Rafael Nadal was eliminated from the Brisbane International after losing 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-3 to local talent Jordan Thompson in the quarterfinals. This was the 22-time Grand Slam champion’s first tournament since returning from a hip flexor injury after a year-long absence.

“I hope to have the chance to be practicing next week and to play in Melbourne,” Nadal commented after his loss, referring to this year’s Australian Open. It was during this grand slam that Nadal suffered his injury, forcing him out of the tournament and resulting in him undergoing a season-ending surgery.

While the 37-year-old breezed through his first two matches with straight-set victories over Dominic Thiem and Jason Kubler, his match against Thompson was a grueling one, lasting three hours and 25 minutes. The length of the match took a toll on Nadal’s body, with the former ATP world number one being assessed by a trainer during the third set for an upper left leg injury. Following his medical timeout, he saw out the match.

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22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has revealed that he could return to the court at next year’s Australian Open after being ruled out of the current season through injury. The Spanish veteran hinted at his return with a post on social media platform X.

This update comes days after Nadal uploaded a picture of himself on the practice court. Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley later announced that the 37-year-old player would make his return to tennis at the first Grand Slam of the year, however, this statement has not yet been confirmed by Nadal himself. Aside from the two-time Australian Open champion, Nick Kyrgios and Naomi Osaka are also rumored to be returning to tennis at the Melbourne-based Grand Slam.

The Australian Open is the last tournament that Nadal played in. He withdrew from the tournament at the start of this year after suffering a hip injury which he went on to get surgery to remedy.

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Rafael Nadal is expected to miss the remainder of this year’s ATP Tour after undergoing surgery on a hip muscle, his representative, Benito Perez-Barbadillo, confirmed. The recovery time for this injury is expected to be five months.

“Rafa will begin his progressive functional rehabilitation in a few hours, and the normal recovery process is estimated at five months, always taking into account respecting the biological times of said structure,” Perez-Barbadillo told reporters.

Currently, joint-holder of the men’s singles record for career Grand Slams at 22 titles, Nadal has been sidelined since January, when he withdrew from his second-round match in the Australian Open after suffering a hip flexor injury.

Previously, Nadal hinted that 2024 could be his final season of tennis before retirement. While he misses this season’s Roland Garros, Nadal will hope to recover in time to be able to make one last appearance at the 2024 French Open; the tournament he has won on a record 14 occasions.

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Rafael Nadal announced on Thursday that he wouldn’t take part in this year’s French Open due to a hip injury. The Spanish tennis player also said that he will likely retire after the 2024 tennis season.

Nadal didn’t play since January when he was eliminated in the second round of the Australian Open by Mackenzie McDonald. The 37-year-old player was visibly bothered by a hip injury from which he still hasn’t recovered four months later.

Speaking with Spanish media this week, Nadal said that he wanted to play at French Open but that his body wasn’t ready for the challenge.

“Even though your head wants to keep going, your body says this is as far it goes,” Nadal told the reporters.

Nadal expects that he won’t be ready to play again for at least several months but does intend to make one final run next year.

“You never know how things will turn out, but my intention is that next year will be my last year,” he added.

Rafael Nadal is currently tied with Novak Djokovic for most Grand Slam titles with 22. More than half of those titles (14) came at French Open, where he has played every year since 2018 and has a 112-3 record. He was forced to withdraw at the 2016 French Open due to a wrist injury before the third round.

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Rafael Nadal is looking to make his return from his hip injury at the Monte Carlo Masters next month, thereby giving himself some clay court action before the return of Roland Garros.

The tournament, which begins on April 8, will be Nadal’s first appearance since the Australian Open, which he pulled out of after picking up a left hip flexor injury. He also missed out on the Indian Wells and Miami Open Masters tournaments as a result of his injury.

“Rafa was the first [player] to be registered,” Monte Carlo Masters tournament director David Massey confirmed on Wednesday. “He really wants to play at the Monte Carlo Masters and is giving himself every chance to take part in the tournament he’s so fond of.”

At 36 years old, Rafael Nadal holds the record for most wins at the Monte Carlo Masters, winning the tournament a record 11 times. This includes an Open era record streak of eight consecutive titles from 2005 to 2012.

For Nadal, the Monte Carlo Masters is a key part of his preparation for the Roland Garros Grand Slam, where he has won 14 titles. Nadal has won a record 22-time Grand Slams throughout his career.

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An exhibition match between Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on Sunday has been canceled after both Spaniards incurred injuries. Customers who already purchased tickets will be refunded as a result.

The organizers of the event revealed on Wednesday that the 19-year-old Alcaraz injured his right hamstring. While not yet confirmed to be an injury of a severe nature, Alcaraz has also pulled out of this week’s tournament in Acapulco, Mexico as a result.

Nadal has been injured since January when he picked up a hip flexor problem. As a result, he was sidelined during the Australian Open and will now miss the upcoming Indian Wells and Miami Open Masters 1000 tournaments.

With both players at opposite ends of their careers, the exhibition match would have shown two generational talents hailing from Spain. Nadal currently holds a record 22 Grand Slam titles, while the teenaged Alcaraz claimed his first Grand Slam success at the US Open last year. The countrymen finished the 2022 season as the top two players in the ATP World Rankings.

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Four-time US Open winner and number two seed Rafael Nadal suffered an early exit from the Grand Slam on Monday, losing 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-3 to American Frances Tiafoe in the Round of 16. “I felt like the world stopped. I couldn’t hear anything for a minute,” an emotional Tiafoe admitted following his victory.

In addition to the feat of defeating the all-time leading men’s singles Grand Slam winner in front of his home crowd, the 24-year-old also became the youngest American man to make it to the semi-finals since Andy Roddick in 2006. Intriguingly, Tiafoe’s win means that this is the first US Open without the top two seeded men making it to the quarterfinals since 2000.

For Tiafoe, the experience of defeating Nadal was surreal, especially with his parents Constant and Alphina watching from his guest box in the Arthur Ashe Stadium. “To see them experience me beat Rafa Nadal — they’ve seen me have big wins, but to beat those Mount Rushmore guys? For them, I can’t imagine what was going through their heads. I mean, they’re going to remember today for the rest of their lives,” Tiafoe stated.

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Wimbledon second-seed Rafael Nadal pulled out of his semi-final showdown with Australia’s Nick Kyrgios on Friday after suffering a torn abdominal muscle.

The two-time Wimbledon champion announced his decision to withdraw to a room full of reporters late Thursday. “Unfortunately, as you can imagine if I am here, I have to pull out from the tournament. As everybody saw yesterday, I have been suffering with the pain in abdominal. I know something was not okay there, as I said yesterday,” Nadal confirmed.

The 36-year-old player revealed that he had been experiencing abdominal pain for a few weeks already, however, this pain worsened during his quarterfinal clash with Taylor Fritz on Wednesday; a match that went to five sets. His pain intensified while serving.

Nadal was spotted training for 45 minutes on Thursday morning, mostly hitting forehands and backhands while occasionally practicing his serves at a reduced speed. Reportedly dealing with a 7-millimeter tear in one of his abdominal muscles, Nadal ultimately concluded that it would not be within his best interest to play with this injury.

After being handed a walkover following Nadal’s withdrawal, would-be opponent Nick Kyrgios is now due to appear in his first Wimbledon final, where he will play the winner of the semi-final matchup between number one seed Novak Djokovic and Cameron Norrie.

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Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios are set to meet again at Wimbledon’s Center Court. This time, however, the stakes are the highest they have ever been, with the Wimbledon finals appearance for the taking.

Nadal has to work hard to secure semi-finals at this year’s tournament, being a set down twice in his quarterfinals clash against the American Taylor Fritz. The Grand Slam recorder bounced back each time and then survived a tiebreak in the fifth set to claim a memorable 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4) win.

Kyrgios, on the other hand, was much more convincing. He is on to the next round after straight sets (6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5)) win over Chilean Cristian Garin. The match against Nadal will be the first Grand Slam semi-finals appearance for the 27-year-old Australian.

Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios have an intriguing head-to-head history, with their best matches coming at Wimbledon. The duo first faced each other at the All England Club in 2014 in Round 16. Kyrgios, making his Wimbledon debut, beat Nadal, the world’s No. 1 one at the time, in four sets. Nadal would go on to return the favor in 2019 when he beat Kyrgios in Round of 64.

Nadal won six matches, while Kyrgios has three wins in their head-to-head clashes. They most recently faced each other in the quarterfinals of 2022 Indian Wells, with Nadal being triumphant after three sets.

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The reigning French Open champion Novak Djokovic has ended his run at the 2022 Roland Garros. Djokovic lost to Rafael Nadal in a thrilling quarter-finals match that lasted more than four hours.

Nadal had a fierce opening of the match, massively outplaying Djokovic in the first set and winning 6-2. The Serbian bounced back in the second, finding his rhythm and winning the set 6-4.

The third set also saw a one-sided affair, with Nadal returning to the top with a 6-2 display. The fourth, however, was a much closer contest. It was determined in the tiebreak, where Djokovic found himself on the losing end despite managing to save three match points.

Speaking after the match, Nadal downplayed his win and said that it’s only a step towards his final goal, which is adding another Roland Garros trophy to his resume.

“It has been a very emotional night for me. I’m still playing for nights like today,” Nadal said. “But it’s just a quarter-final match, no? So I didn’t win anything. So I just [need to] give myself a chance to be back on the court in two days, play another semifinals here in Roland Garros. [It] means a lot to me.”

Nadal will now continue to chase his 14th French Open title, which would help him extend his record Grand Slam haul to 22. He faces Alexander Zverev in the next round.

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Rafael Nadal was eliminated from the Brisbane International after losing 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-3 to local talent Jordan Thompson in the quarterfinals. This was the 22-time Grand Slam champion’s first tournament since returning from a hip flexor injury after a year-long absence.

“I hope to have the chance to be practicing next week and to play in Melbourne,” Nadal commented after his loss, referring to this year’s Australian Open. It was during this grand slam that Nadal suffered his injury, forcing him out of the tournament and resulting in him undergoing a season-ending surgery.

While the 37-year-old breezed through his first two matches with straight-set victories over Dominic Thiem and Jason Kubler, his match against Thompson was a grueling one, lasting three hours and 25 minutes. The length of the match took a toll on Nadal’s body, with the former ATP world number one being assessed by a trainer during the third set for an upper left leg injury. Following his medical timeout, he saw out the match.

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22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has revealed that he could return to the court at next year’s Australian Open after being ruled out of the current season through injury. The Spanish veteran hinted at his return with a post on social media platform X.

This update comes days after Nadal uploaded a picture of himself on the practice court. Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley later announced that the 37-year-old player would make his return to tennis at the first Grand Slam of the year, however, this statement has not yet been confirmed by Nadal himself. Aside from the two-time Australian Open champion, Nick Kyrgios and Naomi Osaka are also rumored to be returning to tennis at the Melbourne-based Grand Slam.

The Australian Open is the last tournament that Nadal played in. He withdrew from the tournament at the start of this year after suffering a hip injury which he went on to get surgery to remedy.

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Rafael Nadal is expected to miss the remainder of this year’s ATP Tour after undergoing surgery on a hip muscle, his representative, Benito Perez-Barbadillo, confirmed. The recovery time for this injury is expected to be five months.

“Rafa will begin his progressive functional rehabilitation in a few hours, and the normal recovery process is estimated at five months, always taking into account respecting the biological times of said structure,” Perez-Barbadillo told reporters.

Currently, joint-holder of the men’s singles record for career Grand Slams at 22 titles, Nadal has been sidelined since January, when he withdrew from his second-round match in the Australian Open after suffering a hip flexor injury.

Previously, Nadal hinted that 2024 could be his final season of tennis before retirement. While he misses this season’s Roland Garros, Nadal will hope to recover in time to be able to make one last appearance at the 2024 French Open; the tournament he has won on a record 14 occasions.

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Rafael Nadal announced on Thursday that he wouldn’t take part in this year’s French Open due to a hip injury. The Spanish tennis player also said that he will likely retire after the 2024 tennis season.

Nadal didn’t play since January when he was eliminated in the second round of the Australian Open by Mackenzie McDonald. The 37-year-old player was visibly bothered by a hip injury from which he still hasn’t recovered four months later.

Speaking with Spanish media this week, Nadal said that he wanted to play at French Open but that his body wasn’t ready for the challenge.

“Even though your head wants to keep going, your body says this is as far it goes,” Nadal told the reporters.

Nadal expects that he won’t be ready to play again for at least several months but does intend to make one final run next year.

“You never know how things will turn out, but my intention is that next year will be my last year,” he added.

Rafael Nadal is currently tied with Novak Djokovic for most Grand Slam titles with 22. More than half of those titles (14) came at French Open, where he has played every year since 2018 and has a 112-3 record. He was forced to withdraw at the 2016 French Open due to a wrist injury before the third round.

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Rafael Nadal is looking to make his return from his hip injury at the Monte Carlo Masters next month, thereby giving himself some clay court action before the return of Roland Garros.

The tournament, which begins on April 8, will be Nadal’s first appearance since the Australian Open, which he pulled out of after picking up a left hip flexor injury. He also missed out on the Indian Wells and Miami Open Masters tournaments as a result of his injury.

“Rafa was the first [player] to be registered,” Monte Carlo Masters tournament director David Massey confirmed on Wednesday. “He really wants to play at the Monte Carlo Masters and is giving himself every chance to take part in the tournament he’s so fond of.”

At 36 years old, Rafael Nadal holds the record for most wins at the Monte Carlo Masters, winning the tournament a record 11 times. This includes an Open era record streak of eight consecutive titles from 2005 to 2012.

For Nadal, the Monte Carlo Masters is a key part of his preparation for the Roland Garros Grand Slam, where he has won 14 titles. Nadal has won a record 22-time Grand Slams throughout his career.

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An exhibition match between Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on Sunday has been canceled after both Spaniards incurred injuries. Customers who already purchased tickets will be refunded as a result.

The organizers of the event revealed on Wednesday that the 19-year-old Alcaraz injured his right hamstring. While not yet confirmed to be an injury of a severe nature, Alcaraz has also pulled out of this week’s tournament in Acapulco, Mexico as a result.

Nadal has been injured since January when he picked up a hip flexor problem. As a result, he was sidelined during the Australian Open and will now miss the upcoming Indian Wells and Miami Open Masters 1000 tournaments.

With both players at opposite ends of their careers, the exhibition match would have shown two generational talents hailing from Spain. Nadal currently holds a record 22 Grand Slam titles, while the teenaged Alcaraz claimed his first Grand Slam success at the US Open last year. The countrymen finished the 2022 season as the top two players in the ATP World Rankings.

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Four-time US Open winner and number two seed Rafael Nadal suffered an early exit from the Grand Slam on Monday, losing 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-3 to American Frances Tiafoe in the Round of 16. “I felt like the world stopped. I couldn’t hear anything for a minute,” an emotional Tiafoe admitted following his victory.

In addition to the feat of defeating the all-time leading men’s singles Grand Slam winner in front of his home crowd, the 24-year-old also became the youngest American man to make it to the semi-finals since Andy Roddick in 2006. Intriguingly, Tiafoe’s win means that this is the first US Open without the top two seeded men making it to the quarterfinals since 2000.

For Tiafoe, the experience of defeating Nadal was surreal, especially with his parents Constant and Alphina watching from his guest box in the Arthur Ashe Stadium. “To see them experience me beat Rafa Nadal — they’ve seen me have big wins, but to beat those Mount Rushmore guys? For them, I can’t imagine what was going through their heads. I mean, they’re going to remember today for the rest of their lives,” Tiafoe stated.

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Wimbledon second-seed Rafael Nadal pulled out of his semi-final showdown with Australia’s Nick Kyrgios on Friday after suffering a torn abdominal muscle.

The two-time Wimbledon champion announced his decision to withdraw to a room full of reporters late Thursday. “Unfortunately, as you can imagine if I am here, I have to pull out from the tournament. As everybody saw yesterday, I have been suffering with the pain in abdominal. I know something was not okay there, as I said yesterday,” Nadal confirmed.

The 36-year-old player revealed that he had been experiencing abdominal pain for a few weeks already, however, this pain worsened during his quarterfinal clash with Taylor Fritz on Wednesday; a match that went to five sets. His pain intensified while serving.

Nadal was spotted training for 45 minutes on Thursday morning, mostly hitting forehands and backhands while occasionally practicing his serves at a reduced speed. Reportedly dealing with a 7-millimeter tear in one of his abdominal muscles, Nadal ultimately concluded that it would not be within his best interest to play with this injury.

After being handed a walkover following Nadal’s withdrawal, would-be opponent Nick Kyrgios is now due to appear in his first Wimbledon final, where he will play the winner of the semi-final matchup between number one seed Novak Djokovic and Cameron Norrie.

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Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios are set to meet again at Wimbledon’s Center Court. This time, however, the stakes are the highest they have ever been, with the Wimbledon finals appearance for the taking.

Nadal has to work hard to secure semi-finals at this year’s tournament, being a set down twice in his quarterfinals clash against the American Taylor Fritz. The Grand Slam recorder bounced back each time and then survived a tiebreak in the fifth set to claim a memorable 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4) win.

Kyrgios, on the other hand, was much more convincing. He is on to the next round after straight sets (6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5)) win over Chilean Cristian Garin. The match against Nadal will be the first Grand Slam semi-finals appearance for the 27-year-old Australian.

Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios have an intriguing head-to-head history, with their best matches coming at Wimbledon. The duo first faced each other at the All England Club in 2014 in Round 16. Kyrgios, making his Wimbledon debut, beat Nadal, the world’s No. 1 one at the time, in four sets. Nadal would go on to return the favor in 2019 when he beat Kyrgios in Round of 64.

Nadal won six matches, while Kyrgios has three wins in their head-to-head clashes. They most recently faced each other in the quarterfinals of 2022 Indian Wells, with Nadal being triumphant after three sets.

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The reigning French Open champion Novak Djokovic has ended his run at the 2022 Roland Garros. Djokovic lost to Rafael Nadal in a thrilling quarter-finals match that lasted more than four hours.

Nadal had a fierce opening of the match, massively outplaying Djokovic in the first set and winning 6-2. The Serbian bounced back in the second, finding his rhythm and winning the set 6-4.

The third set also saw a one-sided affair, with Nadal returning to the top with a 6-2 display. The fourth, however, was a much closer contest. It was determined in the tiebreak, where Djokovic found himself on the losing end despite managing to save three match points.

Speaking after the match, Nadal downplayed his win and said that it’s only a step towards his final goal, which is adding another Roland Garros trophy to his resume.

“It has been a very emotional night for me. I’m still playing for nights like today,” Nadal said. “But it’s just a quarter-final match, no? So I didn’t win anything. So I just [need to] give myself a chance to be back on the court in two days, play another semifinals here in Roland Garros. [It] means a lot to me.”

Nadal will now continue to chase his 14th French Open title, which would help him extend his record Grand Slam haul to 22. He faces Alexander Zverev in the next round.

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