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tennisconnected.com: Haas Has Hip Surgery; May Retire
Former world No. 2 German and winner of 12 ATP World Tour titles, Tommy Haas underwent hip surgery last week in Colorado and will be sidelined for at least six months.
Battling various shoulder and knee injuries throughout the years, Haas could hang up his rackets if he doesn’t see a vast improvement in his ailing hip.
Acquiring US citizenship last month, the Hamburg, Germany born Haas also announced that he will marry actress Sara Foster in the summer.
Currently ranked No. 18 in the world, Haas will use his protective top 20 ranking if he decides to continue competition.
Haas told the German tabloid Bild that “the pain was too great,” when referring to his hip.
Career of Tommy Haas is now in serious doubt after the German has undergone hip surgery that will almost definitely see him sidelined for the majority of the 2010 season.
The soon-to-be 32 year-old was operated on by Dr. Marc J Phillipon at the Steadman Hawks Clinic in Colorado, with Haas telling the BBC; "I had to have the operation now. The pain was simply too great."
His agent Lars Schriewer said: "Tommy has been operated upon by the best doctor in this field.
"He is in the best of hands. Everything else remains to be seen."
Obviously Tommy Haas shock loss against Gabashvili didn't go down well with the German team today. He has been dropped from the Davis Cup team with Germany instead going with Kohlschreiber and Becker for their tie against France...
Tommy Haas has become an American citizen and can play Davis Cup, amazingly, for the USA from September 2011 onwards.
On his blog, the veteran said;
"...The fun thing about the story is, incidentally, that my good friend Alex Bose...was sworn in along with me. We go the same route for almost twenty years, Alex came in 1991 to the School of Nick Bollettieri and got his green card as I did in 2004. Logical that we have been together now American citizens, right?"
"Of course I would not have done this if my German passport could not have been retained. But since this was guaranteed, I now have two nationalities, and could continue to play for the German Davis Cup team. When that happens, I'll let Patrick Kuhnen (German Davis Cup captain) know of my decision."
On an off topic, why on earth is Tommy Haas playing in Santiago (clay) next week? He has a series of hard court events starting the week after, and has some issues with his back.
Apparently, Jaime Fillol (tourny director) likes to spring the occasional surprise packet entrant, but I still doubt Haas actually rocks up.
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