"My intention is to try to play at Wimbledon," the Spanish tennis player told reporters on his island of Mallorca, in the Balearic archipelago, where he did his first grass training on Monday.
"This week of training tells me that there may be possibilities," added Rafael Nadal, who will travel to London on Monday to train and play some exhibition matches.
Nadal has suffered for years from Müller-Weiss syndrome, a degenerative and incurable disease which is characterized by the deformation of one of the bones of the foot.
The player with 22 Grand Slam titles has revealed he had to play Roland-Garros with an anesthetized foot, but was not ready to repeat the experience at Wimbledon, a tournament he won twice , in 2008 and 2010, and in which he did not participate in 2021.
He began two days after his triumph at Roland-Garros a "pulsed radiofrequency treatment (PRF)" which numbs "the nerves in the region of the injury from which he suffers", in the words of his spokesperson.
The player said Friday noted the "changes" induced by this treatment.
"It's been a week since I limped. I'm happy," he said, "it has reduced the pain that prevented me from supporting" the foot.
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