The Spaniard intends to go to Roland Garros to defend the title achieved last year, the fourteenth and the twenty-second Grand slam.
“Hello everyone! I am very sorry to announce that I will not be able to be in Rome. You all know how much it hurts me to miss another one of the tournaments that have marked my professional and personal career for all the love and support of the Italian tifosi”, said the Balearic tennis player on social networks.
Hello everyone! I am very sorry to announce that I will not be able to be in Rome
If the evolution is positive Rafael Nadal will go directly to Roland Garros. He will do it without any filming because he has not played any of the dirt tournaments on the calendar.
Hello everyone!
I am very sorry to announce that I will not be able to be in Rome. You all know how much it hurts me to miss another one of the tournaments that have marked my professional and personal career for all the love and support of the Italian tifosi. pic.twitter.com/attH8MQWU4— Rafael Nadal (@RafaelNadal)
May 5, 2023
Rafael Nadal has only played four games so far in 2023. He played in the United Cup and lost the two games he played. Facing the British Cameron Norrie and the Australian Alex de Minaur. Later, he went to the Australian Open and lost in the second round, injured. He beat Britain’s Jack Draper and lost to American Mackenzie McDonald.
The Spanish tennis player then announced the psoas injury and although he has started training on the court for a long time, he has not returned to a tournament since mid-January. Nadal has missed the tour of the United States, the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Miami and the land season, among them the Monte Carlo Masters 1000, the Barcelona tournament, the Madrid Masters 1000 and now, also, the Rome Masters 1000.
Last year, also physically damaged from the Indian Wells Masters 1000, with battered ribs, he played three games at the Madrid Masters 1000, where he reappeared, and two in Rome. He then faced Roland Garros which he won after beating the Norwegian Casper Ruud in the final. On this occasion, if he goes to Paris, he will do so without any preparation.