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| American Sam Querrey on mend from accident |
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES, California: American Sam Querrey is back practicing for his return to the ATP Tour after he cut two muscles in his right forearm when he sat on a glass table that broke in Thailand.
The world’s 25th-ranked player said on Tuesday he narrowly avoided damaging the nerve in his serving arm that would have ended his tennis career.
Querrey hurt himself on September 28 after practicing at the Thailand Open. He sat on a couch before going to take a shower. Afterward, he didn’t want to sit back in the same sweaty spot on the couch to put on his socks and shoes.
So he fatefully plopped down on the glass table, and its hattered.
“I fell through it,” he recalled. “When I got up, there was apiece of glass in my arm. Blood was gushing out. I ran down to the trainer. The doctor came and we got the ambulance and went to the hospital.”
Querrey whipped out his cell phone to display a photo of the open wound before it was closed up with 25 stitches during an hour long surgery in a Bangkok hospital. He cut 30 percent of two different muscles in his arm. The evidence is a thin, red 3-inch scar on the inside of his arm.
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