Someone on X assumed that this injury might be horrendous too, but I don’t know if that’s the case. We saw him training on grass (even if just once, which makes me think he won’t be ready at all, and when he was practicing Andy wasn’t with him), but he was training a lot more indoor (maybe due to the weather), so that made me think that we will see him back on hard court. However, I’m very confused and worried…
Well we know he’s played with it since DC so it’s clearly something minor which turned into something major. We also know it’s a tendon issue and they can be anywhere from 4 weeks to 12+ to fully heal. We’re at 8 from Barcelona and if you’re putting it to the latter end of the scale then he is within range of returning, it being healed and in theory it should be feeling about there.
So 1 extra week really could be ok!
I think the lack of training photos will be a combo of weather and the LTA giving privacy. It seems like all the photos we have of all the Brits were taken on the same day so it was clearly booked in as a media day. With the weather we’ve had he will have been training inside, and perhaps they want to be able to work on and test out his movement on grass before going into full match play. They can do more of that this week and definitely next week as the weather is set to improve a lot.
I would hold fire on presuming him to skip Wimbledon for now.