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Del Potro's attempted comeback at the Sydney tournament
earlier this month, where he was the title holder, ended at the
quarter-final stage and he withdrew from the Australian Open.
"Juan Martin Del Potro has undergone surgery on his left wrist
in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to resolve the
problem of the pain caused when he hit his two-handed backhand,"
the Argentine's press spokesman Jorge Viale said in a statement.
Tuesday’s corrective surgery was the third operation carried out
by surgeon Richard Berger on Del Potro’s wrists, the first
having been on his right wrist in 2010 following his 2009 U.S.
Open victory.
The 26-year-old Argentine missed most of the 2014 season after a
first operation on his left wrist last February but his comeback
this year was beset by pain when he played his backhand.
Viale said Del Potro, who published a photo on his Facebook page
of himself in his hospital bed with Berger standing beside him,
would begin his rehabilitation in two weeks but gave no time for
yet another comeback.
(Reporting by Luis Ampuero; Writing by Rex Gowar; editing by
Amlan Chakraborty)
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