Less than a week after his return, Nadal stops again: he announced that he will not play the Australian Open

Rafael Nadal he announced it on Sunday on his social networks he will not play the Australian Open after the discomfort suffered in the Brisbane tournament, in the quarter-final match against the local Jordan Thompson. The Spaniard returned to action in that competition after almost a year of absence due to an iliopsoas injury in his left leg.

This time, he said, he felt discomfort in the damaged area after playing against Thompson, who beat the winner of twenty-two majors in a match resolved in three sets that lasted more than three hours. But in his testimony he made it clear that it would not be the same injury that kept him away for so long.

“Once I arrived in Melbourne I had the opportunity to have an MRI and I have a micro tear in a musclenot in the same part where I had the injury and that’s good news,” Nadal said on social networks.