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Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-18:38
Rafa Nadal
is not ready yet. The tennis world begins its clay tour this Sunday in
Monte Carlo
, in the first
Masters 1000
of the clay season, and the Spaniard has been quick to rule himself out of the event before the fans continue to get more excited. The Spanish tennis player, out since last January, announced today that he is not ready to play in
Monaco
. "
My body simply won't let me
," he explained on social networks.
"Hello everyone! These are difficult times for me sportingly speaking.
Unfortunately I inform you that I am not going to play in Monte Carlo
. My body simply does not let me," he expressed, adding that "although I continue working and trying my best every day with the hope to be able to compete in tournaments that have been very important to me, the reality is that today I can't." "
You can't imagine how difficult it is for me
not to have the opportunity to play these events once again," she admitted.
Looking to the future, the man from Manacor has acknowledged that "
I have no choice but to accept the situation
and try to look towards the immediate future while maintaining hope and desire to try to give myself the opportunity for things to improve.
Nadal, who was already out for many months last year due to surgery on his
hip and iliopsoas
, returned to the courts at the end of December, when he appeared in
Brisbane
. First in doubles, with his coach Marc López, and then in the singles, where he reached the quarterfinals and lost to
Jordan Thompson
. It was there, in that meeting of more than three hours, when he suffered a
muscle micro-tear
.
He did not play the
Australian Open
and neither did the
Miami
or
Indian Wells
Masters , where he traveled taking advantage of his exhibition against
Carlos Alcaraz
in
Las Vegas
. "I'm not ready to play at the highest level," he said from California.