Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal announced on Thursday that he will miss the Roland Garros tournament, the Grand Slam event in which he holds the record for titles, due to an abdominal injury.
“The injury I got in Australia didn’t evolve the way we wanted. The main thing, which is Roland Garros, is impossible. Imagine how hard it is for me after playing without it for so many years. It wasn’t a decision I made, it was a decision that my body took over,” Nadal said at a press conference.
The Spaniard, who won 14 of his 22 majors on clay in Paris, he hasn’t played since the Australian Open and will now miss Roland Garros, dropping him out of the top 100 in the world, something that hasn’t happened in over 20 years.
Since 2005, when he made his debut at Roland Garros with the overall victory, Nadal, aged 36 and currently ranked 14th in the world, has not failed to visit the ‘cathedral’ of Parisian clay.
Source: DN
