Marius_Hancu
Talk Tennis Guru
[I'm reposting this in this forum too, as it's very important to protect ourselves against such occurences]
As you probably know, Sharapova won yesterday and W/O-ed today:-[
Just before the match, in an interview with the French-Canadian TV, she mentioned her recurring shoulder problems and that she's currently working with Prince to develop for her a more flexible racquet, which would help her shoulder.
I think she said (didn't record) that she's already playing with this new racquet.
Anyway, she should have listened to my advice:
Best arm friendly racquets?
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=58089
where I recommend a stiffness under 65.
Using racquets rated 70 for stiffness will not help your career.
Hope others will heed this advice.
Plain stupid, short-view coaching in her case, I guess
She seems to be getting poor advice for her money. It seems the tear has been discovered only here in Montreal, after an MRI. Anyway, only after this incident.
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Maria Sharapova will sit out the U.S. Open because of a bad right
shoulder, the first major championship she'll miss since her Grand
Slam debut in 2003.
A doctor who looked at tests on her shoulder from April and this week
told Sharapova she has been playing with a torn rotator cuff tendon
since the spring.
"He actually couldn't believe that I've been playing this long with
this injury. You can imagine that I was not very thrilled to hear that
my medical team did not see this tear in my shoulder back in April,"
she said. "The good news is that it didn't get much worse since April,
but we could have started the healing time back then instead of now."
Sharapova will go to Arizona to work with a specialist for rehab and
strength work.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news;_y...slug=ap-usopen-sharapovaout&prov=ap&type=lgns
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As you probably know, Sharapova won yesterday and W/O-ed today:-[
Just before the match, in an interview with the French-Canadian TV, she mentioned her recurring shoulder problems and that she's currently working with Prince to develop for her a more flexible racquet, which would help her shoulder.
I think she said (didn't record) that she's already playing with this new racquet.
Anyway, she should have listened to my advice:
Best arm friendly racquets?
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=58089
where I recommend a stiffness under 65.
Using racquets rated 70 for stiffness will not help your career.
Hope others will heed this advice.
Plain stupid, short-view coaching in her case, I guess
She seems to be getting poor advice for her money. It seems the tear has been discovered only here in Montreal, after an MRI. Anyway, only after this incident.
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Maria Sharapova will sit out the U.S. Open because of a bad right
shoulder, the first major championship she'll miss since her Grand
Slam debut in 2003.
A doctor who looked at tests on her shoulder from April and this week
told Sharapova she has been playing with a torn rotator cuff tendon
since the spring.
"He actually couldn't believe that I've been playing this long with
this injury. You can imagine that I was not very thrilled to hear that
my medical team did not see this tear in my shoulder back in April,"
she said. "The good news is that it didn't get much worse since April,
but we could have started the healing time back then instead of now."
Sharapova will go to Arizona to work with a specialist for rehab and
strength work.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news;_y...slug=ap-usopen-sharapovaout&prov=ap&type=lgns
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