Member LoginMember Login - User registration - Setup as front page - Add to favorites - Sitemap Nadal returns to Roland Garros to practice amid doubts over fitness and form !

Nadal returns to Roland Garros to practice amid doubts over fitness and form

Time:2024-05-21 17:48:18 source:Worldly Wonders news portal

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal returned to Roland Garros on Monday to practice and try and figure out whether to compete at the French Open he has won 14 times.

The 37-year-old Spaniard showed up with his coach Carlos Moya. A video on the Open’s official social media showed Nadal arriving by car.

The training was set for 5 p.m. local time (1500 GMT). It would give him a chance to reacquaint himself with Court Philippe Chatrier’s red clay — he hasn’t played a match there in two years — and test his fitness.

The tournament begins on Sunday and it remains uncertain if Nadal will enter.

He is still regaining his match readiness after missing nearly all of 2023 with a hip injury that required surgery, and much of this season because of problems with a hip muscle and an abdominal muscle.

His recent loss in the Italian Open second round ( to Hubert Hurkacz 6-1, 6-3) left Nadal unsure about whether he would consider himself ready for the French Open.

Related information
  • Independent UN experts urge Yemen’s Houthis to free detained Baha'i followers
  • Budget supermarket Lidl says it will host Liam Gallagher if crisis
  • French cyberwarriors ready to test their defense against hackers and malware during the Olympics
  • Inside King Charles's '12
  • Cruise worker 'murders newborn son on board ship': Shocked co
  • Jewish students grapple with how to respond to pro
  • A suspected Islamic State group attack on pro
  • Inside Vicky Pattison and Ercan Ramadan's 'Sten': 'Mrs Patti
Recommended content
  • Iran helicopter crash that killed President Raisi could reverberate across the Middle East
  • Carlos Alcaraz withdraws from Italian Open with right forearm injury
  • Soccer fan arrested in Marseille as authorities investigate reports of Nazi salute, monkey chants
  • Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, wife indicted over ties to Azerbaijan
  • Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University
  • Rublev beats Fritz to reach Madrid Open final against Auger