Andy's latest injury

Drew · May 21, 2007

RE: Andy's latest injury

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Andy has confirmed his withdrawal from Roland Garros

johnnylad · Tennis legend

from BEEB

Andy Murray has admitted defeat in his battle to be fit for the French Open - and has also raised doubts about his preparations for Wimbledon.
The wrist injury Murray sustained at the Hamburg Masters last week has failed to heal in time.

Murray told his website: "I saw the doctor yesterday and as I expected I'm going to have to withdraw.

"The good news is I got the cast off and will start treatment tomorrow and take it day by day."

aria81 · Club Coach

It's a very good decision by Andy - I was really worried he was going to try and play on with it. I was calling him idiot boy for the past couple of days when he was talking about playing RG when you could see, just by looking at the injury when it happened, that it would have been a huge mistake. Brad's face when he decided to play on pretty much said it all so I could only imagine what his reaction would have been if he had decided to rush back to play with it.

I just hope he's fit for the grass, but if he's not then he needs to take all the time he needs to get fit. It's just been a bad run for him at the moment but there is absolutely no point risking anything more serious by being daft about his rehab.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

This is an article in the Sun, quoted on Andy's own website: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,3-2007270850,00.html

Sounding hopeful for Wimbledon, but I really hope that he sticks to his words and doesn't come back if the injury isn't really healed. We don't want permanent damage.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Sounds better!

I hope that when he is back, he will decrease the amount of tournaments he plays. This injury was always going to happen.

john · Top national player

He's not really played many tournaments this year. I really don't think that's a problem. Apart from the mandatary tournaments he has only played 3 ATP events. A quick look at the rankings tell us he has 22 point scoring tournaments in his pocket. 4 in the top 10 have played less, 4 have played more and 1 is equal. I don't think he's played a massive amount of tourneys, I genuinely don't think that's the problem.

Salmon · Tennis legend

No, he plays a lot. You aren't counting Kooyong, by the way.

Don't look at now, look at when the problems started - during DC. He had signed up for tournaments every week by then except for the week before Indian Wells, meaning that he kept just two weeks off for himself. Not a good move considering that he started playing the season right after a gruelling training session in the US.

I've said this over and over again, but he needs to stop playing so much on hard courts to preserve his ankle. People in the top 10 don't need to play more than seven or eight Tour events a year, and he could easily play three on grass and one on clay, leaving room for Doha, San Jose, one of the US Open warm ups and one of the indoor events. But instead he goes and signs up for nearly every week of hard court tennis.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Arka wrote:

Sounds better!

I hope that when he is back, he will decrease the amount of tournaments he plays. This injury was always going to happen.

I thought that the injury was put down to the weight Andy had added to his racket head -

".......seeking to find more power, he has long modified the head of the racket with lead tape while taking weight out of the handle. Consequently it provides him with one of the heaviest swing-weights in the history of the game, in the region of 490 grams. "

Andy has been playing with heavy swing-weight since the age of 16. He also has his rackets strung at extremely high tension, employing unyielding synthetic on the downward strands and traditional gut, which further contributes to the rigidity and increases the force to which the wrist is subjected. Assuming that his timing is precise and he hits the ball in the sweet spot, he can generate far greater power with his ground-strokes while employing a relatively short backswing. But there is an element of risk if connection is not perfect. "

If this is true will he change it? and if he changes it and loses power will he be as formidable?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yes, that was the dominant reason for this injury.

But I believe that him playing so much tennis contributes a bit to every injury he picks up.

I don't know if he'll change it, but hopefully not. Won't it be tough playing with something different after all these years?

Pammelia · Improver

I read this somewhere today talking about the Boodles Challenge - sounds promising.

..............' British number one is scheduled to play at Stoke Park this week, where his waxwork double, bound for Madame Tussauds, will be unveiled on Wednesday.

"Andy was not ready to play a match tomorrow but the beauty of the tournament is that we can take it day by day," said his agent Patricio Apey."

"There are eight players in the field and then a series of exhibition matches and we will leave a slot open for Andy."'

timmoore46 · Admin:moderator + Club Coach

www.theboodles.com site seems hostile to my version of Firefox but works with other browsers Ok.

Lets hope Andy has made a solid recovery !

Tim

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

timmoore46 wrote:

www.theboodles.com site seems hostile to my version of Firefox but works with other browsers Ok.

Lets hope Andy has made a solid recovery !

Tim

It's not looking so good: just seen a report on BBC News 24 & he didn't play at Stoke Park today. There was a brief interview with Patricio Apey (his agent), who said he was 50/50 & might be 51/49 tomorrow, but wouldn't be taking any chances because it was his career that was at stake, not just success in one tournament. cry

I'll be bitterly disappointed if he decides to withdraw, but also rather relieved that he's opted not to do anything silly that would jeopardise his future prospects! And at least there are good things to look forward to in the doubles this year with Booty & Big Bruv &, conceivably, Aucks & Huss. The latter may be 31, but has, after all, had the experience of beating the Bryans (the second seeds) to win the title (with Wes Moodie, unseeded) in 2005...

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 01:11, 2007-06-21

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

People who went to stoke park are fairl confident that muzza will play boodles, or at the very least wimbledon. He was on court alongside Andrew Castle playing some light tennis with this kid who won a GMTV competition. At least, the bruising has healed sufficiently enough for him to pick up a racket and do some hitting. It's not proper competition but at least its a step in the right direction.

ITs being hinted at that he'll play an exho sometime this week.

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

He really is leaving it late though, checked the OOP and hes not on it. Though Baker's playing Djokovic in an exhbo match. Personally, i dont think Andy should play Wimbledon especially with no match practice, even though hes going to play in an exhbo its not the same.

Best to prepare for the N.American hardcourt swing.