"See you on Wednesday, Paris @rolandgarros
,"
wrote Rafael Nadal on his Instagram account, text at the bottom of an image of Monday's training at his Manacor academy.
The confirmation of his presence in the second Grand Slam tournament of the season comes after the concern generated by his recurrence of the chronic foot injury during the round of 16 match of the Masters 1000 in Rome, last Friday, against Denis Shapovalov .
The post-loss press conference with the Canadian had a very somber tone.
The 21- time
major
winner was sad and dejected, hinting that he won't be on the track for long if the acute pain caused by Müller-Weiss syndrome persists.
Although he did not say that he could be dropped from Roland Garros, a tournament he has won 13 times, he did not fully confirm his presence either.
Nadal has discussed the situation with his lifelong doctor, Ángel Ruiz-Cotorro, who will accompany him throughout the tournament.
He will come out as the fifth seed, a rank that exposes him to a hypothetical duel with Novak Djokovic, the new champion in Rome, in the quarterfinals, if both fall on the same side of the draw.
A quarter-finalist in Madrid, where he lost to Carlos Alcaraz, he arrives very short of matches and without even a semi-final on the brief tour on clay.
In Indian Wells, where he was a finalist, he suffered a cracked rib that kept him out for six weeks until his reappearance at the Caja Mágica.
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