The extent of Rafa Nadal’s injury is already known: deadlines and tournaments he cannot miss

Rafael Nadal He was away from the slopes for a while. The Spaniard had an MRI on Thursday in Melbourne and found out suffered a second-degree iliac psoas injury in his left leg, which will keep him out for between six and eight weeksaccording to a press release issued by his team.

The injury occurred when the reigning Australian Open champion tried to stretch to return the ball on her right side when the score looked unfavorable 6-4 and 4-3 against American Mackenzie McDonald.

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Despite the hassle, Nadal decided not to give up and he struggled to hit a backhand until the American closed out the second round match 6-4, 6-4, 7-5.

The champion of 22 Grand Slam titles, accompanied by Doctor Ángel Ruiz-Cotorro at the Teknon Clinic in Melbourne, he will be on sports rest for the next few days and will begin anti-inflammatory physiotherapy with the aim of resuming training as soon as possible.

“Good afternoon. I did medical tests after yesterday’s defeat. The MRI shows a grade 2 lesion in the Psoas Iliaco of his left leg. Now it’s sports rest and anti-inflammatory physiotherapy. Normal recovery time 6 to 8 weeks“wrote the Spaniard on his twitter account.

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So, Nadal will definitely miss his next appointments on the tennis calendar in Doha and Dubai which will be held in the last weeks of February. Depending on the evolution of the injury, his reappearance could come at the beginning of March on the occasion of the Masters 1000 dispute in Indian Wells.