Bryllup er farlige greier

Kim Clijsters’ deltakelse i French Open henger i en tynn tråd etter at hun skadet seg nylig. Ikke på tennisbanen, men i et bryllup.

Som Chris Chase skriver:

A tip for all women’s tennis players: Don’t go to Western Europe and expect to make it out healthy.

Serena Williams skadet som kjent foten i fjor sommer, da hun skar seg på en glassbit på restaurant. Clijsters og Williams bruker hele livet på å spise riktig, trene riktig, sove mye, hyre rett trener/fysioterapeut/manager/treningspartner, tilpasse spilleprogrammet og terpe på taktikk, og så blir alt ødelagt av….en uheldig dansemanøver i et bryllup. En glassbit. Liten tue og alt det der.

En annen selvpåført skade, på banen, var da Mikhail Youzhny kakket seg i hodet etter et poeng i 2008.

Andre merkelige skader i tennishistorien, hentet fra tennis-prose.com og Sportingo (jeg gidder ikke oversette dem):

• Lleyton Hewitt cracked two ribs falling down a flight of stairs.
• James Blake ran into a net post and his face became paralyzed.
• Goran Ivanisivic closed a door on his finger and broke it.
• Tommy Haas had a ball fall out of his pocket in warmups and stepped on it, spraining his ankle and causing him to drop out of Wimbledon in the first round.
• Xavier Malisse had anxiety attacks in the semis of Wimbledon causing him to lose his chance to win Wimbledon.
• Kafelnikov supposedly broke knuckles punching a heavy bag.
• Belgian queen Kim Clijsters had to take two days off after tripping over her dog Diesel… while she was playing football.
• Goran Ivanisevic had to withdraw from a tournament in Miami in 2003 when he stepped on a sharp seashell as he strolled on a Florida beach.
• On another occasion the Croatian needed stitches when he tried to head the ball over the net only to bang heads with his doubles partner Mark Philippoussis, who was himself concussed.