The injuries prevented Pablo Cuevas from having a regular year and this has affected his ranking. Now, the Uruguayan reported that he underwent a medical procedure to try to be better for the next season.
Through your account Instagram, the Paraguayan tennis player reported, with a photo in the operating room, that he underwent a arthroscopy.
“I tell you that due to the pain that I had been dragging in my knee for a few months I underwent an arthroscopy, everything went well! The countdown, rehabilitation and progressive set-up begins. I thank the medical staff, great professionals and people. Thank you all for the interest you always show, we will see you soon competing ”
Despite the Uruguayan’s discreet performance during the 2020 season, this was enough to win him a degree during the year. However, this one came in a tournament Challenger.
Cuevas took the title of the tournament Lyon defeating in the final Elias Ymer. It is worth mentioning that, in this tournament, He faced players below his ranking.
In ATP tournaments his greatest advance was in the Geneva tournament where he beat tennis players like Reilly Opelka and Grigor Dimitrov and finally fell into semifinals against Denis Shapovalov.
On Grand Slams he only achieved two victories. One in the first round of Australia, where he was eliminated by Alex de Miñaur in the second round and another victory in the first round of Roland Garros, where he saw his progress slowed when he faced in the second round Novak Djokovic. On the other hand, both at Wimbledon and at the US Open, he said goodbye in the first round.
With his actions during this year, the Uruguayan has fallen 30 positions in the ranking of the ATP, since starting the year in position 67, it is currently is already in position 98.
