Australian Open hopeful Nick Kyrgios played down another injury scare after his Hopman Cup win over Adam Pavlasek in Perth on Tuesday. Kygrios appeared hampered by a left knee problem during the singles match, in which he beat Pavlasek 7-5, 6-4 to temporarily keep Australia's title defence hopes alive in the mixed teams tournament before they were snuffed out by the Czech Republic. But Kyrgios was at pains to play down talk of any lingering problems, saying the knee wasn't a major issue.

The 21-year-old also had his left lower leg strapped in his first-up win over Feliciano Lopez on Sunday, but said at the time it was due to a recent injury sustained playing basketball.

"Just relax. Jesus Christ. Far out," he said. "I just had a little bit of a knee pain the last couple of days, it has actually been troubling me for the past couple of weeks." "Obviously the first match back a couple of weeks ago was tough and I am just getting used to it again, but hopefully it gets warm soon and it will ease off."

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