Tommy Paul is looking to end 2025 with a bit of a flourish after a somewhat disjointed year on the ATP Tour.
Paul has entered an ATP 250 event next month, and it would appear that he’s on the way back after a period spent on the sidelines.
Paul was in a protective boot after Wimbledon, and that threatened to put him out of action for the US Open.
With 2025 drawing to a close rapidly, Paul’s coach, Brad Stine, has now shared some intriguing information regarding the injury that threatened his participation in the final Grand Slam of the year.
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty ImagesThe painful injury Tommy Paul sustained at Wimbledon
Paul had an injury that required some attention just after Wimbledon, and it could have been a lot worse.
Remarkably, it slipped under the radar, too, with Stine now clearing up what actually happened to Paul during Wimbledon, where he was beaten in round two.
Paul is battling back now, and it would appear that he’s going to get some match practice under his belt before the year is out after not being 100 per cent at the US Open.
He told the Inside-In podcast: “It was very painful through Paris. He battled his way through two five-set matches against Fucsovic and Khachanov.
“If you got back and watch the highlights and video of the match against Fucsovic, I certainly didn’t think he was going to be able to get through another match, and he was really, really struggling with what was going on with his foot.
“Ultimately, after Wimbledon, he went and saw a specialist. I don’t know if many people know this, but when he was playing Ofner at Wimbledon. He wins the first set and is down a break in the second, and breaks back. Then at 5-5, he was serving, and he went up for an overhead and came down and extended the foot.
“He ruptured the ligament completely. Again, we thought he was going to be done. He actually went to the sideline, and by the time the trainer came out and got to the court, he was leaning over and giving us the thumbs up and going I don’t know what is going on, but it feels okay.
“He went back and finished the match, but when we got back to the States, he went to the doctor, and he said he had basically done self-care. Because he said if he hadn’t ruptured the ligament on his own, the doctor would have snipped it when he got back from Wimbledon.
“So he was in a boot for about 10 days, got an injection to reduce the swelling, then started hitting balls again, and that is why he missed some of the events in the summer.
“So it has been an up and down [season]. This is my sixth year with Tommy, and we have never really had any of these injury issues before.
“He was also really sick, he got whatever it was that a lot of guys got in Acapulco and that carried over to Indian Wells. So it’s been a very up-and-down season for us, dealing with illness and injury.
“But that being said, he also made his career high ranking after Paris, eight in the world, which I think he stayed at for a week! So that was disappointing, and after the French with all of that stuff, he ended up missing and wasn’t able to defend Queen’s. It’s been a weird season. A good season in some ways and a bad season, but a weird one for sure.”
Paul will look to hit some form ahead of Australian Open
Given that Paul has knocked on the door at major tournaments in the past, he will take confidence from the likes of Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton, who are kicking on as American players.
Paul has reached two Grand Slam quarterfinals in 2025 and reached the same stage at Wimbledon in 2024.
The Australian Open is where Paul had his best run as a professional, reaching the semifinal in 2023, and clearly, he has fond memories of that particular tournament.
Paul is a popular player on the ATP Tour, and the hope now will be that he can stay injury-free in the coming months and start making business stages of tournaments.