“The problem is that, always, I can’t stand straps,” explained the Essonne native in Melbourne. “And there, they made me one that was a little too tight. I think I had a compressed nerve, at the level of the fifth metatarsal. I don’t really know yet, but the more the match progressed, the more my foot hurt. It started in the second set. From the middle of the third set, I couldn’t really move. And at the start of the fourth, when I wanted to get up from my bench, I couldn’t. I couldn’t put my foot on the ground anymore, there was no point in continuing. »
We didn’t know about this “weak point” in Arthur Fils but the young Frenchman confided that he had always had a holy horror of straps, bandages and other ankle braces, which can prove to be quite problematic when you practice such a traumatic sport at a high level. than tennis. The person concerned must have seen the problem coming because the day before, during his training, he had to take off his strap after twenty minutes.
“There, it was already better, I lasted an hour and a half,” he continued. “But I can’t stand anything, it’s pretty crazy. The most frustrating thing is that it’s not a big injury, I know it will get better in a few hours and I’m absolutely not worried about the future. That’s what’s really annoying. »
A priori, Arthur Fils’ program for the coming weeks is therefore not in question, and in particular his participation in the Davis Cup match against Brazil, at the beginning of February in Orléans. But, before even continuing to polish the contours of his wonderfully polished game, he will have to seriously look into this strap thing…
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