Alex de Minaur has been urged to rest up and come back stronger by Nick Kyrgios as Australia's two top tennis men both now have to overcome injury woes to recover for the final grand slam of the year in New York.
De Minaur, still reeling from the "freak" torn hip cartilage injury that forced him out of Wimbledon, has been told he could be out for three to six weeks, which would effectively ruin any hope of him playing at the Olympics in Paris in 17 days.
Yet while talking of his devastation at having to pull out before the biggest match of his career in a maiden Wimbledon quarter-final against Novak Djokovic, de Minaur also offered a bit of potentially encouraging news about Kyrgios's injury struggles.
