James Blake

[Otlichno]

It doesn't matter whether the injury is serious or not. An injury can and most likely will completely demolish any ounce of confidence you once had.

Than to regain that confidence constant change of serve motions and ground stroke motions might take place. Whether or not you can play at you're usual level with those ground strokes is hard to tell.

Still Blake should win, he's just in a completely different league to Robin.

[djarvik]

Found it. He had a slight tear in the meniscus. A really minor injury and surgery Granted, we all "feel" our injuries differently...but I know a lot about bad knees. This is not as serious of a problem.

My big surgery was to remove an ACL which had a complete tear. I had 9 month recovery....meaning no sports for 9 month. Then it takes a few good month to just get back to normal form. I also had 2 minor surgeries with about 2-3 month recovery each. I never went for an artificial ACL or a cadaver, since there was a 50% chance that I would never be able to bend my knee.

Now, I am doing just fine with only 1 ligament holding my knee. I learned to move avoiding "soft" spots and put more pressure to my other knee.

[djarvik]

It doesn't matter whether the injury is serious or not. An injury can and most likely will completely demolish any ounce of confidence you once had.

Than to regain that confidence constant change of serve motions and ground stroke motions might take place. Whether or not you can play at you're usual level with those ground strokes is hard to tell.

Still Blake should win, he's just in a completely different league to Robin.

Not true. He mostly had to play with a little pain, constant pain, but not major pain. More of a discomfort. He finally said - enough, I want to get writ of the pain. Went for surgery.

Confidence in knees that will affect you when you have ACL problems. The reasoning behind it is because you knee "gives in" when there is a pain in ACL. Body just "shuts" the knee down, causing you to fall. I went thru this and this is the confidence killer. You just never know when you gonna make that step and not feel a solid ground, falling on the floor in pain.

[coke4]

Found it. He had a slight tear in the meniscus. A really minor injury and surgery Granted, we all "feel" our injuries differently...but I know a lot about bad knees. This is not as serious of a problem.

My big surgery was to remove an ACL which had a complete tear. I had 9 month recovery....meaning no sports for 9 month. Then it takes a few good month to just get back to normal form. I also had 2 minor surgeries with about 2-3 month recovery each. I never went for an artificial ACL or a cadaver, since there was a 50% chance that I would never be able to bend my knee.

Now, I am doing just fine with only 1 ligament holding my knee. I learned to move avoiding "soft" spots and put more pressure to my other knee.

You werent playing at this level, an surgery when you are 21/22 is very serious, i had a knee injury a few years back, i am around a second slower and was never as good at football as i was. With the amount of wear and tear the knee gets any knee injury is serious.

[SlicerITST]

Actually, he had at least 2 surgeries. Like i said, he picked up a knee injury when he was high in the ranking. It was misdiagnosed at first. They told him he didnt need a surgery but just time to rest. He took a break and tried to come back a few times. This was from april 2008 to july 2008

Eventually he had a surgery in July 2008. Every time he would start training his knee would fill up with fluid though. Another rest period didnt help cause a challenger he tried to play ended in problems with the same knee. April 2009 he had his second surgery. Only in december 2009 he would play his first challenger again.

He didnt play any tournaments for 1 year and 2 months. That was not for funzies... You cant just say he was only out for 2 months. That would be unfair to Haase besides that it is incorrect. This guy had to pay every surgery and other treatment himself. Doctors doubted that he could ever play tennis again. Even nowadays he needs to adjust his training a lot to not overload his knee meaning its hard for him to reach his full potential.

Im not biased Al. Im no fan of Haase at all and he is truly not a talent like de Bakker.

[djarvik]

You are right, it appears he was out for a longer period then I initially thought.

So what was his final diagnoses with the knee? ...all I am finding is a slight tear in the meniscus.

If he had a serious problem, then it is a different story.

Accumulation of fluids is normal after surgery, it's normal response from a human body. I had to go every 3 days for 2 month to have the fluid taken out with a surange.

[SlicerITST]

To be honest, i have no idea what it was exactly. I cant really find a good news article about it. Just articles saying he had surgery or a few quotes from him hoping he would be back soon. And i know little about knee injuries.

Id have to find a proper interview with him to know i guess. All these internet sources usually just rewrite the same source.

I think i remember the build up of fluids was the main problem. For almost a year he had it and it kept coming back after a period of training.

[djarvik]

ahhhh Doctor told me about it. Sometimes what happens is that these fluid buildups don't go away. Its OK if they are there after the surgery but they should lessen and then go away completely. This could be a side effect to a surgery he had done initially to "clean" the tear in the meniscus. This really sucks. I have pictures at home, that show the difference of my knees 2 month after the surgery, the "bad" knee looks literally 2x or even 3x times larger then the healthy one. Filled with nasty fluid.

If that is the case with him, then I really feel for him. That fluid makes you feel like you need double the effort to bend the knee

[Kevin Henry]

James Blake is Rob Blake's brother.