“So, if you are unlucky, you get a drop of shower water on your lips and through there or through…most likely vegetable, fruit, or salad being washed with unclean water. It can take up to 12 days before it kicks in and you feel symptoms, so it’s very difficult to know where I got it.”
Once recovered, he made the potentially risky decision to return to Paris for the Vogue World event at Place Vendôme before returning to the All England Club for his pre-Wimbledon prep.
“I was mostly in bed for…10, 11 days, which was not what I was kind of hoping for,” explained the two-time Roland Garros runner-up, who looked visibly distressed in his four-set loss to Zverev, whom he’d handily beaten in the same round a year prior.
“I rested well, that’s for sure, but it wasn’t ideal. I’ve kind of regained my strength and been practicing in London since last Tuesday. I didn’t do much between Paris and coming here. It took a while to get this thing away.”
