that in the palmares of Rafael Nadal display 22 Grand Slam titlesthe one closest to the Serbian Novak Djokovic, It’s the closest thing to a miracle considering the carousel of injuries that have plagued the tennis player from Manacor throughout his brilliant and extensive career. Rare is the year in which Nadal has not been forced to rest due to a physical setbackof all colors and tastes. Few areas of his bruised body are spared from not having suffered some mishap. So much injury has meant missing a whopping four years of his careernot counting the time he will be absent from the slopes this year.
Shoulder, foot, knee, wrist, iliopsoas, back, abdominal, are some of the many injuries that have slowed down a career that, however, has been and is stellar. How far could Nadal have gone if he hadn’t been forced to stop? A question that will never have an answer.
Christmas’s situationwho has conquered eight great ones over thirty, aggravated by the pandemicin 2020. The long absence from the tracks played against its chassis, already sufficiently punished. On March 1, he played his last game in Viña del Mar (Chile), before the world went into lockdown to combat the coronavirus. On September 16, 200 days later, Nadal stepped on a tennis court again, at the Masters 1000 in Romedefeating Pablo Carreno. It was his second longest streak without competingafter suffered 223 days between Wimbledon 2012 and Viña del Mar 2013 due to a tendon rupture in his left knee and hoffitis.
The pandemic
Since the pandemic, Nadal has missed the US Open in 2020 and 21, and Wimbledon in 2021, not counting the three that he will miss this year after announcing his “full point” in tennis to return recovered and face what must be the last year of his career.
Last year, despite the fact that he won the Australian Openagainst the Russian Daniil Medvedev in almost five and a half hours, and his fourteenth Roland Garros against the Norwegian Casper Ruud, a regular at the Academy, Nadal has gone through a real ordeal. In Paris he played infiltrated by severe pain in his left foot which required him to undergo pulsed radiofrequency treatment. «If it does not work, I am clear about what is there. It is a life decision. I can’t keep playing with my foot asleep, I can’t get up lame every morning. If it doesn’t work, I’m clear about what there is, “he said a few minutes after raising the Musketeers’ Cup for the fourteenth time.
Despite the fact that in 2022 he won the Australian Open and Roland Garros, he went through a real ordeal with injuries, which forced him to withdraw before the Wimbledon semifinals
For the memory, the images of Sebastià Nadal, father of the tennis player, yelling “Go now” to his son in the Wimbledon quarterfinal match are recorded against the American Taylor Fritz. He beat him in five sets with a seven-millimeter abdominal tear that forced him to give up playing in the semifinals against Australian Nick Kyrgios. It was the sixth time in his career that he left a tournament without going out on the court, in addition to nine games without being able to finish them throughout his career. Injuries, a constant in his trajectory.
2023-05-20 10:29:00
#Nadal #Grand #Slam #years #injured
