Nadal withdraws from Wimbledon due to abdominal injury

the spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal announced this Thursday that he will not play his semifinal on Friday Wimbledon against the Australian Nick Kyrgios after the abdominal injury suffered last Wednesday against the American Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals.

Nadal, champion this 2022 of the Australian Open and Roland Garros, aspired to win the third ‘Grand Slam’ of the disputed course. However, after beating Fritz with difficulty and in five sets, under the threat of retirement from the second act, the injury forces him to withdraw in London.

The 22 ‘big’ champion called a press conference at the All England Tennis Club to explain your decision. “You can imagine why I’m here, I have to retire. As everyone saw yesterday, I was suffering from pain in the abdomen and I have a tear in the muscle,” said the Spanish tennis player.

“I have a torn abdominal, which I have a significant risk of worsening if I continue playing. And although I’ve been thinking about what to do all day. Here it would only do for me to win the tournament and with a torn abdominal it is impossible to win two matches at this level. In that sense, logic leads me to make this decision,” he explained.

In addition, Nadal added: “It doesn’t make sense to continue. I made the decision because that way I can’t win games. It’s not just that I can’t serve at the right speed, it’s that I can’t make the movement normally.” “There is a risk of things getting worse. I have the experience of 2009 at the US Open. I had it one size at the beginning and ended up multiplying it by eight. I have made the decision thinking about my future. A few days ago I saw my career in jeopardy because of the foot injury,” she remarked.