Former world No. 7 Mardy Fish will make a comeback attempt this spring. Fish, 33, was in the midst of a career revival when he was diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia in 2012 and underwent surgery. He would return to the tour later in the season but soon began suffering from anxiety related to the condition.
Fish withdrew from his round of 16 US Open match with Roger Federer and took the rest of the year off.
In 2013 Fish would make an emotional return at Indian Wells, defeating Bobby Reynolds in his first match back, but only played sparingly the rest of the season, finishing 2013 with a retirement due to heat exhaustion in Winston-Salem with a 4-5 record on the year.
Since then Fish has taken up the golf clubs, and though he was prepared to enter last year’s US Open as Andy Roddick’s doubles partner, hasn’t appeared to be all that interested in returning to the ATP Tour.
Until yesterday.
On Twitter it was reported that Fish had entered the doubles draw at next month’s Dallas Challenger with his coach, friend and confidant, Mark Knowles.
Later in the day Fish tweeted more good news: That he’d be playing Indian Wells:
Perhaps we should have known when Fish tweeted this cryptic “I’m gonna be on the court” message on January 22?
Fish owns 300 career ATP wins, has been the No. 1-ranked American, and has defeated top 10 players 24 times. He was a silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympic games and owns six ATP titles.
Other than the tweet he has yet to make any public comment on his plans.