Rafa Nadal will announce this Thursday if he will play Roland Garros

The Spaniard has been off the court since his retirement at the Australian Open in January

MADRID, 17 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal will give a press conference this Thursday at 4:00 p.m. at the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar in Manacor to announce if he will play Roland Garros, the “big one” who has won 14 times and has hastened his recovery from injury suffered at the Australian Open in January.

“Tomorrow Rafa Nadal will hold a press conference at the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar at 4:00 p.m. team in a statement.

The omen is not the most rosy for an urgent official call, with the growing buzz that points to the news that nobody wanted to give: Nadal’s loss in Paris. The Spaniard has been sidelined since his left leg injury in Melbourne in the second round against American Mackenzie McDonald.

The first important casualties were for the North American tour on cement, the Masters 1,000 in Indian Wells and Miami, but the arrival of dirt did not change the panorama. Nadal dropped out one by one of the tournaments where he raised his legend: Monte Carlo, Barcelona, ​​Madrid and Rome.

This Thursday, the 22 ‘big’ champion will announce if he reaches Roland Garros, where he has a historic 112-3 and 14 titles, in a recovery for which even in Paris they crossed their fingers. “It is logically a possibility that I cannot be physically fit to reach Roland Garros. I am hopeful, I will cross my fingers,” said Amelie Mauresmo, director of the French Open, a few days ago.

After the retirement in Australia, the first diagnosis was a muscular problem in the hip, but tests revealed a grade 2 injury to the iliopsoas in the left leg. It is what Nadal has not finished recovering, in the absence of the last part that he will communicate himself. The Roland Garros event takes place from May 28 to June 6, the second ‘big’ of the season.