The Spaniard is recovering from his foot injury which caused him to suffer at Roland-Garros.
Rafael Nadal, who has just triumphed for the 14th time at Roland-Garros, assured Friday that he had “intend to attempt to playat the Wimbledon tournament which begins on June 27, when a new treatment relieved his pain in his left foot.
«My intention is to try to play at Wimbledon“, declared the Spanish tennis player to the press on his island of Mallorca, in the Balearic archipelago, where he carried out his first grass training sessions on Monday.
«This week of training tells me there may be possibilitiesadded Rafael Nadal, who will travel to London on Monday to train and play a few 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 started two days after his triumph at Roland-Garros a “pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment“which falls asleep”the nerves in the area of the injury from which he suffers“, in the words of his spokesperson. The player said on Friday noting the “changesinduced by this treatment.
«I haven’t been limping for a week. I am happy“, he said, “it reduced the pain that prevented me from pressing” foot.
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