Pain leads to the chase Rafael Nadal during the years. It doesn’t seem to stop, he carries it 22 times Grand Slam championand this time he wants to appear in australia tomorrow. Nadal received a puncture in his left leg, in the hip, during the match he was fighting mackenzie mcdonald in the second round, but the Spanish tennis player refused to say goodbye.
He fought for 2 hours and 32 minutes the match lasted, until McDonald’s He won the match 6-4, 6-4 and 7-5. “I don’t know what’s going on, whether it’s in the muscle, in the joint. Now I can’t move,” he said. nadal at a press conference.
However, this is not the first time that the reigning champion has suffered an injury in a match Melbourne. Four were injured nadal at an Australian Open. It was the third time he had endured the pain on the court, because he had endured so many times, there was still no choice to compete.
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2010
Quarterfinal against Andy Murray
The background starts in the year 2010 and the Andy Murray quarterfinal match. The Spaniard had to withdraw from the match after losing 6-3, 7-6 and 3-0 against the Briton due to a right knee injury that kept him out for a month.
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2011
Quarterfinals against David Ferrer
Rafa Nadal is back in Australia with a vengeance after retiring last year. He reached the quarterfinals in Melbourne and faced his compatriot David Ferrer. The match started well, but the fun was short-lived. Nadal was hampered by a hamstring injury and this caused him to lose to Ferrer, who won the match 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. After the match, Nadal announced that he had suffered a fibrillar tear in the hamstring of his left leg.
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2014
Final against Stanislas Wawrinka
Nadal has reached the final and faces Stanislas Wawrinka. In the second set the alarms went off when the Spaniard put his hand behind his back in the second game, trailing 2-0 and got the ball, but had to be treated because his back was stuck. He went to the locker room and played again, even winning the third set, but he stayed there. The world number one lost to Wawrinka (3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 3-6).
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2018
Quarterfinal against Marin Cilic
With a limp, Rafa Nadal was forced to retire in the fifth set of the match against Marin Cilic. They met in the quarterfinals and the Spaniard lost 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 and 2-0. There were 3 hours and 47 minutes of play, but neither the rubs of his preparation nor the anti-inflammatories stopped the pain the Spaniard felt in his hip. He was gone for more than two months.
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2023
Second round against Mackenzie McDonald
Nadal, who came to Australia as the defending champion, suffered a strained left hip on Wednesday in the second set of his match against Mackenzie McDonald. He struggled to keep going, but the American finally lost 6-4, 6-4 and 7-5.
All pain, problems and suffering have a reason, his left foot, a problem without a solution. “I’m playing without pain, but with zero sensations. It’s like when your nerve falls asleep at the dentist,” he explained last year after winning his fourteenth Roland Garros.
He was diagnosed in 2005 with the disease Muller-Weisswhich affects the scaphoid, a bone in the middle of the foot that is key to mobility.
Source: La Verdad
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