The 21-time grand slam champion had to take his first defeat of this year at the Indian Wells masters tournament more than three weeks ago. Nadal lost in the final against American Taylor Fritz. A few days later, he announced that he had suffered a so-called stress fracture in a rib. It was then expected that the number 4 in the world will be sidelined for about six weeks.
In any case, the Barcelona tournament comes too early for Nadal, who wants to gain some rhythm on the clay in the run-up to Roland Garros. “We don’t know when his first clay-court tournament will be, hopefully soon,” Nadal’s team reported to Reuters news agency. The French Grand Slam tournament starts on May 22. Nadal was thirteen times the best at Roland Garros.
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