US tennis player Sam Querrey is back practicing for his return to the ATP Tour after he cut two muscles in his right forearm in Thailand when he sat on a glass table that broke.
The world’s 25th-ranked player said on Tuesday he narrowly avoided damaging the nerve in his serving arm that would have ended his tennis career.
Querrey hurt himself on Sept. 28 after practicing at the Thailand Open. He sat on a couch before going to take a shower. Afterward, he didn’t want to sit back in the same sweaty spot on the couch to put on his socks and shoes.
So he fatefully plopped down on the glass table, and it shattered.
“I fell through it,” he recalled. “When I got up, there was a piece of glass in my arm. Blood was gushing out. I ran down to the trainer. The doctor came and we got the ambulance and went to the hospital.”
Querrey whipped out his cellphone to display a photo of the open wound before it was closed up with 25 stitches during an hour-long surgery in a Bangkok hospital. He cut 30 percent of two different muscles in his arm.
The evidence is a thin, red 7.5cm scar on the inside of his arm.
He says his arm feels good, although his serve isn’t quite where it was before the accident.
“My shoulder, it takes a while to warm it up and get that motion going,” he said. “Other than that I feel no difference in any part of my game.”
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