Rafael Nadal announced Thursday that he will miss Roland Garros for the first time since his debut in 2005, after eighteen consecutive appearances and fourteen wins, surely the most impressive record in tennis with a balance of 112 matches who won and lost 3.
The current champion left the crown, after winning the 2022 final against the Norwegian Casper Ruud. It never fails when it reaches the final day of the Parisian Grand Slam.
The Spaniard, who will not be 37 years old in the French capital, which used to be the center of his anniversaries on June 3, has decided to stop for a few months, without a return date but with the hope of being ready to return to end of the year, as a start towards a farewell 2024 to the conditions, competitiveness.
Your body needs rest, as well as a mind that has been punished by constantly trying to stop, recover and start again. A series of physical problems that persisted over the years.
Nadal made his current situation known, having not competed since the iliopsoas injury to his left leg suffered in mid-January, but he also went through the official procedure to remove himself from the list of participants at Roland Garros.
The cut is established in the world ranking of Monday, April 17, which gives entry to 104 tennis players. With each loss, the next one enters this ATP classification.
And, ironies of fate, the farewell of Rafael Nadal He gave an entry to whoever was designated as his successor one day, with whom he also maintained a very good personal relationship despite their battles on the track. The position of the manacorí was taken advantage of by the Austrians Dominic Thiemwhich accesses the ranking nº 101 of that time.
Nadal lost four times Thiem at Roland Garros, meaning the duels in the 2017 semifinals and the 2018 and 2019 finals. The Austrian has not returned to the elite since suffering a serious wrist injury that required surgery. At 29 years old, he has only just returned to the top-100, but he has not stood out like when he tried to discuss the power of the Spaniard on the ground or when he won the 2020 US Open, his last ATP title at the moment .
Source: La Verdad
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