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Tennis: absent "probably 1 to 2 months", Daniil Medvedev is very uncertain for Roland-Garros

2022-04-02T14:18:50.060Z


Eliminated Thursday in the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 in Miami, Daniil Medvedvev announced on Saturday on Twitter that he will have to undergo surgery for a her


He had come close to recovering the world throne, finally the fall is even more painful.

World number 2 Daniil Medvedev will be absent from the ATP circuit for "probably 1 to 2 months" to treat a hernia, the Russian announced on Saturday, whose participation in Roland-Garros (May 22-June 5) now seems very uncertain.

“I have been playing for a few months with a slight hernia.

With my team, we decided to solve this problem with a small intervention.

I will probably be out for a month or two and I will work hard to be back on the courts quickly,” Medvedev tweeted.

Hi everyone.

The last months I have been playing with a small hernia.

Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem.

I will likely be out for the next 1 - 2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.

Thanks for all the support.

— Daniil Medvedev (@DaniilMedwed) April 2, 2022

World number one for three weeks in early March, before giving up his place to Novak Djokovic on the 21st, the 26-year-old Russian has since struggled to confirm.

Favorite of the Miami Masters 1000, the finalist of the last Australian Open was eliminated Thursday in the quarter-finals by the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, the defending champion, losing 7-6 (9/7), 6-3.

During this match, he seemed physically diminished, taking a long break in the locker room between the two sets and asking for the intervention of the physiotherapist after having been repeatedly forced to lean on his racket, back bent, to recover after the trades.

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“There was a game where I could no longer serve”

“Throughout the match, I was not at my best, he confirmed at a press conference.

After the difficult points, I had a hard time catching my breath.

I wasn't recovering fast enough.

Maybe it was the heat, but I was dizzy and there was a game where I couldn't serve.

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This defeat deprived him of the opportunity to reclaim the world number 1 throne from Novak Djokovic.

Only an accession in the last four would have allowed him to dislodge the Serb again.

Before that, Medvedev lost in the semi-finals in Acapulco to Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who had already beaten him in Melbourne, after suffering a surprise elimination in the 3rd round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 against the Frenchman. Gael Monfils.

The Russian won his first Grand Slam at the US Open last September, preventing Djokovic from achieving the calendar Grand Slam and being crowned for the 21st time in a Major, a record since reached by Nadal at the Australian Open .

Source: leparis

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