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1/9/09 10:40 AM | Johan Lindahl
Experienced Slovak Dominik Hrbaty put his informal tennis medical knowledge to good use as he advised shell-shocked medical personnel who had to treat German Nicolas Kiefer for a badly injured ankle at the Hopman Cup.
The 31-year-old Hrbaty took charge on court in Perth as his opponent went down in the fourth game.
His fast thinking amid flustered medicos proved invaluable and may result in Kiefer still pulling up fit enough to play the Australian Open starting in little more than a week.
"I told the chair umpire to call for some ice and told the first aid people that they should raise the ankle and use the freezing spray to immobilize it," Hrbaty explained.
"It's happened to me before, I suffered this kind of an injury in the Australian juniors once. If the ankle swells up and you can't move it, that's not good.
"With injuries like this, the most important thing is the first couple of minutes, because you don't want to get swelling there and blood there.
"Then it heals much, much tougher."
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