Hamburg. The Hamburg tennis player wants to continue her career “with passion and energy”. What the 22-year-old has to pay attention to now.
The Hamburg tennis player Eva Lys (Club an der Alster) has made her rheumatic autoimmune disease public. Four years ago be with her Spondyloarthritis been diagnosed, she wrote on Instagram. “This is a physical challenge that I have to face every day in addition to the physical strain.”
Eva Lys has played three tournaments so far this year
Thanks to the “great support and treatment” of her medical team led by Volker Carrero from Hamburg, a specialist in acute and chronic back pain, she was able to pursue her “athletic dream and get the best out of myself. But every now and then I am forced to change and adapt my tournament planning at short notice,” said the 22-year-old, who has competed so far this year in Canberra (Australia), at the Australian Open and most recently in Dubai in February.
After consulting with her team led by her advisor Sandra Reichel, the Austrian tournament director of the Hamburg world-class women’s tournament, Lys now decided to go public, “because I didn’t want to keep making excuses when I was unable to attend somewhere or someone stopped me asked how I was,” she told the evening paper.
After the shock post, she felt liberated
On Sunday, the day after, she felt liberated and “flew across the tennis court while training.” The reactions to her post were without exception positive “and gave me a lot of encouragement.”
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Despite the circumstances, the native Ukrainian is confident and posted a picture online on the hospital bed with a cannula in her arm. “I was often told from outsiders that I was physically too weak to be a professional tennis player. These statements made me even stronger. I am confident that my passion for the sport will continue to drive me forward,” said Lys.
Eva Lys wants to play another tournament this week
She is now well adjusted to her medication, which took almost two years, so there is nothing to stop me from “continuing my career and consistently pursuing my sporting goals.” Last week she had to cancel her participation in an ITF tournament in Slovakia at short notice due to a rheumatism attack, but she plans to play in Ricany, Czech Republic, in the middle of this week.
“I feel good,” she says. Lys has changed her diet and is following Sandra Reichel’s advice to remain patient. The joint pain is not chronic, but her immune system is weakened and she is susceptible to infections. Her attitude to life has not changed: “I continue to think positively.”
2024-03-10 20:02:00
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