Rafael Nadal’s comeback will be delayed a few more weeks after the former world number 1 has confirmed his withdrawal from the exhibition he had planned to play with Carlos Alcaraz next March 5 in Las Vegas. The tennis player from Manacor continues his recovery from the hamstring injury to his left leg which he suffered at the last Australian Open in the second round of the match against the American Kenzie McDonald.
The lowering of the exhibition of Nadal in Las Vegas it also makes it unlikely that he will be able to play the Indian Wells Masters 1,000 that begins on March 8 and neither the Miami Masters 1,000 (March 22). The recovery period for the current world number 6 from his hip injury had been estimated at between six and eight weeks after his last review in Barcelona at the Teknon clinic. the square of Nadal in the million-dollar exhibition in Las Vegas it will be occupied by the winner of the game that the Americans will play Taylor Fritz y Francis Tiafoe.
A hard knock
Following his injury in Melbourne, Nadal was “sunk” due to a new injury, the third in a row in the last three Grand Slams he has played. “In the end they are blows and I have already had many. You have to look forward and life treats me too well to complain. Sportingly there are many things that are happening and that’s good, many things that take away the option of fighting for my goals It is a reality, and I’m going to keep fighting. I’m not going to give up anything, it’s the beginning of the year, but it’s like a boxing match and now I’m knocked out, but I have the calm and tranquility to see things in perspective even though now is a complicated moment,” he said in an interview with Eurosport.
Nadal who is following his recovery plan at his Manacor academy, is now considering his rReturn to the circuit on the European tour of land to prepare for the Roland Garros tournament where he will defend the title. The 14-time champion in Paris could reappear in the Monte Carlo tournament (April 9) to then play the tournaments in Barcelona (April 17), Madrid (April 26) and Rome (May 10). The absence in Acapulco and Indian Wells, where he accumulated 1,100 points in 2022, will make him get out of the top tenafter starting the year as world number 2.
