Rafael Nadal rejected a ‘wildcard’ for the Challenger tournament in Bordeaux next week, as his participation in the French Internationals at Roland Garros hangs by a thread, the director of the clay court event said on Sunday.
Nadal has struggled with a hip injury sustained at the Australian Open in January, and fears the 14-time Paris champion could miss the French Grand Slam grew after he pulled out of the Italian Internationals at the Foro Italico in Rome today . week and next.
“I offered him (Nadal’s agent Carlos Costa) one of the ‘wildcards’. He very kindly told me that Rafa continued his preparation at home, in Manacor, that he was not ready and was in a race against time to go to the right place. Roland Garros”, declared Jean-Baptiste Perlant in the French sports newspaper ‘L’Equipe’.
Nadal skipped the Mutua Madrid Open last week and missed Indian Wells, Miami and the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 and the Conde de Godó in Barcelona.
Roland Garros starts on May 28 and runs until June 11.
Source: La Verdad
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