The spiral of injuries continues and has already become a scourge that causes open complaints from tennis players. The tendency to use increasingly heavier balls and the constant changes in their conditions between different tournaments is causing shoulder, elbow and wrist pathologies in many players.
Raising your voice in the face of an alarming situation is the first step to finding a solution and it must be recognized that many tennis players in the circuito ATP They have been doing it for a long time. Now that we are approaching the end of the year and the efforts made during so many months are clearly beginning to pay off, injuries or, at least, permanent discomfort continue to arise in many of the great protagonists of this blessed spectacle that is tennis. The issue was on the front page of the media months ago, when the pandemic of fallen people was so great that it was impossible to ignore it, but now it has been Zizou Bergsnumber 181 in the world, who has opened Pandora’s Box once with a message on social networks, immediately supported and seconded by figures such as Stan Wawrinka and Taylor Fritz.
“We could greatly reduce the injuries that occur if we didn’t change balls every week,” commented the Belgian a few weeks after tearing the ligament in his left wrist, something that constitutes one of the most dangerous injuries for a tennis player. He has continued playing with a one-handed backhand, something that Corentin Moutet also did this year, and now that the injury seems to have healed, he wanted to share his reflections on social networks, finding clear support from many teammates. Carreño, Brooksby, Harris, Tabilo and Korda have been out for months due to similar problems that are clearly related to a tendency for the balls to become increasingly heavier, something that damages the joints.
Fritz and Wawrinka consider constant ball changes between tournaments unacceptable
The game speeds up more and more as the physique of the tennis players evolves and string and racket technologies progress, making a certain slowdown necessary, through balls that are more difficult to move. If we add to this the disparity in criteria and brands chosen by the major tournaments, we can imagine how difficult it is to avoid injuries of this type since tennis players must adapt to very different balls from one week to the next. Stan Wawrinka has strongly agreed with Bergs’ reflection, and Taylor Fritz has gone one step further, warning that he has been suffering from pain in his wrists since before the American hard court tour and that in the last three weeks, he has competed with three different balls. This problem must be addressed for the good of the tennis players.
Have been dealing w wrist issues since beginning of USO series cause of ball changes✌–we went 3 different balls in 3 weeks https://t.co/018jWjFPTC
— Taylor Fritz (@Taylor_Fritz97) September 30, 2023
2023-09-30 22:32:42
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