Spanish tennisč Rafael Nadal he said on Wednesday that he will play at Roland-Garros, the second Grand Slam tournament of the season, if he “feels ready enough”.
– If Roland-Garros was tomorrow, I wouldn’t play – said on Wednesday, before his performance at the tournament in Madrid, 38-year-old Nadal, who has 22 Grand Slam titles in his collection, and won Roland-Garros fourteen times. .
– If I don’t play Roland-Garros, it doesn’t mean that everything is over. There are Olympic Games, there are different formats in which it can be played – he added.
After missing a year from the tennis courts due to an injury, and then missing this year’s Masters series tournaments in Monte Carlo and Indian Wells, Nadal played last week in the tournament in Barcelona where he was defeated in the second round. At the tournament in Madrid, he performs with a protected ranking.