Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Tennis players obsess about injuring

The American surgeon Dr Richard Berger, who has operated on Del Potro and Laura Robson, says: "There are too many events, and on both the WTA and ATP tours there’s very little down time. ​ 

"There's not enough healing time because of the intensity of the matches, and in most tournaments outside the slams there's not even a day's rest.

"Players need to have superhuman abilities to stay fit."
Next up on the tennis gravy train is the gruelling clay-court season, which Federer says he may miss chunks of to preserve his body for Wimbledon. Hopefully the majority of the top players will be available next month, but a rash of withdrawals would not be a surprise. 

The tennis calendar is reaching breaking point, and so are the players.




How the men's top 10 have all been laid low in last 12 months
Andy Murray - Missed Miami with elbow injury
Novak Djokovic - Missed Miami with elbow injury
Stan Wawrinka - Suffered knee injury at Australian Open and subsequently missed Rotterdam
Kei Nishikori - Retired from Wimbledon with rib injury
Milos Raonic - Missed Indian Wells and withdrew from Miami with hamstring injury
Roger Federer - Missed French Open and US Open with back and then knee injury
Rafael Nadal - Withdrew from French Open and missed Wimbledon with wrist injury
Dominic Thiem - Retired from US Open with knee injury
Marin Cilic - Missed Monte Carlo with knee injury
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - Retired from US Open with knee injury



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