(Reuters) – South Africa’s former world number five Kevin Anderson said on Friday he will be out of action for the foreseeable future after surgery on his right knee to repair a torn meniscus.
Anderson, who missed the second half of the 2019 season to recover from a knee injury which required surgery in September, said he had the procedure in Miami on Wednesday.
“Midway through December last year, during my off-season training, I injured my right knee,” Anderson said in a statement on Twitter twitter.com/KAndersonATP. “I tried to push through both in training and on the match court, but it didn’t get better.
“I had scans done in Australia and they unfortunately showed that I had suffered a medial meniscus tear. After consulting with medical professionals and my team, we decided that having surgery was the best way forward.