11:40 | 12/12/2025
The former Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal revealed that he underwent an operation on his right hand, about which he clarified that “he had been dragging it for years.”
The Mallorcan, who retired from professional tennis in the 2024 Davis Cup at the age of 38 after suffering serious injuries mainly in recent seasons, took this new operation with humor and joked that he will not be able to play the Australian Open 2026.
“It seems to me that I will not be able to play the Australian Open in January. I have had to undergo surgery on my hand for a problem that I have had for years, but I hope to be well soon,” he detailed in a post on his social networks.
Nadal, who is considered one of the best tennis players in history along with the Swiss Roger Federer and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, had an incredible career in which his 22 Grand Slam titles stand out, the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (singles) and Rio 2016 (doubles), 36 Masters 1000 and winning the Davis Cup in 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2019.
In total, the “Fiera de Manacor” accumulated 92 titles and occupied number 1 in the ATP ranking for 209 weeks.
