In these minutes Andrey Rublev is playing the quarterfinals in Stockholm tournament against Stan Wawrinka, but on the eve of the match, the Russian had shared a shocking confidence in a press conference, revealing that he had undergone surgery after the US Open.
Andrey had already said in recent weeks that he had undergone a delicate surgery, which could have also involved an amputation, but he had not specified in which part of the body. Just before the match with the Swiss champion, Rublev talked about his problem, which fortunately was resolved for the best, revealing:
“Now I feel better, everything went well. I don’t know how to say it intelligently, let’s say in a funny way. I almost lost a testicle. I’m very lucky because they say you only have five or six hours if the blood stops circulating there and then they have to amputate. I don’t know why I said: let’s go to the hospital to see because I have a strange feeling. They operated on me in three or four hours. Everything went well. The last thing I did before they put me to sleep was to sign a paper authorizing the amputation of my testicle. That was the last thing I saw before the operation,” he revealed.
Andrey Rublev describes how he almost lost his “ball” and had to have emergency surgery to avoid amputation. He had to sign a form saying it was ok for them to remove it before he went under. pic.twitter.com/eTMDhoMQzA
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As mentioned, in recent weeks, during the Shanghai Rolex Masters, the Russian had spoken of amputation, without revealing which part of the body or organ was involved in the problem.
“I was training and preparing for China. Then shortly before departure, something unexpected happened out of nowhere. This in itself, as they said later, usually happens in children. I don’t know how to explain it better. I’ll try to be even clearer and say that, in general, surgery was necessary, which, if it had not been performed, would certainly have had consequences. There could even have been an amputation,” he said.
