Svitolina: It hurts to even walk

Elina Svitolina has spoken out about the injury that is preventing her from continuing to compete at the Australian Open. We remind you that the first racket of Ukraine played only three games in the 1/8 of the tournament against the Czech tennis player Linda Noskova, after which she left the court with tears in her eyes.

According to the Ukrainian, he could not continue the meeting due to severe back problems.

“I had a spasm, or I don’t know exactly what it is, but it was like a shooting pain in the first game, on the last two points. I couldn’t do anything. I held my back. sad.

I felt something, but it was quite normal. In the fourth round you have a certain stiffness in one place.

It’s normal, nothing special. It didn’t seem like a big problem then. It’s like I’ve never experienced anything like this, it’s so painful. I’ve had back injuries before from being tired the day after a fight, but this injury came out of nowhere. I feel like someone shot me in the back, yeah.

I hope it’s only short term. I do not know. Maybe spasms or something. But I hope I can return to training, maybe in a week.

Of course, I still have a long flight. It won’t do any good. In some ways I’ll have to take it one step at a time to recover, get a scan once I get home and move on. I hope it’s nothing serious.

bad He was really stunned. My lower back is completely stuck, like it’s blocked. So yes, I’m in a lot of pain even walking and turning around. I can’t move from side to side. Very strange.

Physically I feel good. Yes, I think I’m doing everything right. I had a good off-season. I trained hard. These things happen unexpectedly. The problem doesn’t seem to be building up anymore, I don’t have any back pain. It really came out of nowhere.

You just have to take your time to see what opportunities the next tournament will bring. I have to take care of my back and also my ankle because it doesn’t move – I mean, that’s good, but when it’s fresh from an injury, it takes a little time. Then, you know, your body starts to compensate a little bit. Maybe it has something to do with it.

So I need to know more about my back injury and it’s hard to say right now. But of course I want to get back physically as strong as I was before and feel like I’m doing everything. Injuries, of course, will come and go, but hopefully they won’t be permanent.

Now, I will go home, get a scan and hope that nothing serious happens, and hopefully I can return to tournaments as soon as possible,” Svetolina was quoted as saying from the ASAP text press conference.