Kevin had to undergo a surgery 2 weeks ago in Melbourne to remove a loose bone fragments in his elbow. After that the South African went to Auckland to try to recover as soon as possible.
The good news is that he may be back to tennis quite soon.
What happened
“It started playing up in December and I saw the doctors in Sydney, where I had an MRI done, and then in Melbourne I had the surgery done,” Anderson said
“Basically, they just had to go in there, arthroscopically, and remove the pieces. They did find a few more pieces than had appeared on the MRI during the surgery and had to smooth down a couple of bone heads in the elbow and clean up the joint.”
Back after 4 to 6 weeks
Kevin is delighted by his recovery to comment
“Rehab has been going very well,” he said
“I’ve been spending several hours a day on it: usually an hour of treatment in the morning, followed by an hour of exercise and then another couple of hours in the afternoon just exercising it. The big thing is just getting the mobility back; at least it was for the first 10 days. These past three days, in the afternoons, I’ve started hitting balls very slowly. I’m making good progress.
“The doctor said it was going to be roughly four to six weeks and we’ve been trying to cut that back to as soon as possible. Memphis starts in two weeks. There’s a very outside chance of that, but we’ll have to see how the elbow’s doing in the next week or so. Right now, Delray Beach looks a bit more likely.”
Waiting for the big server to strike tons of aces from March on…
Here Kevin talking about his prospects in 2013
