Wednesday 11th May 2011
Tough day today as the problem with Devan’s wrist flared up again and stopped us from doing as much as we would have liked to do.
We arrived at the Academy today just after 9.15am and hit the gym as usual to warm up. We did an extended warm up this morning as we knew we wouldn’t get a court before 10am so we added in some movement, reaction and balance work to Devan’s normal bike and dynamic stretching routine. Before we started on court we also made sure that Devan’s wrist was fully warmed up and then bang on 10am Carlos managed to get us a court. The session started well and the wrist was holding up but as we added a little more pressure it started to ache so Devan made the very professional decision to stop and ice it. We tried to go back on court and hit some serves but again as she went into a harder flatter 1st serve it hurt again so we decided to stop and rest it. The USTA then allowed Devan to see one of their physiotherapist; he diagnosed it as slight wrist tendonitis and recommended that she rested it and got a massage on her arm and shoulders.
After showering and changing we headed off site to get some lunch before returning back to the hotel to rest and ice her wrist and forearm again. After we’d had a break it was still aching so we decided to not hit again but to go back to the Academy to go into the gym and also book a sports massage. We completed a very tough 3 sets of abdominal Planks and Supermans and then Devan completed all of her per-hab band exercises before she had her massage appointment. The therapist said that she was very tight in her forearm and that’s causing the pain in her wrist so she needs to keep warming it up and stretching thoroughly as well as icing it at the end of every session.
Tomorrow is our planned rest day so it’s probably come just at the right time to give her a break and hopefully let her body recover. She’s now moved up to number 1 on the Delray Beach qualies list so if she can move up 1 more place she’ll be in the main draw and it’ll give her a couple of more days before she needs to compete.
