Monday, August 25, 2008

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

MONO A MONO

Federer disclosed that he had contracted mononucleosis in January 2008 - seven months ago.

Since then, he's declared himself fit and has made no mention of it in his recent spate of losses, but this bug is tenacious. As I wrote earlier, it took my daughter almost one year to get back to full strength. Same with Ancic -I thought!

Croatia's Mario Ancic withdrew from the U.S. Open on Tuesday with a recurrence of mononucleosis, the second straight year the 25th-ranked player was forced to miss the tournament.

Ancic, a former Wimbledon semifinalist, was slowed throughout the 2007 season because of mononucleosis.