moved and it would reopen,” Horsfall said.

“His knee, as far as we’re concerned, is actually in fantastic shape, the surgery went well.

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“His fitness is at a fantastic level. It was just when we got to the last point of that