“I’m shitty from the hip,” said Marcelo “Chino” Ríos in an interview with Third. She had surgery and was “fine” for a while, “but I don’t have cartilage anymore and it’s touching bone to bone in my hip.”
In fact, that discomfort forced him to cancel the exhibition match he had scheduled with Australian Nick Kyrgios (77th) for September 30.
However, now he has planned a duel with the Spanish Álex Corretja for July 1, which will be at the Gran Arena Monticello. Faced with his physical discomfort, “I found the solution and cache that I can endure and I can train for a month in peace and play”.
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So, to get on well, “I’m taking it easy the first month and the next month I’ll be with everything.” However, she suddenly blurted out, that was not all: “Besides, I’m thinking of something that may be crazy…”.
“It’s crazy that I control and I’ve discussed it with my wife,” he started saying.
“And I want to do it for myself, a personal satisfaction of mine: I want to try once more to be the oldest to win a professional tournament,” he revealed. “Last time they offered me wild cards (invitation card) in Kitzbühel and Umag, but it is not what I want and I have to be realistic”, I raise regarding both ATP 250 tournaments.
So “I want to try to win a challenger, the smallest it is, or a Future”, he glimpsed at 46 years old. “I’m not going to go play in the Congo or Egypt either…”.
When asked if “the physicist will give it”, the former number 1 replied that “it all depends on how my body reacts”, but the question is that “I want to do it and the starting point is going to be the exhibition with Corretja”.
Anyway, “I want to prove to myself that I’m capable of doing it,” he confessed. “Maybe I don’t make it, but when I play I feel good.” And he made it clear that “I don’t want to go back to the tour, but rather win a professional tournament, even if it’s the worst. I wish it was in the United States and on cement, but last time they also offered me to play in Argentina”.
To achieve this, “I plan to train with everything,” he assured. “I didn’t want to tell it, but I’m doing it because it’s entertaining and I think I can do it.”
“I hope I don’t shit my hip,” he closed.