Yuki Bhambri to miss the start of the season due to a knee injury
The 26-year-old Yuki Bhambri has been one of the most talented players born in the early 90s, winning the junior Australian Open at the age of 16 in 2009 and becoming junior no. 1 in the following month. In April that year, the New Delhi native claimed his first Futures title, still before turning 17, and he finished the season inside the top-400, leading the new generation together with Bernard Tomic, Filip Krajinovic and Ryan Harrison. A year later, Yuki won the silver medal at the Youth Olympics in Singapore and he was already struggling with injuries that will plague his career and limit his potential.
Bhambri had to wait until July 2012 to enter the top-200 for the first time but he had to miss a few months of action in 2013 as well before finishing inside the top-200 after winning two Futures crowns and his first Challenger title in Traralgon. Things looked well at the beginning of 2014 as well when he won the Challenger in Chennai but more troubles were hidden just around the corner, missing the next five months and closing the season outside the top-200 once again. Playing healthy again in 2015, Yuki found the way to excel his game and crack the top-100 for the first time but he couldn't stay on that course in 2016, sidelined for six months with a right elbow injury to drop out from the top-500.
Recovered and eager to show his best tennis, Bhambri had a solid 2017 season and despite an ankle and right knee injuries in the year behind us he was ranked in the top-100 for six months, scoring his first Masters 1000 wins. Nonetheless, the Indian was pretty much sidelined in the second part of the year, retiring at Queen's against Milos Raonic and playing just three matches in the rest of the season due to a right knee injury. Yuki was forced to withdraw from the home Pune Open, failing to recover in time and enter the only ATP event in India. Yuki will know more about the state of his knee in 10 days time and he will provide more details about the potential comeback.
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2A8XGQ8
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