“It has been powerful to cope with at instances and it is made me not need to be taking part in and competing at instances all year long,” he mentioned.
“It is undoubtedly quite a bit within the abdomen – you are feeling sick to your abdomen. I have been struggling to sleep after which, due to the sensation within the abdomen, struggling to eat nicely, eat sufficient.
“It is nearly like a sense of dread – that one thing dangerous goes to occur.”
He could enable himself an occasional social hit however will in any other case swap off from tennis till the spring.
Salisbury has loads of plans in place, together with a safari in Kenya, a snowboarding journey along with his girlfriend’s household, and Christmas at dwelling – which isn’t all the time potential for tennis gamers earlier than a season which begins in Australia in early January.
The present world quantity 10 performed the entire of this season with fellow Briton Neal Skupski, and although they didn’t win a title, they had been runners-up at six occasions together with the French Open, the US Open and final week’s ATP Finals in Turin.
“I would not say it affected my tennis that a lot,” Salisbury mentioned of his anxiousness.
“We have performed nicely, particularly the previous six months. I really feel like I’ve handled it nicely and managed to get myself right into a ok state on court docket to carry out nicely in many of the matches that I’ve performed.
“However I believe it is taken an additional toll emotionally and mentally to try this. It is meant that it is simply not been pleasant being at loads of the tournaments that I’ve performed.
“I have never spoken to too many individuals concerning the struggles that I’ve had – primarily my staff, family and friends, so not too many individuals within the tennis world.
“I believe lots of people do not need to share an excessive amount of as a result of they do not need different individuals to find out about that, when you find yourself having to go and compete in opposition to them.
“However to be trustworthy I do not actually thoughts if individuals do know. I am positive it is one thing which loads of different individuals are having to cope with and I do not assume it might have any influence on me, as if something over the previous 12 months it is made me mentally stronger than earlier than.”
