TOYOTA Thailand Open: Prannoy Fights Through Pain
A hurting rib and a painful fall could not stop HS Prannoy from upstaging Jonatan Christie in the opening round of the TOYOTA Thailand Open.
· DEV SUKUMAR
Prannoy, who’d had COVID-19 in November, has been feeling its after-effects – mainly pain in his ribcage, which he surmises is due to a muscle strain caused by coughing continuously. Today he played with that pain throughout, and to make matters worse, suffered a bad fall during a rally which gave Christie match point in the third game.
He received treatment on his left shoulder, and went on to take the match – his first win over Christie in their last four matches.
“I haven’t practised the last five days. The rib has been paining pretty badly post-COVID, but we’ve been trying all sorts of things (to heal it). Probably it got inflamed and the muscles inside are strained because I had continuous cough. I’ll have to go back and check. There’s been no practice at all.