Rafa Nadal will not be in Monte Carlo either. The Spaniard's body is not yet prepared for high competition and the Spaniard will be absent from the first stop of the European clay court tour.
«These are difficult times for me sportingly speaking. Unfortunately I inform you that I am not going to play in Monte Carlo. My body just won't let me. And although I continue working and trying my best every day with the hope of being able to compete in tournaments that have been very important to me, the reality is that today I cannot. “You can't imagine how difficult it is for me not to have the opportunity to play these events once again,” Nadal said in a statement.
“I have no choice but to accept the situation and try to look towards the immediate future, maintaining hope and desire to try to give myself the opportunity for things to improve,” added the Spaniard.
Nadal's 2024 is being the story of an effort and, after a year without being able to compete due to an iliopsoas injury that became more complicated, his return in Brisbane, at the beginning of January, was more than hopeful, with two good victories, followed by a duel of more than three hours against Jordan Thompson that led to a muscle micro-tear and subsequent withdrawal in Australia.
There began the odyssey to compete again. Nadal had to be absent from Doha and Indian Wells. The first, for not being recovered from the micro-tear and the second for a back problem that arose while he was training for the Netflix exhibition that he played against Carlos Alcaraz in Las Vegas.
Barcelona, Madrid and Rome
Although he has been training these days on clay at his academy in Manacor, one day before the Monte Carlo draw, he decided to give up a tournament that he has won eleven times, eight of them consecutively between 2005 and 2012. His last triumph in the Principality dates back to 2018.
Without Monte Carlo, which begins next week, on the horizon, Nadal still has four stops left on the clay tour. The Spaniard has planned, as long as his body allows him, to play in Barcelona, from April 15 to 21; Madrid, from April 24 to May 5; and Rome, from May 8 to 19, before Roland Garros, which begins on May 26.
Nadal's last match on clay dates back precisely to his last appearance at Roland Garros. It was on June 5, 2022 when he defeated Casper Ruud in the final in Paris to lift his fourteenth title at Roland Garros.
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