Rafael Nadal must be five months off leave after the hip operation to which the Balearic tennis player underwent on Friday, carried out at the Teknon Clinic in Barcelona, which consisted of cleaning the fibrotic and degenerated areas of the tendon at the proximal and distal level, as well as suturing it to adequately reinforce it, according to the medical report provided this Saturday by the doctors, marc philippon, Jaume Vilaro and Angel Ruiz-Cotorro.
During the operation, he also took advantage of an old lesion to the labrum of his left hip which, according to the doctors, “will surely help the tendon evolve better.”“.
The expected recovery periods have been set at “five months, always taking into account respecting biological times.” This situation will prevent Nadal from resuming his training for the end of the season where, initially, he had the intention of being able to play the Davis Cup, if Spain qualifies for the November finals to be held in Malaga and captain David Ferrer considered it appropriate.
Nadal has not played since January 18, when he was injured at the Australian Open, in the second round. Then the doctors diagnosed him with “a grade 2 injury to the iliopsoas in his left leg”, which had to be recovered within six to eight weeks. It was not so. Subsequently, he gradually withdrew from all the tournaments he had planned to play (Dubai, Indian Wells, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome) until a week after the start of Roland Garros he announced his resignation from playing in Paris, where there was no lack of since 2005, when he won the first of his 14 titles at Roland Garros.
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The former number 1 announced a temporary withdrawal with the intention of ending his career in 2024 to “face next year with guarantees, which I suspect will be my last year. I want to give myself the opportunity to play the tournament that I feel like next year “.
Nadal already promised that he would exhaust all his options to return to the courts. “I don’t deserve to say goodbye like that, in a press conference,” he said. The operation to which he has undergone was necessary to be able to reappear and compete at a professional level.