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Article: Fish on the hook for a big return.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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Byline: Charles Bricker
WIMBLEDON, England _ When Mardy Fish spun around at the baseline on Court 14 and hit the shot of the day, his family, girlfriend and coach Kelly Jones, who were settled into a section on the sideline, had every right to yell, in unison of course, "Hip, hip, hooray."
It was nearly two months ago that Fish, suffering chronic hip pain, thought he was facing the same laser operation that laid low fellow pros Gustavo Kuerten, Magnus Norman, Harel Levy and Sargis Sargsian. Two doctors told him the tear in his right labrum was that serious.
And both surgeons were wrong.
Thomas Byrd, the Nashville specialist and former ...