Pablo Carreno Busta undergoes surgery after nightmare year comes to a close

Spanish tennis player Pablo Carreno Busta has announced that he has underwent an elbow surgery and will be out for a considerable amount of time.

The 32-year-old, in a post on his official account on the social media platform Instagram, announced that he will be going through a difficult phase of recovery in the coming months following the surgery.

“From now on it will be several difficult months of recovery to return to the @atptour. But with great desire and enthusiasm to be back on the courts and continue enjoying tennis," he wrote.

Carreno Busta was one of the most notable players on the circuit who claimed that the change of balls was the primary reason for his elbow injury.

"I'm sure the balls have something to do with my injury,” he was quoted earlier in the year. “For example, before Roland Garros I was training with some balls at the Academy to recover from the injury and it was going well.

“I was playing sets, and I switched to the Roland Garros balls to start training with them and after 20 minutes I had to stop because It had become inflamed again. It is clear that the balls are very different, and the continuous change of balls has an influence.