Radiofrequency injection treatment is key to keep the Majorcan competitive
“I’m going to fight to stay here as long as possible.” Rafael Nadal used this sentence to chase away the rumors of his retirement that colored the last three weeks of his sports career. And they weren’t empty words. Nadal has a plan to recover from the chronic left foot injury that left him limping out of Rome less than a month ago.
A better plan than the narcotic injections he received before every match at Roland Garros that would allow him to compete normally, but with the concern that the scaphoid injury in his foot would worsen.
This time, the Balearic will undergo injections with pulsed radio frequencies that will reduce the impact of pain in the foot without resorting to infiltrations with anesthesia before each match.
“I hope to continue as I am at a beautiful and unexpected time at this point in my career. It’s a gift to keep playing at this age. We are going to do the things that are reasonably possible to continue,” Nadal said at a news conference.
This treatment would avoid foot surgery that would take him out for the rest of the season. A step through the operating room would curtail his ability to continue adding successes this season and would put him in dry dock for six months, a hiatus similar to last season when he barely entered a single tournament after losing in the semifinal of Roland Garros against Novak Djokovic.
“If (the treatment) works, I’ll keep playing. If not then it will be a different story, I will consider having surgery. I should talk to myself about it, calmly, because it would be a life decision, to know if it pays to be unemployed for half a year, without any certainty. I would have to understand things better to make that decision that I am not ready to make now,” added the Balearics.
Nadal will undergo treatment this week and from there he will assess his options on the grass tour starting this Monday. There are three weeks left before Wimbledon and the goal of the man from Manacor is to take part in a tournament he has won twice (2008 and 2010), but in which he has not participated since 2019.
“I’ll be at Wimbledon when my body is ready. It’s a tournament I like and don’t want to miss. If you ask me if I’ll be able to play it, I don’t know, but if you asks me if I want to win it, the answer is yes,” added the Balearic Islands, who have not played on grass since. 2019.
Wimbledon, which will not split points this year due to the ban on playing Russians and Belarusians, starts on June 27, giving Nadal 20 days to recover from Roland Garros’ efforts and prepare for the surface that his joints the most punished.
Warming up for the third Major of the year has never been a priority and with the short time the calendar offers between clay and grass, it should come as no surprise that Nadal shows up at the All England Club without playing any other official tournament. He did so in 2019 and 2018, when he reached the semi-finals, and also in 2017 and 2013. To acclimatize on the surface, there are also the Hurlingham exhibitions, in which Nadal took part a few times before the attack on Wimbledon.
The third Grand Slam of the year will become even more important as Nadal won Australia and Roland Garros for the first time in his career in the same season, giving him a long shot at overcoming one of the few challenges he misses in the competition . tennis: the Grand Slam, or winning the four Grands in the same lane. This achievement stands alone in honor of Don Budge, who did it in 1938, and Rod Laver, who accomplished it in 1962 and 1969. Djokovic was the closest to repeating success, winning the first three Grand Slams last year and losing to Daniil Medvedev in the US Open final.
Source: La Verdad
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