MADRID, 6 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal is clear that he “does not” aspire “to anything more than being competitive” during his return to the courts, scheduled for the Brisbane tournament (Australia), of the ATP 250 category and which will be held between December 31 and January 7th.
“I have been training for good weeks at a level that allows me to have the possibility of competing again. I have gone through many phases, but today I think it is time to return to a tournament that I have already played in the past and that I “It's familiar. I know it's a difficult tournament, but I hope to be prepared to compete. I don't aspire to anything else, to be competitive,” Nadal said in a video broadcast this Wednesday on his social networks.
“It has been a long year, which has gone through many phases, from trying to compete again in the gravel season, week after week, disappointment after disappointment, until it was time to stop and say 'enough' and to really look for a solution, which was the operation. So, from then on, everything has been a new horizon, a difficult path; but well, always maintaining the hope of returning,” he stated.
Thus, Nadal described the uncertainty surrounding his iliopsoas injury. “Of course there have been many doubts, of course there have been moments when it seemed impossible for this moment to come, but the spirit of work, the enthusiasm, has been maintained and I think I am ready to return. I don't know at what level, I don't know what It can wait; I have no idea, but I don't care right now,” he said.
Finally, the Balearic tennis player reiterated that his main objective will be to enjoy the courts of Brisbane, close to completing a year out of competition due to that injury. “I'm just happy to be back, with the utmost enthusiasm to make the effort necessary to have fun and I think be competitive,” he concluded in his video.