Rafael Nadal He assured this Wednesday that he will do “everything possible” to “try to start the dirt season”, but he refused to make predictions and set the exact place for his return. The Spanish tennis player has been absent since the exhibition match against Carlos Alcaraz in it Netflix Slam and when everything indicated that his return would be in Indian Wellsa new setback once again delayed his appearance on the courts, so now the dream of many is that he can hold the racket on the clay.
“The first objective is to try to compete and I go day by day,” he said. «I will do my best to try to start the gravel season, which is my goal, I am working for that and making an effort with that goal, but from now on what may happen I no longer dare to say anything because lately it has been difficult for me to make predictions, “unfortunately,” he said before the awards ceremony. II Rafal Nadal Foundation Awards in Palma.
«I have not stopped training at any time. I am trying at all times. I feel fine, I just haven't been able to follow the schedule I would have liked at the moment. I hope things can change, but as you can imagine I can't say because I don't even know,” he said.
Regarding whether he is optimistic about his return to competition in the immediate future, he commented: “It doesn't matter optimistic or not optimistic; I'm realist. For a year and a half or two it has been impossible for me to compete, so the first objective is to try to compete and I go day by day.
Nadal goes day by day
«If I had to be optimistic or negative, I probably wouldn't even be trying anymore. It's a long time, I have a very long age and career behind me. In the end I try to be neither one thing nor the other, go day by day, do the work I have to do to give myself opportunities and we will see how long we can try,” he highlighted.
Regarding his resignation from playing the recent Indian Wells tournament, he explained: “The reality is that I did not feel prepared to start playing a tournament of this level, with the little background I had behind training at the level I needed.” “I didn't want to start a tournament coming from where I come from, without any guarantee of being able to advance at least to the levels that I think I have to demand of myself to try to start a tournament,” he said.