Shoulder surgery for Yen-Hsun Lu

Yen-Hsun Lu, the 34-year-old whose career-high ranking of No. 33 makes him by far the best male player ever to come out of Taiwan, finally had shoulder surgery a week ago after the rehab route proved unsuccessful.

Surgery to repair a labral tear has a nine-month rehab time frame (and so often, shoulder surgery never is truly successful for tennis player). So given his age, Lu tried the rehab route first,

But when returned to play after six months on the Challenger circuit in Asia, the pain returned immediately.

Lu had the surgery in Munich.

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