Rafa Nadal’s withdrawal period has been confirmed after passing the test

The manacorí tennis player Rafael Nadal This Thursday he underwent a new examination at the Tecknon Tennis Clinic in Barcelona due to an injury to the Psoas Iliaco in his left leg that occurred during his second round match at the Australian Open. After the tests “the results of Melbourne are confirmed and the terms remain the same since the injury, between 6 and 8 weeks.”

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Rafa Nadal was injured during his match with American Mackenzie McDonald. Very little because he felt pain in the hip of his left leg, in the seventh game of the second set, however he decided not to retire and ended up losing 6-4, 6-4, 7-5. “Being the champion, I didn’t want to retire,” said Rafa.

Before leaving Melbourne, on January 19, the Spaniard underwent an MRI accompanied by his trusted doctor, Ángel Ruiz Cotorro, and the examination showed that he suffered a second-degree iliopsoas injury in his left leg, ” where he will be out. between six and eight weeks,” according to a statement released by his team. “In the next few days he will be on sports rest and will undergo anti-inflammatory physiotherapy.”

A week later, Rafa Nadal underwent new tests in Barcelona, ​​​​​​proving that the expected deadlines were maintained.

“Rafa is now at the Tecknon Tennis Clinic in Barcelona where they have carried out several tests to see the evolution of the injury. The same results as in Melbourne have been confirmed and the terms remain the same, from the injury, between of 6 and 8 weeks. The treatments to be followed have been established and in 3 weeks they will carry out new tests to see the evolution,” they said in the statement on Thursday.

This means that it is guaranteed that Nadal will not miss his next appointments on the tennis calendar in Doha and Dubai, in the last weeks of February. In three weeks, after a new visit to Teknon, they will see how the injury is progressing and if his reappearance can be at the beginning of March at the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells.