Rafael Nadal affirmed that the Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament will be “a test” for him, and that he has decided to return to the courts after four months of his last official match due to a left foot injury because “the recovery process is going well.”
“Things are going better than before, otherwise I wouldn’t have considered going back to Abu Dhabi. What will happen from now on? I don’t know. Abu Dhabi is a test for me, and I am determined to be there, “he confessed.
The Mubadala World Tennis Championschip 2021 will be held between December 16 and 18 in the capital of the homonymous emirate and the Spanish tennis player He will face the winner of the match between Britain’s Andy Murray and Austrian Dominic Thiem.
Regarding the injury that has prevented him from playing since last August in the Washington Tournament (it was eliminated by the South African Lloyd Harris), the winner of 20 Grand Slams titles, explains that “he follows all the indications of the doctors” in his process recovery.
“I am being obedient and I do what they tell me. We will not know how the foot is until we increase the load and test ourselves at the highest level,” he concluded.
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