There’s been a lot of players who have come back from a major injury and ranking drop, famously Agassi.

But those who seem injury prone often seem to stay that way, but have good spells.

Pegula, Nishikori, Boulter to be fair you can chuck Murray in that list because even before the hip was a thing with him he’d struggled with his back.

Don't even want to imagine how he feels mentally during all this time off if we as fans are this distraught about it

You’re right, it’s got to be tough for him to be preparing for a return and then not get the go ahead or have someone’s opinion lean you back to realistic caution.

Will never forget Evo sacrificing his ranking to send off a legend in style. That Olympic run was so so epic!!

From Queens in the blazing sun to Nottingham when you laughed at me for taking a full set to eat a packet of mini cheddars just so I didn’t have to wear my mask in Covid times, despite having no one else sat near me and being outside, you were always entertaining and brought something different to the tennis court.

I miss him so much 💔🥲

Totally agree!

I think the Delgy decision makes more sense when you put it in the injury context. He would have been paying an expensive coach for doing very little because there’s nothing he could do. It was probably a 6 month period with a review and when he’s had no chance to make any real progress in the coaching side of things because of the injuries it’s probably just as financial as anything else. Why pay out lots for very little when you can get the same support from the cheaper LTA staff?

If he can get back to being fully fit, I think plenty of coaches would want to work with Jack so I don’t worry about him having future offers.

It does feel like the Andy partnership is potentially being cut short. But if he did play Queens he wouldn’t have played Eastbourne so it’s a bit of a wait and see situation still.

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'm not fully clued up on the PR system either, but I thought it was 6 months from the last time he played which was Barcelona so it would take him to like mid Oct...

I'd honestly rather have him work up from the challengers because if he can get fully fit he'd be back in no time at all, and ngl it would be kinda fun to watch.

No chance, they'd wildcard him in an instant.

It sounds like his body is just really fucking slow to heal.

He’s said he wants an extra week. We can give him an extra week. If in a weeks time there’s still been no progress then we panic, ok? 😂😅😩🙃

Damn I’d missed that - too busy watching the women!