Nadal’s disappointment after announcing his retirement from Wimbledon semi-finals due to injury. AP / Joe Toth.
Rafael Nadal will not play the Canadian Masters 1000 due to “a little annoyance” that appeared at the time of the service while training at his academy in Mallorca.
The same tennis player announced it through his Twitter account, where he was cautious about finishing recovering from the abdominal injury that left him out of Wimbledon and arriving at the US Open in optimal conditions.
“From the days off and my subsequent return to training, everything has been fine in recent weeks. Four days ago I also started training the service and Yesterday, after training, I had a little annoyance that was still there today “, He began by describing Rafa.
“We have decided not to go to Montreal and to continue training without forcing. I sincerely thank the tournament director, Eugene and his entire team for the understanding and support they have always shown me and today was no exception, “he continued.
I hope to play again in Montreal, a tournament that I love and that I have won five times in front of an audience that has always welcomed me with great affection. I have no choice but to be cautious at this point and think about health “he concluded.
It remains to be seen whether he will be present in Cincinnati, a tournament that, for various reasons, he missed in the last four seasons and where he was champion in 2013.
The fight for the number 1
In this way Nadal, leader of the Race (annual ranking), he loses ground in the fight to be number 1 in the world againsince today it belongs to the Russians Daniel Medvedev, and will have to bet all his chips on the US Open, bearing in mind that he usually doesn’t add many points in the last leg of the season (Shanghai, Paris and ATP Finals).
The Majorcan has no points to defend for the rest of this 2022 and finds himself with excellent chances of discounting the 955 that separate him from the Russian, who, for instead he defends the titles of the Masters 1000 of Canada and also of the US Open, in addition to the finals of Paris-Bercy and the ATP Finals.
This, added to a alexander zverev who is still recovering from the injury suffered at Roland Garros and the difficulty of Novak Djokovic to put together his calendar, they gave him a glimmer of hope with his return to the summit. However, injuries come back on his way.
In this context, Carlos Alcaraz and Stefanos Tsitsipas are thrilled to reach the summit for the first time. Today I am second and third respectively in the race.
Djokovic, he is also short
Novak Djokovic is another heavy absentee for the Canadian Masters 1000which will be held from 5 to 14 August in Montreal, given that the health policy of that country requires that the unvaccinated are placed in quarantine 14 days after arrival.
The Serbian continues with the problems after being banned from the Australian Open and the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Miami. Furthermore, in addition to his coronation in All England, he lost the 2,000 points of his title at Wimbledon, due to the dispute between the ATP and the organizers of the tournament over the veto of the Russians and Belarusians, and it is almost a fact that he won’t be able to play at both the US Open and Cincinnati.
Last Saturday, via his Twitter account, he posted a training video on the track and showed a glimmer of hope of traveling to the United States, but the landscape is complex. Today he is sixth in the standings, tenth in the race, and his qualification for the ATP Finals is in serious danger.
Source: Clarin
