Lawyers for tennis star Nick Kyrgios have been granted a six-week adjournment to address a charge of common assault, which is believed to relate to an incident involving his former girlfriend Chiara Passari.
Kyrgios was not required to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court today for the first mention of the case, where he was represented by his lawyer Michael Kukulies-Smith.
Police said the charge was based on a complaint lodged in December last year about an incident that occurred the previous January.
Kyrgios was summonsed on the charge last month, which carries a maximum jail term of two years.
This morning, Mr Kukulies-Smith asked the court for a date in November.
He said the date was to accommodate Kyrgios, who was not often in Canberra.
"It's an application … which is one which is capable of resolving the matter," Mr Kukulies-Smith said.
But he told the court he would not go into detail because of the media members in the court.
But Magistrate Louise Taylor said she was reluctant to grant the date, and that she was not certain of why there was the secrecy.
She also told the court in the ordinary course of events she would be asking Mr Kukulies-Smith to indicate pleas of guilty or not guilty for his client.
Magistrate Taylor granted a six-week adjournment, with the case set to be back on October 4.
Kyrgios is currently in New York, preparing for the US Open.
