"Every injury is different": Robson dispels notion of severity of Raducanu's surgery

Emma Raducanu underwent triple surgery recently but her compatriot Laura Robson is not worried about it with the former player claiming that Raducanu will be fine.

Boris Becker recently made headlines when he questioned the underreporting of Raducanu's injuries. For him, the injuries can be career-threatening as they are all complicated because they happened in joints which can be fickle to nurse back to health. Zverev struggled with an ankle injury, and Thiem's career is still greatly affected by a wrist injury so there are instances where the injuries proved rather tricky to overcome.

Laura Robson has no worries about Raducanu's injuries explaining that it's not the end of the world:

“There's been quite a lot of talk about how the wrist is, like, the end of the world! But I was thinking to myself, ‘I know just as many people who had successful operations.’ Take [former US Open runner-up] Madison Keys: maybe two years ago she had a wrist operation with the same surgeon that I had in the States and it was totally successful. She wasn't even out for very long."

She further explained that every injury is different:

"Plus, every injury is different. I had almost a super-flexible joint. It was getting too much wear and tear because it was just moving too much. So by the time I even started feeling pain, it was already quite far down the line in terms of damage. Emma’s issue is with bumps on the bone; it’s actually more the top of the hand than the wrist joint really.”