Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal underwent surgery this Friday. “a minor operation” with arthroscopy to revise the lesion of the left psoas This forced him to leave the Australian Open in January and miss every tournament played since then, according to the press team.

This intervention was carried out by doctors in Barcelona. Marc Philippon, Jaume Vilaró and Ángel Ruiz-Cotorro and this Saturday, the day the Spaniard turns 37, they will report the result and give more information about his situation.

Nadal has only completed four games so far in 2023. He played in the United Cup and lost two matches to England’s Cameron Norrie and Australia’s Alex de Minaur.

He then went to the Australian Open and was injured in the second round. Defeated British Jack Draper and lost to American Mackenzie McDonald..

The Spanish tennis player later revealed his psoas injury and has not returned to a tournament since mid-January, despite having started training on the track for a long time.

Nadal missed the United States tour, the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Miami, and the black season, including the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo, the Conde de Godó tournament in Barcelona, ​​the Masters 1000 in Madrid and one. Rome.

His last resignation was the most painful for him. On May 18, he announced that his injury prevented him from leaving. Roland Garros, The tournament he won fourteen times and took place in the French capital until 11 June.

“The development of my injury in Australia did not go the way I wanted.. I lost goals along the way and Roland Garros became impossible. I will not be at Roland Garros right now. You can imagine how difficult this tournament was for me. “I have no intention of continuing to play for the next few months,” Nadal said at his Academy in Manacor the day he announced his retirement from the Paris tournament.

This week, 22 Grand Slam winners traveled to Greece to visit and get to know the Rafa Nadal Tennis Center in the tourist resort of Sani on the Halkidikim peninsula. He said that he took a break and will go on the tracks again in 2024.