Rafa Nadal is already exercising in Indian Wells, where Friday arrived to adapt to the first Masters 1000 of the season and that will mark his return to competition after the Brisbane tournament that he faced in the first days of 2024 and from which he was injured.
The winner of 22 Grand Slams published a video on social media in which he exercises on the training court.
Nadal, who coincided with the world number one, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, on the flight from Spain to Los Angeles to start preparing for Indian Wells, He plans to hit the court first next Sunday the 3rd, in Las Vegasin an exhibition match with his compatriot Carlos Alcaraz.
Indian Wells, which will be played from March 6 to 17 and that the Spaniard has won three times, the last in 2013, it will, presumably, be the only event that Nadal competes in before starting the clay season.
The Spanish tennis player, who was sidelined from the circuit last year due to a left psoas injury, returned to the competition last January to play in the Brisbane tournament, where he played three matches. He beat Austrian Dominik Thiem and Australian Jason Kubler and lost in the quarterfinals to Jordan Thompson.
In Brisbane Nadal suffered a micro muscle tear in his left hip and had to stop again to recover from the ailment. Now, he has left this new physical setback behind him and is preparing for Indian Wells, which he will compete in after playing the exhibition with Alcaraz.
2024-02-25 20:58:48
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