Remember when Rublev took us by surprise in Beijing after admitting he had a surgery after the US Open? "I almost lost my ball" 😂 Here is the full story:
Andrey Rublev has attempted to make light of his recent health scare in the wake of the US Open where he said that he was close to having a body part amputated.
Rublev's run at the US Open was cut short in the fourth round after a marathon five set loss to Grigor Dimitrov. But in the aftermath of his defeat, he checked himself into the hospital.
He later confirmed that this was due to pain in his testicle where it was said that he could only afford five hours of blood not flowing before it had to be amputated. Something which when he got treated for, he had to sign a waiver to say it was fine to do. He will now play Stan Wawrinka on Friday afternoon with Alexandre Muller defeated in the first round yesterday 6-4, 6-1.
"Now I feel perfect, everything went well," he said. "I don't know how to call it in a smart way but I can call it in a funny way... I almost lost my ball.
"I was super lucky because they say you have only five or six hours if the blood stops going there and then it's amputation.
"I was lucky. I don't know why I said, 'let's go to hospital just to check why I feel a weird feeling'. They checked straight away and they took me as an emergency to do the surgery and then they were able to do the surgery in three or four hours after the first feeling I felt.
"So they were able to do everything good and in the end everything is great. The last thing before they made me sleep, I signed the paper saying they were allowed to amputate my ball - that was the last thing before the surgery that I saw.'
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