Rafael Nadal He is 36 years old, with 873 weeks in the top-10 of the world ranking. A record set in April 2005 and has no labor expiration date. It reflects the successful longevity of the Balearic despite the many injuries that marked his career, most of which came from major evil, Müller-Weiss syndrome: a malformation in the scaphoid of the left foot, degenerative.
In 2005, he was able to avoid withdrawal using templates, which also required customized shoes. The consequent change in the natural support of the tennis player leads to other ailments, especially the correction of the knees, in the long run the weak point of the manacorí.
If after the latter Roland Garros he sought treatment that would alleviate the pain of his leg, ended the strain once the effect of the injected anesthesia had ended to compete, and on his knees he found relief for many years with the entry of plasma enriched with growth factor. Later he will test the stem cells, behind him as well.
The confinement for covid in 2020 woke up the most severe foot pain but helped with the welcome rest of the knees.
He never stopped looking for a solution. Also at Wimbledon 2022. Medical examinations that determined a seven millimeter rupture in the abdominal muscle were followed by a track rehearsal with his team. He tried until there was no way out. When he made the decision, he announced it publicly, at sevenpm on the eve of his semi-final against the Australian. Nick Kyrgios.
Although he has accumulated many months of medical leave, primarily due to his knees (especially the left) and his left foot, it is only the seventh time that he appears with a wo (walkover, withdrawal) in a professional photo started. .
Since 2004, when it happened in April 2004 in Estoril due to stress crack in the scaphoid in his left foot, in the season in which he regularly competes in the ATP Tour, the first division.
Eighteen years later, Rafa Nadal has played 1,275 individual games, where he won 1,063 and lost 212. Wo doesn’t count as defeats, but abandonments during a fight have begun. In Nadal’s case, nine.
Counts abandonments before a date and those that happened during it, sixteen. At the Grand Slam he had already experienced the hasty withdrawal of the third round of Roland Garros 2016by the wrist, not showing up in the game with Marcel Granollers.
Nasa Australian Open, two, refusing to do so on two more occasions. “I’m broken, but I’m not retiring or shitting,” he told his uncle Toni Nadal when he faced David Ferrer in 2011. He lasted as long as he could in the final against Stan Wawrinka in 2014, when he felt his back confined before facing her
And left in the semifinals of 2018 US Open against Juan Martin del Potrofor knee pain. He didn’t do it in 2009, in the same round, when he had an abdominal rupture “which I multiplied by eight from the start,” he recalls in London. An experience that served him in the present case.
Source: La Verdad
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