Wonderful stuff in the British camp!
Doubles Specialist Ross Hutchins has been diagnosed last year with the Hodgkins lymphoma. The Brit defeated the disease and he is now ready to get back his life.
Brisbane’s significance…
Ross will kick start the season (and his new life) in Brisbane to comment “I’ve come here for 18 years and it’s an absolute gem for me, I absolutely love it. I actually look at it favourably last year because it’s the place that almost made me realize that I had the cancer.
“I will never think of this place with any negative thoughts. It’s the place that fixed me. It’s nice to have a second chance. I never thought I’d need a second chance. I knew I’d get injuries but to have to stop and go through a different sort of recuperation and what I’ve had to do the last year, it’s been an experience for me.
… about the past year…
“Looking back now a year later I’m pleased and very proud of myself and of the team around me that we’ve been able to get to a stage where I feel I’m able to prepare flat out and be going to Australia fully fit and raring to go.
…and the near future
“I do feel I’ve got that chance now to try to achieve more than what we did before. We want to make the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals and we feel like we’re a good team. Just because we’ve had a year off, it doesn’t mean we can’t pick up where we left off across the whole of 2014. We expect to do well; we don’t want to take baby steps.”