The shocking revelation from the Russian tennis player, number 7 in the world: after the US Open he felt very intense pain, the rush to hospital and the sudden operation were providential.
Luckily he was able to tell the story with a smile, joking about it. But Andrey Rublev, the exuberant Russian tennis player capable of everything and its opposite, of self-flagellating on the pitch for mistakes made or going into a rage over alleged refereeing wrongs, he had a really bad time. After the US Open he risked losing a testicle. “The last thing I did before the operation was sign the document authorizing the amputation,” he told a press conference in Stockholm.
Rublev, shocking revelation: “They were about to amputate my genitals”
Rublev had given a preview shortly before the Masters 1000 in Shanghai, without however going into detail: “I risked having a part of my body amputatedI was saved in a matter of hours.” In Sweden, however, he was more generous with details. Illuminating, in their own way. “The truth is, I almost lost a testicle. And what I was very lucky. In fact, they say that you only have five or six hours if blood stops flowing to the testicle. And then the only possibility is amputation.”
The pain after the US Open, the rush to the hospital and the surgery
Everything happened later the elimination in the round of 16 of the last US Open at the hands of the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, after a long battle that lasted until the fifth set. In the following days, Rublev felt such severe pain in his testicle that he went to hospital. “I said to myself: ‘I have a strange pain, let’s try to go to hospital’. They immediately did a check-up and took me in as an emergency for the surgery.”
Rublev relief, amputation averted: he had even signed
A providential intervention, given that a longer waiting time would have entailed irreparable consequences for the Russian, number 7 in the ATP rankings and almost certain protagonist in the next Finals in Turin. “They managed to operate on me three or four hours after the first pain that I tried, so they managed to get everything done on time. Now everything is fine. The last thing I did before the operation was sign the document authorizing the amputation of my testicles“. Upon awakening, however, Rublev discovered that there had been no need.
Source: sport.virgilio.it
