Nick Kyrgios has faded in the memory of many fans who do not even know what has made it impossible for the Australian to compete for more than a year. For this reason, he has decided to tell without shame the odyssey he has gone through and the tremendous courage he is displaying to try to complete a miraculous recovery and compete again at the highest level.
“He was totally disabled when he came to me for the first time. He was clear that he was going to retire from professional tennis and was looking to alleviate the pain in his normal life,” the doctor points out in an emotional report in The Canberra Times. Michael Sandowresponsible for the Australian player seeing the light at the end of the tunnel right now. Nick Kyrgios He last competed in Stuttgart last year, although it was a failed skirmish after wrist problems arose late in 2022.
His discomfort in his right wrist reached a point where he could not open a jar or push a door without feeling severe pain. The stability in his wrist was almost zero; at the age of 30, she was facing very serious arthritis that would make it impossible for her to do daily tasks. Nick looked for all kinds of solutions, traveling to the United States to test stem cell-based treatments, but everything turned out to be unsuccessful. He decided to return to his country and, after an MRI, confirmed that he had a total rupture of the scapholunate ligament.
– Kyrgios was not able to lead a normal life before an innovative surgery
“When I spoke to Nick for the first time, he was very depressed. He was close to suffering a total collapse in his wrist,” says the doctor who decided to undertake an innovative technique known as ANAFAB, an anterior and posterior anatomical reconstruction performed through various incisions. The process was carried out in total secrecy, sneaking Kyrgios into a basement of the hospital and taking him out without anyone other than those involved in the surgery seeing him, since the Australian wanted to keep this process secret.
Things went well and now Kyrgios is eager to return, but the process is slow. “Any expert in this joint will be very surprised to see that Nick can play tennis again. There is no reason to think that his wrist can act normally, but a tennis player puts a lot of load on this area, so he has to get much stronger before to return,” says a doctor who reveals that Kyrgios spent four months in a cast and then a splint, until he was able to start doing strengthening exercises.
“So far, no one has recovered from an injury like this. The process he is immersed in is brutal. He lost sensation in his wrist and had to do specific hand exercises for professional musicians.” Once he went through that stage, it was time to work very hard in the gym, with the help of his trainer, Will Maher. “I have been working with him for 10 years and I have never seen him with such dedication and commitment,” he declares.
– The Australian has been training on the track for weeks and dreams of being competitive again
Proof of this are the words of Nick Kyrgios. “My family and my girlfriend don’t understand everything I’m doing. Honestly, what I’m experiencing is tremendous, I’ve never worked so hard,” says a man who works out in the gym to regain the best possible physical shape and strengthen his battered wrist. . He has been training on the track for a few weeks now, but he does not want to give clear dates of when he can return and lowers expectations.
“There will be people who demand that I win matches when I return. They will believe that if I face a top-40 I will have to win easily, but the truth is that they don’t understand anything. They don’t have an idea of the things I’m going through. I “I would love to face Djokovic once again and I would like to feel competitive. I dream of returning to the level that allowed me to be one set away from winning Wimbledon, but I know that it is not easy and that I will need time,” he stated. Nick Kyrgios.
2024-06-23 09:30:30
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