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Nick Kyrgios To Play French Open For First Time In Five Years As His Girlfriend Wants To Visit Paris

Nick Kyrgios To Play French Open For First Time In Five Years As His Girlfriend Wants To Visit Paris

The tennis star has given the clay-court tournament a miss in recent years, but it seems he'll do anything for love.

Jayden Collins

Jayden Collins

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has revealed he’ll be playing at the 2023 French Open for the first time in half a decade.

Kyrgios has noticeably given the French Open a miss in recent years due to his dislike of playing on clay courts.

But it seems that love can make anyone change their mind. 

The outspoken player has now expressed his desire to go to the French Open next year, with his girlfriend Costeen Hatzi wanting to visit the City of Love.


Quite the romantic, Nick. 

He told tennis reporter Blair Henley: “Next year I am going to go to Paris, I’m announcing that now. I’m going to the French Open. Breaking news. 

“Yeah, I haven’t played that in four years so yeah I’ll be back next year. 

“My girlfriend just wants to see Paris. So yeah. I mean I’ll just play the French Open as well."

Kyrgios had also ruled out playing the French Open or any other clay tournament this year, playing his first and last tournament on the surface in Houston this week.

When asked why he and Hatzi wouldn’t be heading to Paris this year, he said: “We already decided to go home and have that time. We’re just working towards that. 

“Time at home’s crucial because the next trip is for three months and the time at home is so valuable.

“Especially being from Australia, you get homesick very quickly and we’re both very family-orientated, so we have to make sure that season remains tight.”

The admission comes just days after the tennis star was fined for his outburst at the Miami Open. 

The Australian player had been handed multiple fines by the ATP, totalling AU$47,000, following his row with umpire Carlos Bernardes.

He was handed four separate penalties, an AU$27,000 fine for verbal abuse, AU$7,000 for obscenity, and two fines for unsportsmanlike conduct, with each offence costing the Aussie AU$6,600. 

It was the second outburst that had cost him a serious amount of money in the space of a month. 

He was also fined AU$33,000 at the Indian Wells tournament for racket abuse and audible obscenity.

Sounds like Nick is in serious need of a break. 

Featured Image Credit: Sipa US / Alamy. MediaPunch Inc / Alamy.

Topics: Nick Kyrgios, Tennis, Australia

Jayden Collins is a Journalist at SPORTbible. He has worked across multiple media platforms in areas such as sport, music, pop culture, entertainment and politics. He is part of the editorial team for LADbible Australia.