Dear readers i haven’t been posting regularly for a while and thus have decided to close this blog down.
At todays mens Wimbledons finals I hope that Federer wins but that before too long Murray gets a slam.
Good bye.
It has long been obvious that Rafa Nadal had the beating of Roger Federer on clay but now we have seen Rafa win on both grass and hard court at respectively Wimbledon and the Australian Open.
The next slam is of course France and I have to say I cannot see Roger winning there.
It seems to me as if Rafa just seems to have the perfect game to play against Roger and that unless Rafa is injured or Roger is able to raise his game to another level equalling Pete Sampras record is going to be much harder than it seemed after Roger won last years US Open.
Its going to be an interesting few months.
Mr BH
Since the last time I posted about my injury I continue to be able to play. I have noticed however that my shoulder is starting to stiffen up (if that’s the right way to put it) again and consequently have been doing my shoulder loosening exercises again which do work.
I guess that just goes to prove that you need to continue to do your physio even after you think you have sorted out the injury problem.
Mr BH
Here in London we have experienced the worst snow for 18 year which has of course meant that the playing tennis outside is not possible.
In recent years I have become used to the fact that apart from one or two occasions its been possible to play through the winter months well not this year.
Is this global warming or just because of particularly cold weather from continental Europe as opposed to our normal direction of the North Sea? Who knows either way there is a forecast for more snow tomorrow.
Mr BH
Having been injured for most of the past 5 and a half months I was delighted last week to be able to knock against the wall at the club.
I hit a combination of backhands and forehands for about 20 minutes or so. Then later in the week I managed to have two 20 minute knock ups against some of the other men at the club.
This week I had a 15 minute warm up and then played two tentative sets.
I still don’t feel the arm is quite right but its better than nothing. I will try to play again next week before seeing some new physiotherapists so it will be interesting to hear what they say.
LAst week my fore arm felt bruised after my play – strange but true – and of course I dont know if this is becuase it hasn’t healed fully or because I just haven’t played for so long. We shall see. Mr BH
As a Volkl tennis racquet user I naturally keep an eye on developments there and in the past few years there has been quite a lot of change at Volkl.
Firstly Boris Becker joined the organisation and then he proceeded to by half of it. Clearly having a tennis great working at the organisation is a good thing but I became worried about a small company stretching it’s self too thinly when it was announced that they would also produce a Boris Becker range of equipment and clothing.
The reason for this concern is simply that Volkl has always been quite a small player in the the world of tennis equipment and I thought that it might prove too much to continue the Volkl brand as well as develop the Becker one.
Sure enough the last last twelve months would appear to have seen a lot of development of the Becker range which has now expanded to a Becker 11 as can be seen here.
But I’m glad to be able to report Volkl has now launched the power bridge range of racquets see here. These appear to be a development of the previous DNX range. If an when I manage to play test one I will try to compare it to my V enging 10. Mr BH
Well here I am writing my first post for a while and guess what over three months after I first did it I am still injured.
Trying to hit a forehand in reply to a ground stroke way I felt a very sharp pain close to the outside of my elbow and immediately dropped my racquet.
Since then I have been to two different physiotherapists the latter of whom is also into acupuncture. Because of this I have so far managed a total of six needles in the arm but alas last week for the second time in my recovery the arm has just blown up again.
The physio’s think that I damaged the ligaments around the radial bone (apparently this helps you to rotate your wrist) and that I also mangled the muscle near there as well.
They contend that when healing what’s happened is that the nerve around the radial has somehow become mixed up (I’m sure that’s not the right medical term) with ligament and thus if i strain the ligament too much it will hurt.
My GP (doctor) on the other hand suggests that I take a Cortisone injection to calm the whole problem down.
My concern is that the arm has broken down twice now following physio meaning that I am not so confident in that treatment. On the other hand I could take the Cortisone injection and that might appear to work without really solving the problem.
Either way I’ll let you know what happens. Mr BH
Here I am three weeks after having hurt my arm trying to hit a forehand and its slow going.
The arm is improving – in as much as its less sore – but I think that I am going to have to wait another three weeks if not longer to sort the problem out.
I suppose I should count myself lucky that the weather this Easter has been so poor in the UK that I wouldn’t have played much anyway. MR BH
