Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal announced this Friday that will return to competition at the Brisbane tournamentV first week of January 2024before Australian Openafter a year away from competition due to injury.
“Hello everyone, after a year of absence from competitions it’s time to go back. It will be in Brisbane and it will be in first week of January. See you there,” Nadal said in a message posted on social media to announce his return to the courts.
The tournament in Brisbane will be held with December 31 next to January 7 next year, ahead of the Australian Open, which runs from January 14 to 28 and will be the last competition Mallorca competes in.
Nadal, winner of 22 Grand Slam tournamentschallenged it last game January 18when he fell in the second round against the American Mackenzie McDonaldand since then he has been following the recovery process from a grade 2 iliopsoas injury in his left leg, for which he underwent surgery.
Was a tennis player intervened on June 2 arthroscopically left lumbar tendon injury at the Teknon Clinic in Barcelona, conducted by doctors Marc Philippon, Jaume Vilaro and Angel Ruiz-Cotorro, and An old left hip labral injury was also repaired.. His estimated recovery time was then five months.
He Australian Open On October 11, he announced that Nadal was going to form part of the picture first Grand Slam tournament of the season in Melbourne, leads won in 2009 and 2022days after the tennis player posted a video in which he was spotted education on the track at his academy in Manacor (Mallorca).
🎧👀💪🏻😉 pic.twitter.com/iH7NvsQGMT
— Rafa Nadal (@RafaelNadal) December 1, 2023
Nadal, 37 years old, He didn’t want to set a date for his return. for the competition on November 15, although he stated that he was develops well after injury and what did I know that he plans to come back “to play tennis one day”something he doubted at some point in his recovery.
“If I didn’t have the dream of being competitive, I wouldn’t have done everything I’ve done. these last few months and the effort it takes for me to do this at my age,” the former world number one noted at the time.
RAFA IS BACK 💪
The Spaniard will return to action in the first week of the 2024 season in Brisbane 🤩 pic.twitter.com/uugfEJYM2B
— ATP Tour (@atptour) December 1, 2023
He Beijing Olympic champion 2008 And flag bearer for Spain at Rio 2016 He also admitted then that it was an “illusion” for him to be able to challenge Games Paris 2024which could be his last active season.
“I would like to play again and be competitive again. I hope I don’t come back and win Roland Garros or Australia so people don’t get confused. At the time I am in my life, all this is very far away. I’m not saying it’s impossible because things change very quickly in sports. But I’m not an illusion I am aware of the difficulties I face“Nadal said this in September.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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