French Open thoughts on Quaintance's return

[coriolanus92]

Don't know how many of you philistines watch tennis, but there's a French woman playing Coco Gauff right now in the semis. She tore her ACL one week before last year's French Open, so the one year anniversary of the tear would have been two weeks ago. From what I can find, her first tournament back started on April 12th of this year. She won her first match and lost the second. Not sure when she started practicing, but it's reasonable to assume she was all the way back by the end of March. So a reasonable estimate is that she was back roughly 10 months after the injury. Her career earnings before the French Open were under $200k, so it's pretty likely that she didn't have the same rehab resources that Quaintance has.

If he's on the same timeline, that would put him back just before Christmas. Just food for thought.

 

[wardlow]

I’ll take any good news regarding JQ. Him being able to go 100% around Christmas is HUGE.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Are any of Kentucky's early games on clay?

 

[chasingwildcat]

I hope he can go fully healthy in SEC plays

 

[coriolanus92]

Are any of Kentucky's early games on clay?

That's a great question. It would certainly slow down our fast breaks.

 

[BlueSince92]

Dr. Keith Baar got his Ph.D. about ten years ago investigating the functions of mTOR, which we’d recently discovered studying rapamycin. In 2017 he pioneered research specifically applying that information to sports injury recovery protocols. They discovered how to make huge gains in terms of how much faster people with tendon and ligament injuries can recover to full strength compared to what was considered possible previously. But people have really only started putting these techniques into practice in the industry in the last year or so. Most previous data including everything from outside this country is probably irrelevant at this point assuming Quaintance is in the care of people who are near the leading edge of their field and know about this.

This is why I really do expect Quaintance to be absolutely 100% healthy by September as his doctors originally said. That is a perfectly reasonable, and in fact pretty conservative timeline under the latest protocols.

I do expect him to be used sparingly through December just as a super-conservative added precaution because JQ is worth so very very much in terms of career earning potential and since we have BG anyway. But I sincerely doubt there is any authentic question about whether he will be ready. He’s young; he has a human body; he’s full of mTOR—he will be ready as long as his doctors don’t have their heads in the sand. Other possibilities are just not realistic in America in 2025.

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[St.PatterSoN-54-]

We talkin' bout TENNIS?

 

[d2atTech]

Don't know how many of you philistines watch tennis, but there's a French woman playing Coco Gauff right now in the semis. She tore her ACL one week before last year's French Open, so the one year anniversary of the tear would have been two weeks ago. From what I can find, her first tournament back started on April 12th of this year. She won her first match and lost the second. Not sure when she started practicing, but it's reasonable to assume she was all the way back by the end of March. So a reasonable estimate is that she was back roughly 10 months after the injury. Her career earnings before the French Open were under $200k, so it's pretty likely that she didn't have the same rehab resources that Quaintance has.

If he's on the same timeline, that would put him back just before Christmas. Just food for thought.

I don't really watch much tennis anymore (played competitively a long time however), but I feel for that girl. These tears are rough even for the best athletes, let alone mediocre ones like me. I broke my ankle the first time in HS, never could move the same way on the court. Everything I did to compensate accentuated the weaknesses: e.g. playing significantly more at the baseline. If JQ comes back this calendar year, it's a testament to his grit.

 

[kyleb740]

Don't know how many of you philistines watch tennis, but there's a French woman playing Coco Gauff right now in the semis. She tore her ACL one week before last year's French Open, so the one year anniversary of the tear would have been two weeks ago. From what I can find, her first tournament back started on April 12th of this year. She won her first match and lost the second. Not sure when she started practicing, but it's reasonable to assume she was all the way back by the end of March. So a reasonable estimate is that she was back roughly 10 months after the injury. Her career earnings before the French Open were under $200k, so it's pretty likely that she didn't have the same rehab resources that Quaintance has.

If he's on the same timeline, that would put him back just before Christmas. Just food for thought.

Yeah Coco Gauff has made like $25 million in her career. I think she has any rehab resources she wants

 

[Fox2monk]

Don't know how many of you philistines watch tennis, but there's a French woman playing Coco Gauff right now in the semis. She tore her ACL one week before last year's French Open, so the one year anniversary of the tear would have been two weeks ago. From what I can find, her first tournament back started on April 12th of this year. She won her first match and lost the second. Not sure when she started practicing, but it's reasonable to assume she was all the way back by the end of March. So a reasonable estimate is that she was back roughly 10 months after the injury. Her career earnings before the French Open were under $200k, so it's pretty likely that she didn't have the same rehab resources that Quaintance has.

If he's on the same timeline, that would put him back just before Christmas. Just food for thought.

You realize Coco Gauff is one of the top women’s tennis players in the world right? She’s won 20 million in career earnings and her endorsements are crazy. She’s won earned 32 million dollars last year alone.

 

[wildcatknh]

Yeah Coco Gauff has made like $25 million in her career. I think she has any rehab resources she wants

I think maybe you misread the post. Coco was not the one with the ACL injury ... it was her opponent.

 

[UKSouthpaw]

I hope JQ doesn't return until he is physically and mentally ready. RTP sooner than 9 months post-op still carries a higher re-injury risk than if he waits a bit longer. Ligamentization is only in the 70% range at the 6-month mark, regardless of the health of the athlete.

 

[coriolanus92]

You realize Coco Gauff is one of the top women’s tennis players in the world right? She’s won 20 million in career earnings and her endorsements are crazy. She’s won earned 32 million dollars last year alone.

You didn’t read closely enough. It was Coco‘s opponent I was talking about.

 

[Wildcats1st]

I hope JQ doesn't return until he is physically and mentally ready. RTP sooner than 9 months post-op still carries a higher re-injury risk than if he waits a bit longer. Ligamentization is only in the 70% range at the 6-month mark, regardless of the health of the athlete.

It all depends if n the severity of the injury. I think I read awhile back that his injury was a partial tear. That will have a faster rehab time and RTP as you say

 

[kywildcat41035]

Don't know how many of you philistines watch tennis, but there's a French woman playing Coco Gauff right now in the semis. She tore her ACL one week before last year's French Open, so the one year anniversary of the tear would have been two weeks ago. From what I can find, her first tournament back started on April 12th of this year. She won her first match and lost the second. Not sure when she started practicing, but it's reasonable to assume she was all the way back by the end of March. So a reasonable estimate is that she was back roughly 10 months after the injury. Her career earnings before the French Open were under $200k, so it's pretty likely that she didn't have the same rehab resources that Quaintance has.

If he's on the same timeline, that would put him back just before Christmas. Just food for thought.

@littlecreek has the best insight on this type of injury and recovery. When this has been brought up in the several other threads he talked about his son going through this.

 

[H00SIER-Cat]

Are any of Kentucky's early games on clay?

The late, great Joe Dean talked about playing some of his high school games on dirt. Also I think the first Olympic basketball games were outdoors on dirt.