“El Fashionista” Stefan Koubek has back surgery
After a good finish to 2007 and a strong showing at this years Australian Open where he lost to Paul-Henri Mathieu in 5 sets in a match that he shouldn’t have lost.
Koubek has had some back problems that flared up in Zagreb and then decided to try play in Sunrise and Miami which made the problem worse. He tried resting and getting treatment, but this was not successful and last week Koubek had surgery in Vienna to correct the problem.
There is a chance that it could end his career, but Stefan sounded confident that this would not be the case and he will back on tour in his home event the Vienna Indoor. At that time, he will able to have a protected ranking which will be in the 60s.
Hopefully he can come back tour without further back problems and be able to play tennis and be involved in some of the more memorable matches like the famous Sopot 2007 match with Agustin Calleri where he was down 6-0 4-0 and Calleri served for the match twice in the 2nd set before losing 6-7(3). In addition to this Calleri lead 5-3in the 3rd and lost it 7-5.
Nearly as important as health, it would be great to see the yellow shorts make a return to tour.
3 comments:
Here's to the yellow and orange banner;-) Sue
Best of luck, hopefully we will hear how the surgery went.
The surgery has been completed and was successful for now. The only way we will be able to tell is how Stefan comes back and hopefully he will be able to do so and play some good tennis before he retires.
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