Britain’s James Ward, part of the team that won the Davis Cup for Great Britain, is to make his tennis comeback in the near future. The thirty year-old has not played since September due to a number of factors, including a knee injury.
Ward, speaking with The Daily Mail, “I’ve had this knee problem for a long time and to be honest we still don’t know exactly what it is, it’s been getting a lot better and I should be ready by late March.”
Ward has been working with the former head physio of Premier League football club Crystal Palace in an attempt to cure the knee problem instead of looking for a coach.
The Briton is currently without a coach, after his former coach Darren Tandy was tragically diagnosed with cancer, and then passed away before Christmas.
As well as the Davis Cup successes, where he has singles wins against the likes of John Isner and Sam Querrey, Ward has also reached the third round of Wimbledon, and the semi-finals of the Queens Club tournament, defeating Stan Wawrinka in that run.
However, Ward, who’s career-high ranking sits at No.89, is now ranked outside the Top 400, though he will be able to play nine tournaments with a protected ranking of somewhere in the Top 200 on account of his injury absence.
