Pablo Carreno Busta blames the ATP for the constant changing of balls as the cause of his injury which has kept him out since February 2023

Pablo Carreno Busta is currently playing in the 2023 Malaga Challenger.

Pablo Carreno Busta blames the ATP for the constant changing of balls as the cause of his injury which has kept him out since February 2023

Pablo Carreno Busta (Source: Tennis.com)

Pablo Carreno-Busta has been injured since the very beginning of this season. It has been eight months since he last appeared in a competitive tournament and he has now decided to play in the final phase of the Challenger Circuit 2023 to make a comeback to tennis and get back in form. He is currently playing in the Malaga Challenger. 

Pablo Carreno has been injured since February 13, 2023. He incurred an injury to his right elbow at the very beginning of the season and played the entirety of the initial phase of the season that way. The Spaniard won the first round of the Australian Open but after that, he lost two back-to-back matches, following which he decided to take a break to fully recover. 

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In his recent interview, however, the Spaniard made a shocking claim, saying that the ATP’s constant change of balls between tournaments might have had something to do with his injury. “I’m sure the balls have something to do with my injury. For example, before Roland Garros I was training with some balls at the Academy to recover from the injury and it was going well, I was playing sets, and I switched to the Roland Garros balls to start training with them and after 20 minutes I had to stop because It had become inflamed again,” Carreno said. (H/T: Puntodebreak)

He went on to say that things are worse in the Challenger circuit but ATP is no good either. No two same balls are used in two different tournaments and sometimes the balls are even changed in between a single tournament. This definitely goes on to have an influence on the injuries of some players. 

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Pablo Carreno reveals how he spent an entire year without playing tennis 

Pablo Carreno revealed that although it has been a complicated year, he has not been totally unemployed. He continued to train and recover from his injury. The Spaniard accepted that he has had phases where he was unemployed but that was not for more than four weeks at a time. 

Pablo Carreno Busta
Pablo Carreno Busta (Source: Tennis Majors)

“It has been especially hard mentally because it seemed like I would be able to compete and then I wouldn’t,” said Carreno. He revealed that it often looked like he was recovering but then the situation would just get worse. He had tried to make a comeback in the Indian Wells, the Madrid Open, and also in the Winston-Salem, but in vain. 

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