baker almost died!!

Bladetiger · Pro player

RE: baker almost died!!

Shhh · Challenger level

I echo everyones sentiments, terrible news.

This may not be the time or place to raise this pont but, isn't it ridiculous that it has taken this long for dedicated supports on here to find out. No other major sport would supply this little information about their leading players to fans, why does the LTA......Tennis Nation?

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Shhh wrote:
This may not be the time or place to raise this pont but, isn't it ridiculous that it has taken this long for dedicated supports on here to find out. No other major sport would supply this little information about their leading players to fans, why does the LTA......Tennis Nation?

Actually, I think it's good that we haven't known till now. We knew that he wasn't playing becuase he was ill, and the rest quite frankly is private, personal and a family matter. None of our business.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Awful news, tempered with thanks that the worst scenario wasn't visited - best wishes to Jamie for a speedy and full recovery.

helki · Futures qualifying

From today's ST http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article3822539.ece.

steven · Tennis legend

It sounds even worse than it did originally in terms of how nasty the symptoms were and the outlook for him playing again. Very scary.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

From today's ST http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article3822539.ece.

You beat me to the post, helki, but I've been having browser (as opposed to Internet connection!) problems! cry

Very frustrating! I thought the article/interview (which I read in the print edition! wink

) was a good & a sympathetic one. Jamie emerges as the pugnacious character we know & love. All credit to him for his philosophical attitude to what befell him. Here's hoping it will be rewarded with a complete recovery & a return to the courts in the not-too-distant future. One thing I found alarming, however, was this paragraph:

Baker has been given no guarantees as to his future health or a return to the sport that has been his life since childhood. He has been told by doctors that competitive tennis is off-limits. Knowing what I know now, just the ability to be on court involved in a tennis match, to have the ups and downs with all the adrenaline, is a complete and utter privilege," he says. "If and when I get back to playing, that knowledge will help me a huge amount."

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

helki wrote:

From today's ST http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article3822539.ece.

You beat me to the post, helki, but I've been having browser (as opposed to Internet connection!) problems! Very frustrating! I thought the article/interview (which I read in the print edition! ) was a good & a sympathetic one. Jamie emerges as the pugnacious character we know & love. All credit to him for his philosophical attitude to what befell him. Here's hoping it will be rewarded with a complete recovery & a return to the courts in the not-too-distant future. One thing I found alarming, however, was this paragraph:

Baker has been given no guarantees as to his future health or a return to the sport that has been his life since childhood. He has been told by doctors that competitive tennis is off-limits. Knowing what I know now, just the ability to be on court involved in a tennis match, to have the ups and downs with all the adrenaline, is a complete and utter privilege," he says. "If and when I get back to playing, that knowledge will help me a huge amount."

I wonder if the 'competitive tennis is off-limits' means for now? I would have thought if it was 'for ever' cry

they would have already said so?

JAMES4578 · Social player

It really was heart wrenching news, but the good news is that Jamie will make a full rcovery. Could that a return to the courts will take longer tahn we'd anticipated before. Right now though just hoping that Jamie continues to progress. I 've heard though that he can only take very limited exercise at the moment.

-- Edited by JAMES4578 at 17:02, 2008-04-27

Count Zero · Tennis legend

the way that article sounds could be jamie wil need to use a protected ranking :(

i just hope he can recover fully.