The last time Rohan Bopanna’s life took another of its could-only-happen-to-him turns was during the dark, restrictive days of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was pretty sure his career was over.
He’d just turned 40, which is ancient in tennis, even for doubles specialists. His knees were shot; devoid of nearly all of the cartilage that provides the essential cushioning between the bones of the joints, not just for playing elite sports but for walking from the living room to the kitchen. At the time, playing on the floor with his newborn daughter without pain would have felt like a victory.
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The medical interventions, including injections of platelet-rich plasma and hyaluronic
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