![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/novak-djokovics-us-open-opponent-will-need-injections-forever-having-snubbed-retirement/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_MIRRORDJOKOVIC.jpg&description=World No. 76 Alexandre Muller faces three-time US Open champion Novak Djokovic in the first round and has the opportunity to cause a seismic shock at Flushing Meadows Novak Djokovic's US Open first-round opponent, Alexandre Muller, plays through a chronic health condition that requires bi-weekly injections to keep under control, having ignored a doctor's advice to quit the sport. Muller, 26, faces Djokovic for the first time since turning pro on Monday at Flushing Meadows. Last time out at Wimbledon, the French player enjoyed a joint-career-best Grand Slam finish after making it through to the second round before being beaten by eventual winner Carlos Alcaraz. Heading into the main draw, the World No. 76 has opened up about living with Crohn's disease and still performing as an athlete. Crohn's is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation in parts of the digestive system. It is currently a lifelong condition with no known cure. Instead, as Muller explains, it is managed through various treatments, including intravenous infusions and taking steroid tablets. "I need to do an injection to myself every two weeks, all my life," he said in an interview on the ATP website. "So it's not that easy, but I'm trying to manage it. "Sometimes I'm feeling quite bad. It was not easy because the doctor told me if I wanted to be in good shape, I needed to stop tennis and sports in general." Muller continued: "Not playing the sport, but when you're a professional tennis player, you practice every day, so it's very hard. I needed to stop it. I stopped training for maybe two months; I took a lot of cortisone [a steroid]. It's the process with this disease, so now I'm trying to manage it." For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US. The Frenchman was diagnosed with the disease early in his teenage years. 'I was just a little bit sick," Muller recalls. "I went to the doctor, and he gave me some medicine. I was quite young — 14){kind=link}
World No. 76 Alexandre Muller faces three-time US Open champion Novak Djokovic in the first round and has the opportunity to cause a seismic shock at Flushing Meadows
Novak Djokovic’s US Open first-round opponent, Alexandre Muller, plays through a chronic health condition that requires bi-weekly injections to keep under control, having ignored a doctor’s advice to quit the sport.
Muller, 26, faces Djokovic for the first time since turning pro on Monday at Flushing Meadows. Last time out at Wimbledon, the French player enjoyed a joint-career-best Grand Slam finish after making it through to the second round before being beaten by eventual winner Carlos Alcaraz.
Heading into the main draw, the World No. 76 has opened up about living with Crohn’s disease and still performing as an athlete. Crohn’s is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation in parts of the digestive system.
It is currently a lifelong condition with no known cure. Instead, as Muller explains, it is managed through various treatments, including intravenous infusions and taking steroid tablets.