Rafael Nadal down. The Spaniard with fourteen record trophies at Roland-Garros, injured and off the circuit for four months, announced this Thursday his package for the Parisian Grand Slam, his beloved playground, ten days before his kick-off. Adding that “next year” would be “probably the last” of his career.
“The injury I suffered in Australia has not evolved as we wanted, so I will not be able to be there at Roland-Garros,” the 36-year-old Spaniard told a press conference in Mallorca. . Nadal, who has won 22 Grand Slams like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, is suffering from a left hip injury that has plagued him since January.
“Rafa” had made an appointment with the press at 4 p.m. to communicate “his decision whether or not to participate in Roland-Garros, as well as the reasons for his choice, whatever it is”, according to a press release sent on Wednesday at the start of the evening.