Aykhan Mammadov
Hall of Fame
I have been playing 5.5 years, 3 times a week, mostly with the coach, 1 hour each. I'm 41 now. In the first year I got trauma of the wrist, 2 years ago I had tennis elbow which I couldn't resolve without physio-therapy and finally changed a racquet and came back after 3 months of absence. Recently I had trauma of the knee and missed training for about 4 months.
But I'm amateur.
I recall PROs and their traumas. Safin missed for a year or more, Henin missed because of trauma, Hingis got trauma and argued with Tacchini, Rios left tennis because of traumas, Agassi had traumas at some period of his career, Coria now has trauma,.... and we can continue the list, hundreds and hundreds of PROs periodically gets traumas.
I started think that tennis is the most traumatic sport in the world. It is more traumatic than karate, box, fightings, basketball, football and etc...
Why? Because only in tennis a ball is moving with the speed about 100-200 km/h and this fact demands from a PRO instant reaction, this contributes into great shocks in chords, tendons.
No doubt - in karate u may get a hit in your face but that is something EXPECTED by nature of that sport or so to say unlucky situation. But here there is permanent load on tendons and chords during hours. And mostly traumas appear just in chords and tendons in tennis.
Conclusion: PRos and amateurs, leave tennis, it is NOT healthy. Otherwise we must fight against transformation of tennis into the sport demanding more physical condidtioning than pure real tennis game, feeling of the ball.
But I'm amateur.
I recall PROs and their traumas. Safin missed for a year or more, Henin missed because of trauma, Hingis got trauma and argued with Tacchini, Rios left tennis because of traumas, Agassi had traumas at some period of his career, Coria now has trauma,.... and we can continue the list, hundreds and hundreds of PROs periodically gets traumas.
I started think that tennis is the most traumatic sport in the world. It is more traumatic than karate, box, fightings, basketball, football and etc...
Why? Because only in tennis a ball is moving with the speed about 100-200 km/h and this fact demands from a PRO instant reaction, this contributes into great shocks in chords, tendons.
No doubt - in karate u may get a hit in your face but that is something EXPECTED by nature of that sport or so to say unlucky situation. But here there is permanent load on tendons and chords during hours. And mostly traumas appear just in chords and tendons in tennis.
Conclusion: PRos and amateurs, leave tennis, it is NOT healthy. Otherwise we must fight against transformation of tennis into the sport demanding more physical condidtioning than pure real tennis game, feeling of the ball.