Nick Kyrgios' Dark Story: He Was Treated In A Mental Hospital After Failure At Wimbledon 2019

Tennis player from Australia, Nick Kyrgios. (Photo: Instagram/@k1ngkyrg1os)

JAKARTA - Tennis player from Australia, Nick Kyrgios, keeps surprising facts about his career. Kyrgios admitted that he had been hospitalized in a mental hospital.

At that time he had to receive treatment because he thought of committing suicide due to defeat at Wimbledon in 2019.

This fact was exposed by Australian media citing a new episode of the Netflix documentary "Break Point."

The Australian has previously detailed his mental health struggle during his dark period in his life. However, in the new series "Break Point" which will be released on June 21, he said he needed hospital treatment.

"I'm really considering whether I want to commit suicide," Kyrgios said, according to The Australian newspaper, quoted from AFP via Antara, Thursday.

"I lost at Wimbledon. I woke up and my dad was sitting in bed, sobbing. It was a big warning to me. I was like, 'OK, I can't keep doing this'."

"I ended up in a mental ward in London to find out my problem," he continued.

Kyrgios posted a long message on Instagram last year about his mental health problems, linking him to a photo from the 2019 Australian Open where he pointed to a sign on his arm.

"If you look closer, on my right arm you can see I hurt myself," said Kyrgios.

"I have thoughts of suicide and really struggled to get out of bed, let alone play in front of millions of people," he added.

Kyrgios had a year like the rollercoaster ahead of the 2019 season and was often criticized for his behavior on the pitch.

Very talented, he is also easily emotional and gets a bad reputation for his emotions that overflow in the field.

He lost to Rafael Nadal in the second half of Wimbledon in 2019, and said he was wearing a white shirt arm to cover up evidence of self-injury.

"I drank, abused drugs, lost my relationship with my family, pushed all my close friends away," Kyrgios said in the documentary.

Since then, Kyrgios has "completely changed himself," and finally reached the Wimbledon final last year.

Now, ranked 25 in the world this week returned to the grass field by taking action at the Stuttgart Open after knee surgery last January. However, he had to be eliminated in the first round of the Wimbledon warm-up tournament.