Tennis: Nadal beaten and touched ten days before Roland-Garros – RMC Sport

Rafael Nadal, physically affected, was eliminated in the round of 16 of the Masters 1000 in Rome by the Canadian Denis Shapovalov (16th in the world), 1-6, 7-5, 6-2, Thursday ten days before the start of Roland-Garros .Concern for Rafael Nadal ten days before the start of Roland-Garros. The winner of 13 trophies on the Porte d’Auteuil side, the Spaniard left the Madrid Masters 1000 on a setback that could be more than a defeat against Denis Shapovalov in the round of 16 (1-6, 7- 5, 6-2). After clearly dominating the first round, the Spaniard (4th player in the world) gradually dropped in level until he clearly had great difficulty moving around. The Majorcan suffers from a chronic foot injury which forced him to end his season last year in August. He only returned to competition in January to win the Australian Open and bring the record for Grand Slam titles to 21. Four weeks off this season After this success, the Canadian will face the Norwegian Casper Ruud ( 10th player in the world) on Friday to try to clinch a place in the last four. Already absent for many months in 2021 due to this foot injury, Nadal had to stop for four weeks this season after a crack in a rating contracted in Indian Wells. The Spaniard was able to resume training on April 18. The timing to get in shape at Roland-Garros then seemed good, he who had shown great things in previous tournaments. But ten days before the start of the Parisian Grand Slam, a negative trend is now emerging for those who wish to recover their property abandoned to Novak Djokovic last year. Rafael Nadal then explained that he had “again very bad foot” during his match against Denis Shapovalov. “I didn’t get injured, I’m a player who lives with this injury. There’s nothing new. It’s there…, he continued. Unfortunately, my daily life is difficult. Even so I do my best. Of course, sometimes I find it hard to accept the situation. It’s frustrating sometimes when I can’t train normally for several days. Today, it started again (to make me suffer) in the middle of the second set, and it became unbearable.”