Rafael Nadal was widely expected to team up with Roger Federer in doubles on Sunday. Later the Spanish sensation was also meant to face his “polar opposite” Nick Kyrgios. Unfortunately, things went quite bad, and the Spaniard had to withdraw with an injury.
It’s not a wrist injury, but a hand inflammation. NADAL
Rafa explained what happened and why he decided to withdraw:
“I am a bit sad of course especially [I had the big assignment to play the doubles with Roger. I honestly know that’s the thing that I’m more sad because in singles I know Dominic is gonna be there and he going to do it unbelievable. Since a couple of years, I still I have that feeling on the hand. It is an inflammation of the articulation and on the hand, it is not the wrist.
Yesterday I did an infiltration to play. I just let the hand play and when you lift the hand sometimes the next day you are a little bit better, sometimes relatively worse and today I think is a little bit more inflamed in the morning.”
Rafael Nadal’s ranking and performance in 2019
Ranked no.2, Rafael played his last match on the 8th of September when he beat Daniil Medvedev 7-5 6-3 5-7 4-6 6-4 in the final in U.S. Open to win his 84th career title.
This year Nadal has a 47-6 win-loss record. Rafael conquered 4 titles in 2019 in Rome, at the French Open, in Montreal and at the U.S. Open. The Spaniard was the finalist at the Australian Open.
