BARCELONA: Rafael Nadal withdrew from the Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday, where the 22-time Grand Slam winner was anticipated to make his ATP Tour return.
“Unfortunately I need to inform you that I am not going to be playing in Monte Carlo. My body merely will not enable me,” stated the 37-year-old Spaniard on social networks.
The record 11-time Monte Carlo winner missed out on practically all of the 2023 season through injury and has actually just dipped into the Brisbane International this season, where he felt a hip injury flare-up.
He lost versus Carlos Alcaraz in a Las Vegas exhibit in March before taking out of the Indian Wells Masters, where he had actually very first planned to make his return.
“Even if I am striving and making the optimum effort every day with all the will to play and complete once again at competitions that have actually been really crucial for me, the reality is that I can’t play today,” Nadal continued.
“You have no concept how hard this is for me to not have the ability to play these occasions.
“The only thing I can do is to accept the circumstance and attempt to take a look at the instant future keeping the enjoyment and will to play in order to offer me an opportunity for things to improve.”