"Although I'm coming short of preparation and it's going to be difficult, I really want to play, and to play at home, as the opportunities are rare. I'll try to do it as best I can. See you in Madrid", wrote on Twitter the Spaniard, who announced that he had resumed training a week ago.
Nadal, touched during the Indian Wells tournament, where he ended up losing in the final against the American Taylor Fritz 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), announced on March 22 the diagnosis and a consecutive absence of four to six weeks.
"I have trouble breathing. When I breathe, when I move, it's like a needle that you press. And it's not just the pain, it affects my breathing," he explained after his lost final.
The Mallorcan, thirteen times crowned on the ocher of Roland-Garros, thus missed the start of the season on clay, his beloved surface.
Precisely the tournaments of Monte-Carlo and Barcelona.
After Madrid, "Rafa" will still have the opportunity to participate in the Masters 1000 in Rome the following week.
Before his injury, at the age of 35 and when he had hardly played for six months, Nadal had signed a resounding start to the season, by seizing the record for Grand Slam trophies in Australia alone, with a 21st coronation .
And even by winning his first twenty matches of the year, until the Indian Wells final.
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