Alex Ward

TMH · Futures qualifying

RE: Alex Ward

paulisi · Tennis legend

Better news:

Alex Ward ‏@AlexWard1990 · 21m
First upper body gym session in over a month :) #onthemend

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

That's good to hear

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Don't break anything in the gym! Good luck with the rehab.

Spectator · All-time great

Good news indeed.

Jaffa · Challenger level

Such a shame, seems to be SO unlucky!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alexander-Ward-Tennis/1411345962410885?fref=ts

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Best wishes to Alex . . .

For me, though, (and no doctor!!!) his arm is way more worrying.

To have two stress fractures, same place, in barely 6 months, is unusual, and stress fractures tend to recur and, though they heal fine, they can be a real ongoing problem. Quite common, especially in adolescent boys, but Alex has to be careful.

Spectator · All-time great

Oh, that's rotten. I really thought that he had a good shot of making 250 by the end of the year and building up a good cushion of ranking points. But looking at the breakdown, he has only 9 points to defend before next April ... so one can hope for great things during the winter. And he's shown that he knows how to use injury time-outs to improve!

TMH · Futures qualifying

Christ he's only been back about three weeks since his last injury. Is that his third medium-term one this year?

Gets no luck at all. We can only wonder what he'd achieve if given 12 months injury-free. The fact he's comfortably top 400 despite missing large chunks of the year is quite commendable.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I saw a tweet that Alex was back in training. And now playing.

Which is great.

But does anyone know why he took time out?

Injury? Or just post-Wimbly success holiday?

Naomi B did that as well - had her best Wimbly ever and then disappeared from view.

(PS Could this also go in the Individual player section?)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 9th of September 2017 06:29:47 PM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

And talking of Alex, I noticed there was a picture of him on the JTC instagram feed - has he moved there from Soto? Or just training ahead of the UK events?

steven · Tennis legend

All 3 Alex Ward threads now merged, thanks for bringing this to our attention CD. I've deleted 2 of your 3 posts about this because it looked a bit odd when they all ended up on the same thread

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

The Optimist wrote:
And talking of Alex, I noticed there was a picture of him on the JTC instagram feed - has he moved there from Soto? Or just training ahead of the UK events?

Alex wasn't at Soto. He was training in Barcelona and had a coach from there. I guess at the moment he is just warming up for the UK events.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Loughborough Entry list is out and good sight to see Alex's name down.

JonH · All-time great

That is good but boy what a weak entry list.

-- Edited by JonH on Monday 30th of April 2018 08:27:54 PM