Johansson to miss US OPEN

[gugafanatic]

Sweden's Joachim Johansson will be out of action for up to eight months after undergoing a shoulder operation.

He is currently 14th in the rankings after missing the French Open with an elbow injury before reaching the third round at Wimbledon.

"During the rehabilitation I'll work on building up my body," Johansson told Swedish newspaper Goteborgs-Posten.

 

[GotGame?]

Thanks for the update. That should be a relief to the field hoping to play the USO. It really is a pity because Pim-Pim had a nice run to the semis last year, but he hasn't been doing very well this season since the beginning of the year.

 

[Babblelot]

interesting...

If Agassi breaks down again, Safin isn't 100% and now with Joachim out, Nadal just caught himself a break...

 

[The tennis guy]

interesting...

If Agassi breaks down again, Safin isn't 100% and now with Joachim out, Nadal just caught himself a break...

On US open court, the top players are not Nadal's concern. He has to be concerned with almost every match if he doesn't draw another clay court specialist, similar to at Wimbledon.

 

[Babblelot]

On US open court, the top players are not Nadal's concern. He has to be concerned with almost every match if he doesn't draw another clay court specialist, similar to at Wimbledon.

Good point.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

expected to be out for eight months, thus it was very serious:

http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=ap-johansson-surgery&prov=ap&type=lgns

this can easily be career ending ...

 

[Exile]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who else is going to pwn roddick?

Oh, wait, there's an entire draw for that....

 

[bamboo]

Plays with a flexy player's stick and his whole arm is shot - everybody'd be blaming the racquet if he played Babalot.

 

[Exile]

We need a reason to do that?

 

[gully]

Wow, eight months is as long as I recall hearing a player's rehab to take. Sad to hear. Any chance he'll have the serve he did?

 

[fist pump]

his serve must be really damaging.....

 

[devila]

Make Brad Gilbert a coach for Johansson, and the losses will come more often.