Melanie Oudin’s Health Was Put At Risk By Overtraining

Written by: Bob Larson Tennis on 9th December 2013

Melanie Oudin's Health Was Put At Risk By Overtraining

epa02691868 Melanie Oudin of the USA returns to Andrea Petkovic from Germany during a relegation match Germany vs. USA at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany, 17 April 2011. EPA/Marijan Murat |

Editors note: The Carson training facility for the USTA has its share of walking wounded too .. What’s up USTA and your medical and training teams ?

Melanie Oudin’s career could be in trouble. The 2009 US Open quarterfinalist recently revealed that she is suffering from rhabdomyolysis, which might be caused by too much exertion and can lead to extensive kidney damage. Oudin is now sidelined and thinks she might have over trained when putting in sometimes more than six hours a day on court and off.

Doctors have limited her to one hour a day of running, but she isn’t allowed to play tennis or lift weights.

The 22-year-old American might not be able to make it back for the Australian summer tournaments and isn’t exactly sure when she’ll be able to come back at all.

”My arms are so weak. I can barely carry anything. I have no strength at all,” she told the AP. ”My muscles are completely ruptured in both arms. The good thing, though, is no other part of my body is affected.”

Oudin thinks about three weeks ago when lifting weights, that she might have brought on the trauma.

”We did a pretty hard lifting session, upper body for about an hour and a half. It was too much for me, too soon, because I hadn’t done lifting in too long,” she said. “ I also guess I was a little dehydrated – that’s what the doctors think. And so my muscles were starting to break down. My arms super-swollen; they looked like balloons. They were locked, I never had never felt that kind of pain before.”

While the Georgia native wants to come back and maybe even crack the top 35 again. she realizes it might take some time.

“No one really knows exactly how long,” Oudin said. ”But I’m definitely not going to take a chance of getting this again. If I try to do too much, I could get it again; the recovery time could be twice as long. Hopefully. I’ll come back stronger than before.”

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December 9, 2013 at 10:58 am

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