The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal, winner of 22 Grand Slams and who has been away from the courts since January due to a left psoas injury he suffered in Australia, underwent surgery this Friday to check the state of the ailment.
In an official statement, the Balearic sportsman’s team has specified that it was a “minor surgical intervention by arthroscopy” and that it was carried out in Barcelona by doctors M. Philippon, Vilaró and Ruiz-Cotorro.
It is expected that tomorrow, Saturday, the same team as Rafa Nadal will communicate the result of said surgical intervention and will offer more information in this regard.
On January 18, in the second round of the Australian Open against Mackenzie McDonald, Rafa Nadal suffered an injury to the iliopsoas in his left leg. Although he managed to finish the game, the Spaniard lost (6-4, 6-4 and 7-5) to the American and there began a hell of almost five months that still lasts.
At first, it was pointed out that Rafa Nadal would remain out of action for between six and eight weeks, but in the end this has not been the case. The Spanish tennis player has not been able to play any of his favorite tournaments or, at least, the ones in which he has triumphed the most: Monte Carlo, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Rome and, of course, Roland Garros, among others. The days passed and Nadal had not just improved. For this reason, on May 18, he called a press conference that set off all the alarms.
In said appearance, the Spaniard announced what was an open secret: that he would not play at Roland Garros, where he is the undisputed king, because he still did not see himself prepared for it. In addition, he explained that his intention is to retire in 2024 and that his idea is to “say goodbye on the court in the tournaments that have marked me sportingly.”
Rafa Nadal also spoke about his current injury and lamented that “it has not evolved as I expected”. “I have been working non-stop,” he commented, and explained that he needed to put “a point and aside” to continue recovering, without setting a return date, but with the aim of a possible return at the end of 2023, to play the Davis Cup with Spain.
Almost five months after injuring himself on the same court where he knelt a year earlier to celebrate his second title in Melbourne, Nadal has gone under the knife. A small step that could indicate that the return of the tennis player from Manacor is a little closer.
