Winner Spain’s Rafael Nadal returned after a seven month absence with a knee injury to produce one of his finest ever years. He missed the Australian Open, but was back to his best to win the French Open for a record eighth time, becoming the only male player to win at least one Gra...
Nadal would string together another five victories between 2013 and 2014 before Federer claimed six of his own (2015 to 2019), coinciding with the period when the Spaniard was returning from a significant right-knee injury. These would prove to be the last encounters in a rivalry whose final ...
Rafael Nadal pulls out of US Open with knee injuryBy RACHEL COHEN
World No 1 Rafael Nadal suffered an agonising three-set defeat to David Goffin at the ATP Finals and thenpulled out of the tournament due to his injured right knee. Nadal admitted he was not training at 100 per cent following his withdrawal from the Paris Masters with ...
Temperatures are forecast to soar into the 90s in the next few days, conditions that should favour Nadal. Article content “For me, for my knee, for my foot, for everything is better when the conditions are warmer,” he said. “I love practicing and playing in days like today: no win...
Moreover, when Nadal lost for the first time in the French Open in 2009, ending a four-year streak, a knee injury played a crucial role in it. In 2012, he suffered a tear in a tendon in his left knee, which forced him off the tour for seven months and also became a reason for...
At the US Open, Nadal lost in round two to Younes El Aynaoui. In September, Nadal entered the final Challenger event of his career, on hard courts in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, retiring with an injury against Richard Gasquet, who never defeated Nadal again. Nadal finished the year ranked as th...
Rafael Nadal said on Friday that he will end his 2021 season early because of a left foot issue that has been troubling him for a year, ruling him out of this month's US Open.
In 2007, Nadal was close to dethroning the sport's reigning king, Roger Federer, to win the tournament for the first time. But then, in keeping with an unfortunate theme of Nadal's career, his body betrayed him, a knee injury this time. ...
Nadal was a hot favorite to win the title at Melbourne Park and become the first man to win each of the four Grand Slam tournaments twice in the Open era - instead, his injury curse struck again in Australia. "Rafa, I'm really sorry for you, I hope your back is going to be fine...