Extremely bitter!Julian Knowle joined the ATP tournament in St. Gallen.Petersburg a severe injury to the left elbow.The 43-year-old Viennese voter is threatened with a six-month forced break after the operation.Whether the double specialist will return to the tour again seems questionable.
“I tore my left upper arm tendon and inner ligament in my elbow during the match,”said Knowle in a conversation with the APA on Monday.The man from Voralberg knew straight away that it was something of a nuisance.Nevertheless, he managed to finish the round of sixteen at Alexander Peya’s side somehow.
Knowle will be operated in Pforzheim on Wednesday.From the end of his career, the world rankings-51.”It’s still too early for me to say.But I’m 43.I will definitely get the Protected Ranking.But with a break of 44 and six months, it’s going to be difficult to make another run for it.”
For me it was a huge blow, because it happened from one second to the next “, says Knowle,” I had the hottest phase of my career, because I played myself back again.That was a huge satisfaction for me.”
The 2007 US Open winner won his first ATP double title in Bastad after three years and reached the semi-finals in Hamburg and Kitzbühel.