Popping too many painkillers can pop up trouble for players
use are risks of developing kidney failure and hypertension, as well as stomach ulcers.” Goran Ivanisevic said taking anti-inflammatories was a necessary evil.
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“When I won Wimbledon (in 2001), I was smashing them,” he said. “I took them like candies. After a while I didn’t even feel it, it didn’t do me any good. But when you have a chance, in my case, to win Wimbledon, you take whatever, you don’t care.”
Andy Murray is one of the more careful ones. “I only take an anti-inflammatory now and then if I’m having problems with my back or my hips,” he said.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, twice a semi-finalist at Wimbledon, agreed. “I just hate these kind of things,” the Frenchman said. “I take them really if I will play a semis or a final (if) I have something and I don’t want the pain at all. Otherwise, I would not take it at all. I prefer to feel the pain and see how (the injury) is.
“In the past, I had so many problems in my body, I took them sometimes. But it doesn’t mean you don’t have anything. It’s just a fake. Sometimes you do worse to your body when you take these kind of things.” (Selected matches) Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, vs. Simona Halep (5), Romania Fernando Verdasco, Spain, vs. Stan Wawrinka (3), Switzerland Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, vs. Venus Williams (6), US Serena Williams (1), US, vs. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, vs. James Murray (2), Britain
Denisa Allertova, Czech Republic, vs. Ana Ivanovic (29), Serbia Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, vs. Sam Querrey, US Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, vs. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina