After defeating Felix Auger Aliassime and winning the Caja Mágica, the Russian tennis player revealed that he had a virus all week and described his victory as a “miracle.”
Andrey Rublev is the great winner of the Madrid Masters 1000 in this 2024 edition that just ended, his second title in the most important tournament after the Gland Slams. His victory over Felix Auger Aliassime was huge, but not only because of his week of tennis and the great negative streak of four matches he ended, but also because He described it as “a miracle” possibly thanks to the doctors who treated him.
“Inside me, there is only medicine”said the Russian and surprised everyone after the victory over Manolo Santana in an interview with the Spanish media. “Winning this title is a miracle. I’m usually a negative person, but this time I’m proud of myself”he added.
The tennis player’s week started well with his first matches on the clay of the Caja Mágica, but then he contracted a virus from which he never recovered and explained that For the final one they even had to anesthetize one of his fingers. “My toe swelled up and doubled in size, so the pressure was on the bone. I couldn’t even put my foot in the shoe. The sensation was like something was broken. So they gave me anesthesia, so it is indestructible.” “At least I can play without thinking,” expressed in the same interview.
Then he continued: “I’m still sick. This Monday, I’m going to the hospital in Madrid to see what’s wrong. I haven’t recovered for nine days and it’s not normal. When I get sick it lasts for three or four days, it’s gone. I’ve never felt worse in my life. I don’t know if it’s tonsils or what. My head hurts from all the injections. “There’s only medicine for me.”.
The bad moment of Rublev’s health still brought him somethingpositive‘, he assured himself that it allowed him to keep his heat under control: “I don’t have the energy to do anything except one thing, which in this case is to play tennis. I don’t have the energy to say come on, complain, for anything… Since I was sick, I can say it helped me this time”.
Rublev’s massive victory against Felix Auger Aliassime to establish himself in Madrid
Andrey Rublev, seventh seed, finished this Sunday a comeback against Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (4-6, 7-5 and 7-5)who took advantage of a good start, and was crowned in Madrid, where he achieved the second Masters 1000 title in his career.
The Russian, that is On Monday he will emerge as the sixth player in the worldit took two hours and forty-eight minutes to seal his victory and inherit the Caja Mágica throne that Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz had achieved two years earlier.
Source: Tycsports
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