Rafael Nadal tries to get fit for the ATP World Tour Finals in London after his Paris retreat. His doctor in Barcelona now spoke about the severity of the injury.
“It’s not a new injury. Or an injury that has worsened,”Angel Ruiz told elespanol. com. Nadal had already been to Barcelona on Friday afternoon to be examined.
It’s still a stressful strain Nadal suffered during the Asian tour and for which he retired from the tournament in Basel.”The tendon is suffering,”says Cotorra – the result of the long season.”It’s a pain in a stressful phase.”
The retreat in Paris – Nadal had cancelled his quarter-finals against Filip Krajinovic there – was just the right thing to do, the Doc continued,”In some moments you have to think about other goals. The first was to stop and assess what was going on with the knee, whether something new had happened. Now we know that there is nothing else, but it is a situation that has been going on for some time,” but there is still no all-clear for London,”he will play if he is well. And if he’s not well, he won’t play. We need to see how it develops these days.”
After Nadal’s withdrawal from Paris, all he could hear was positive voices:”Nadal apologized to me ten times and said he couldn’t bear the pain,”explained Tournament Director Guy Forget,”He seemed like a child who had done something wrong. Then I reassured him, even though it was sad news for us. I told him we appreciate the fact that he was trying to attend.”