Nick Kyrgios seeks to get assault charge involving his ex-girlfriend dropped over mental health struggles

Nick Kyrgios was charged with frequent assault over an alleged incident in December (Image: Getty)

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios is making an attempt to get an assault cost involving his ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari dropped over his psychological well being.

Kyrgios was charged with frequent assault of Passari, which got here to mild throughout Wimbledon 2022 because the the 27-year-old went on to achieve his first main closing.

The alleged incident happened in December 2021, with the cost carrying a most sentence of two years in jail.

Kyrgios is presently competing on the Japan Open in Tokyo and his presence was not required on the listening to in Canberra on Tuesday.

Michael Kukulies-Smith, Kyrgios’ lawyer, confirmed that he'll apply to have the cost dismissed on psychological well being grounds, having reviewed his consumer’s ‘medical historical past since 2015, together with public disclosures of his psychological well being struggles’.

The bar for a case to be thrown out on these grounds is regarded as excessive and would want approval from the director of public prosecutions, with a listening to on the applying set to happen on February 3, 2023.

Kyrgios spoke brazenly about his psychological well being on the finish of Might and stated that he had struggled with suicidal ideas, self-harm and alcohol troubles.

‘[I was] in all probability ingesting 20 to 30 drinks each evening – you already know, simply in my room alone – waking up [and] taking part in,’ Kyrgios advised the Flip Up The Discuss podcast.

‘Acapulco, in all probability one of many greatest tournaments you possibly can play, and I used to be actually in my room ingesting. And I’m about to play my first spherical and I’m simply actually considering whether or not I even needed to reside at that time.’

Later within the interview, he added: ‘All my aim is now's simply to information folks although that s*** as a result of it was brutal for me.

‘It was so exhausting, I felt so alone, clearly to the purpose of self-harm and fascinated with committing suicide – it was powerful.’

Final month, Kyrgios reacted to his US Open quarter-final defeat in opposition to Karen Khachanov by smashing two rackets in entrance of a packed crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.

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