Rafa Nadal's cross: 13 of the greats under the fatality of injuries

• Rafa Nadal retires at Wimbledon "It hurts, and a lot, not being able to play, but life goes on"

• Injuries A relentless scourge

With his forced resignation to continue competing at Wimbledon, there are already 13 Grand Slam tournaments in which

has not been able to participate due to injury or has been pushed into retirement during his dispute due to physical problems.

Winner of 22

, including two this season, the Australian Open and Roland Garros, the Spaniard may have started his career at the top tournaments earlier.

A crack in his right elbow after falling while training deprived him of being in Paris in 2003 and a stress fracture in his left foot kept him out of his favorite tournament and Wimbledon a year later.

In 2006, already with the first of his 14 titles at Roland Garros, he did not play the Australian Open due to the injury sustained the previous fall in the Madrid Masters 1000 final that he won over

.

It was the first and severe manifestation of the Müller Weiss syndrome, whose recent outbreak has brought him into disrepute.

In 2009 he lost to

, in the round of 16 at Roland Garros, one of his only three losses in that tournament.

He was already suffering from tendinitis in the knee that left him out of Wimbledon.

A year later he did not complete his Australian Open quarter-final match against

.

He was losing 6-3, 7-6 (2), 3-0, when he dropped out of the match due to a right knee injury.

The worst of his injuries

In 2012 he fell in the second round at Wimbledon against

, the victim of an injury to the patellar tendon in his left knee.

It was one of the most serious mishaps of his career.

He spent seven months on the sidelines and also missed the 2013 US Open and Australian Open.

His right wrist prevented him from playing the 2014 US Open. Two years later, he was unable to play the third round of Roland Garros, against

, due to an injury to his left wrist.

Already in 2018, he had to retire in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, against

, due to a problem in the iliopsoas, when he lost 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-2 and 2- 0.

Months later, a new misfortune: she says goodbye in the semifinals of the United States Open by leaving due to an injury to her right knee against

.

He yielded 7-6 (3) and 6-2.

To all this long sequence of hardships, he could add the final of the 2014 Australian Open that, limited by a contracture in the back, he lost against

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