Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios make emotional doubles comeback with win in Brisbane

• ‘Special Ks’ reunite for 5-7 6-4 10-8 defeat of Matt Ebden and Rajeev Ram

• Kokkinakis had donor achilles tendon attached to shoulder in radical surgery

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 friend 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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