Serbian tennis player Janko Tipsarevic has had two operations on a benign tumor that has sidelined him since last year, the Belgrade daily Blic said on Friday in its online edition.
Tipsarevic told the newspaper that the tumor, a fibromatosis on his left heel, had been bothering him since January 2013.
He had it removed in June, but it reappeared on the same spot as he tried returning to his feet. “I was operated again in Frankfurt and I hope all will be well this time,” he said. “Trouble is that a fibromatosis may keep returning.” The former ATP’s number 8, in April 2012, and a part of the Davis Cup-winning Serbian team in 2010 said that the “agony of injury” was aggravated by uncertainty over his return to the court.
Tipsarevic, 30, said that for “almost a year” he has been unable to walk without crutches and that pain has forced him into a wheelchair since May.
