Mardy Fish Says He is Coming Along

Written by: Staff on 28th June 2012

Mardy Fish Says He is Coming Along

epa03286158 Mardy Fish of the US takes on James Ward of Britain during their second round match for the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 28 June 2012. EPA/JONATHAN BRADY |

Heart-scare American Mardy Fish says that he is slowly recovering confidence at Wimbledon after a medical procedure to correct a heartbeat gone wild. The 30-year-old American stressed that it is taking time for him to be fully at ease with his health even though doctors have given him the all-clear.

Fish underwent an invasive treatment under general anesthesia to correct his heartbeat in hopes of ending a frightening series of spring episodes when he would wake up in the middle of the night with his pulse racing as if he had just run a sprint.

“Naturally I don’t think I’ll feel as comfortable,” he admitted after traveling for the first time in months. “I’m not sleeping in my own bed and things like that. The hardest part is just trusting that everything is fine, because it is, and everything structurally is fine.”

Fish added that he had to “convince myself that everything is fine and that the doctors have given me the go-ahead on everything.

“This past couple of months have tested a lot of things. I have gone on the good days from missing (playing) the French Open to the bad days where I thought about not coming back or when was I going to come back. I was still in the top 10 in the world, and that part was hard. It made it probably harder.”

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