Rublev has now confirmed that he almost “lost” one of his testicles after being rushed into the operating room and signing papers giving permission for an amputation. The Russian was able to successfully return to competition at last month’s China Open following the emergency procedure. At the time, he didn’t go into details about the operation.

In these minutes Andrey Rublev is playing the quarterfinals in Stockholm tournament against Stan Wawrinka, but on the eve of the match, the Russian had shared a shocking confidence in a press conference, revealing that he had undergone surgery after the US Open.

Andrey Rublev has described the "weird feeling" that prompted him to undergo emergency surgery before flying out to compete in the China Open and Shanghai Masters.

Andrey Rublev can laugh about it now, but the tennis star was just hours away from losing a testicle. Not long after his fourth round exit at this year’s US Open, Rublev felt pain in one of