Rafael Nadal’s injury-plagued season is all however over after the Spaniard underwent surgical procedure on a hip muscle which is able to preserve him out of motion for an estimated 5 months.
The 14-times French Open champion, who has received a males’s joint-record 22 majors, has been out of motion since January after hurting his hip flexor in a second-round defeat by Mackenzie McDonald on the Australian Open.
“Rafa will begin his progressive functional rehabilitation in a few hours,” Nadal’s consultant Benito Perez-Barbadillo stated in a press release on Saturday.
“The normal recovery process is estimated at five months, always taking into account respecting the biological times of said structure.”
Nadal marked his thirty seventh birthday in hospital on Saturday, moderately than on the French Open, the place his presence has been massively missed by followers at Roland Garros this 12 months.
Nadal has additionally stated that 2024 is more likely to be his final 12 months as an expert participant and his physician Angel Ruiz-Cotorro stated he anticipated him to make a comeback.
“I expect Rafa will recover perfectly in the time necessary or maybe even less,” Ruiz-Cotorro stated. “It will depend on the evolution. There are different processes in this injury.
“First of all it is a bit relaxation however we are going to start some rehabilitation and after six weeks we are going to see what occurs… after which clearly he’ll begin taking part in tennis very slowly.”
Nadal was initially expected to be out of action for eight weeks after suffering the injury but it has ended up decimating his season.
In March, Nadal fell out of the top-10 for the primary time since 2005 and is now fifteenth.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
