The former world No 14 is ready to make his comeback to the big stage after 22 painful months away with a knee injury
In the two years since Kyle Edmund last contested a grand slam singles match, he has been through the wringer. Years of pain in his left knee eventually led Edmund to undergo surgery at the end of 2020. Two more operations followed, the most recent a cleanup of the joint in May, and in total he was missing for 22 months during what should have been some of the prime years of his career.
“I’ve never been in that position before,” says Edmund of his time away. “So you learn things about yourself, how you react in certain situations. The feelings I had of being upset and frustrated and down and the worrying, I never felt. I’ve never felt that on court.”
