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Murray Wenzel

Special reunion as patched-up Kokkinakis enters unknown

Thanasi Kokkinakis had a welcome doubles success with Nick Kyrgios at the Brisbane International. (Zain Mohammed/AAP PHOTOS)

Thanasi Kokkinakis's tears after a doubles match told the story as the injury-plagued Australian won in his latest and most dramatic return to the sport alongside old mate Nick Kyrgios.

The 29-year-old hadn't played in almost a year, after groundbreaking pectoral surgery that involved attaching a donor's Achilles tendon to his shoulder.

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