Rafael Nadal He was unable to debut at Roland Garros 2004 due to a stress crack in the scaphoid of his left foot. The contest and the place of his body were key to the development of the manacorí’s successful career, marked by trophies but also by physical problems.
Many of the injuries come from Muller-Weiss syndrome on the scaphoid of the left foot. A degenerative congenital malformation that was prevented at the end of 2005 by insoles, which alter the natural biomechanics of the tennis player.
He saved the race, they ended up seriously paying for his knees, a body that now needs rest that also frees the mind. Rafael Nadaltired of fighting one injury and another since the pandemic, that rest was a blessing for the knees, although it woke up with the worst foot pain.
About to turn 37, on June 3, a grade 2 injury to the iliac psoas in his left leg ended up activating the physical and mental alarms of the Spaniard, who in 2022 will be champion of the Australian Open and Roland Garros, but including the way he had to overcome a broken rib, two tears in his stomach and severe pain in his left leg, which was resolved first with anesthesia to win in Paris and then with a new radiofrequency technique that worked.
“I have no intention of continuing to play for the next months. Although the results have been at the highest level, my daily life is at a very low level, where the truth, although faced on the outside, victories and the moments always remain. well and that’s what sport is about, on a personal level and on a daily work level, that’s what brings happiness to one, because the truth they were very difficult years. It was difficult for me to have continuity in all the senses, especially because of the physical, chained injury after injury, and in the end when a person cannot be part of his life without there is happiness because he moved to his personal land”, he analyzed. Rafael Nadal in the press conference where he disclosed all his illnesses.
There are no deadlines. “The goal might be to try to reach the end of the year and try to play the Davis Cup,” he slipped. It is to stop to “perhaps try to face my last year of my sports career with at least the guarantees of being able to enjoy it. And I know that if I continue playing now, next year I won’t thought that would happen. . And I wanted to give myself the opportunity to make it happen,” he said.
“I don’t deserve to say goodbye like that, in a press conference,” he confessed. He wants to do it on the track and being competitive. May 2024 means a farewell in line with his career and the efforts he has made since he entered the elite in 2005.
In 2004, he visited Roland Garros on crutches. It debuted in 2005 with the first of its fourteen Musketeers Cups. Current champion, he will step down in 2023, after eighteen uninterrupted appearances. So far his last game is the victory in the 2022 final match Casper Ruud. He wants to play more on that stage, the Grand Slam on clay and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Source: La Verdad
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