Operation for a hernia | Daniil Medvedev forced to leave “for one to two months”

(Paris) The world No.2 Daniil Medvedev will be absent from the ATP circuit for “probably one to two months” to treat an injury, the Russian announced on Saturday, whose participation in Roland-Garros (May 22-June 5) now seems very uncertain.

“I have been playing for a few months with a slight hernia. With my team, we decided to solve this problem with a small intervention. I will probably be out for a month or two and I will work hard to be back on the courts quickly,” Medvedev tweeted.

World number one for three weeks in early March, before giving up his place to Novak Djokovic on the 21st, the 26-year-old Russian has since struggled to confirm.

Favorite of the Miami Masters 1000, the finalist of the last Australian Open was eliminated Thursday in the quarter-finals by the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, the defending champion, losing 7-6 (9/7), 6-3.

During this match, he seemed physically diminished, taking a long locker room break between the two sets and asking for the intervention of the physiotherapist after having been repeatedly forced to lean on his racket, back bent, to recover after the exchanges. .

“Throughout the match, I was not at my best,” he confirmed at a press conference. “After the difficult points, I had trouble catching my breath. I wasn’t recovering fast enough. Maybe it was the heat, but I was dizzy and there was a game where I couldn’t serve. »

This defeat deprived him of the opportunity to once again steal the throne of world No.1 from Djokovic. Only an accession in the last four would have allowed him to dislodge the Serb again.

Before that, Medvedev had lost in the semi-finals in Acapulco against the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who had already beaten him in Melbourne, after suffering a surprise elimination in the 3^and round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 against Frenchman Gaël Monfils.

The Russian won his first Grand Slam at the United States Open last September, preventing Djokovic from achieving the calendar Grand Slam and being crowned for the 21^and times in a Major, a record since achieved by Nadal at the Australian Open.