“Do not expect him to play with an amputated foot or a prosthesis,” he said ironically. Carlos Moyà on the key to having kept his left foot under control at Roland Garros. “And then we’ll see what happens,” he announced. Rafael Nadal after assuring that “you will understand everything after the tournament”.
During his time on several television channels after beating Casper Ruud by 6-3, 6-3 and 6-0, Nadal revealed that “the worst moment was after the match with Corentin Moutet, could not walk. Luckily, my doctor was here and that has allowed me to play under anesthesia.” Angel Ruiz-Cotorro he was from the first with his patient in Paris. That match was in the second round, at night. He later faced five successfully, including in his victim list the world number one, Novak Djokovic, to four top-10s.
“I can’t continue competing with my foot asleep, a solution must be found. I would love to continue competing, so next week I am going to talk to several doctors and consider various options. I will receive treatment and I hope it will help me,” he added in France. 2 the fourteen times champion of Roland Garros.
At 36 years old, he did not give upof, far from it, because there are four titles this season, two Grand Slam, despite the evils. He later detailed the medical issue, the current foot problem and the possibilities of keeping the race alive
“The only way to be able to play was to put the foot to sleep. Do a remote blockade of the nerves with injections of anesthesia. The foot is left with zero sensation, or sensitivity. The foot cannot get worse, if there was a risk of doing It hurt me elsewhere,” he analyzed.
The test has also served for the treatment that will follow next week, an intervention already scheduled. “Distance nerve injections have worked well for me in two of them.” For this reason, “it is to puncture with radiofrequency injections to try to disinhibit the nerve, to remove the pain. That you do not fall completely asleep, as in the tournament, but that there is a permanent sensation that the pain decreases”.
“You have to be positive, hope it works. If not, you have to be realistic, but I reserve the different options for myself. It would be a personal life approach.” A more radical operation is not currently on his agenda. “I wouldn’t make sure that I could continue playing. I don’t know if it would make up for being out for half a year. I’d have to talk to myself and now I’m not ready,” he confessed. “I’m crystalline,” he stressed.
“Efforts are always worth it, this Roland Garros title is one of the most emotional. It means a lot.” He shunned the term sacrifice. “I do what I like. Those who get up every morning make sacrifices to do something they don’t like and have no other choice.”
“I don’t know if it was the last Roland Garros, I don’t know”
“He will try to prolong his career, he will not stop looking for a solution at the foot. “I don’t know if it was the last Roland Garros, I don’t know,” he says. About Wimbledon, closer, from June 27 to July 10, points out that “if the treatment works, if the body allows it, I would like to play”. Complicated but with him you never know.
In September 2021, he already underwent an operation on the scaphoid of the left foot, which suffers from síndrome Müllers-Weiss, a degenerative disease due to scaphoid malformation. It causes a general inflammation of the foot, constant pain, often intolerable even for the long-suffering Rafa Nadal.
“If the new treatment works, I’ll be back next year. I’m going to keep fighting to continue playing,” he publicly stressed in France.
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