World number two Novak Djokovic is playing the waiting game these past few days and has yet to know whether he will need to take a break from tennis in order to rehabilitate his right wrist injury.
Last week, Djokovic was not able to defend the Monte Carlo Masters title after losing in the semifinals to Roger Federer. The Serb played in the match with heavy strapping on his right wrist and was noticeably struggling with his serve or retun.
“I just rest now. I cannot play tennis for some time. How long, I don’t know. It’s really not in my hands anymore,” Djokovic said. “I’m going to rest and see when it can heal 100 percent, then I will be back on the court.”
Djokovic said that injury does not need a surgery.
“Well, the good thing is I don’t need to have a surgery. I don’t have any rupture or something like that,” he said. “I’m going to go see doctors tonight and then tomorrow again have another MRI (scan), see if anything changed in this seven days since I had the last one.”
Djokovic said that he’s felt the pain on his wrist for about two weeks but felt that it wasn’t serious enough for him to pull of the Monte Carlo Masters, a title he won for the first time last year after ending Rafael Nadal’s eight-year reign in the ATP Masters 1000 event.
“The pain was there every single day from 10 days ago. At some stages it was very painful,” he said. “I didn’t want to pull out (against Federer) because then people start talking different things about me and my withdraws and so forth. That was the main reason.”
