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"When you are about to compete and in the last training this happens to you, obviously it affects you. It's a tough thing. It's in a muscle and not in a tendon, which would have been much worse."
"The bad thing is that he has hurt himself again in the same area and that is not usual. It does not have the same context as the first injury, but it is in the same area. Rafa was training normally and everything was on the right track. Rafa worked well and the sensations were positive, but with this second injury the situation is different. It has forced him to change his plans so now we must be even more cautious than before. "
The first tests that Nadal did revealed the same physical setback of Melbourne. A "disabling" ailment that causes a lot of pain in its acute phase. As a result, the Spaniard suffers from an inflammation that forces him to another unwanted pause. This week he will undergo another medical examination and depending on the result he will follow a more or less conservative treatment, although the non-negotiable starting point is rest.
"We have to be optimistic as we have always been, but we also have to be realistic and now, seeing what has happened, we have to be as cautious as possible. Rafa will play again when he is well."
For the first time in his entire career, Nadal will arrive in Monte Carlo with only one tournament played under his belt, so he will come short of training, with only five matches in the legs and having missed the first two M1000 (Indian Wells and Miami), something that did not happen since 2003, when he was still competing in the challenger tour events.
"We think that he will recover for the clay swing, that is the objective. The normal thing is for Rafa to take two or three weeks of rest and then have a progressive rehabilitation, but always depending on how everything goes ... It's an injury that needs to be followed closely, so let's go week by week, we're in no hurry. Medicine is not an exact science. "
https://elpais.com/deportes/2018/03/05/actualidad/1520278923_787446.html
"The bad thing is that he has hurt himself again in the same area and that is not usual. It does not have the same context as the first injury, but it is in the same area. Rafa was training normally and everything was on the right track. Rafa worked well and the sensations were positive, but with this second injury the situation is different. It has forced him to change his plans so now we must be even more cautious than before. "
The first tests that Nadal did revealed the same physical setback of Melbourne. A "disabling" ailment that causes a lot of pain in its acute phase. As a result, the Spaniard suffers from an inflammation that forces him to another unwanted pause. This week he will undergo another medical examination and depending on the result he will follow a more or less conservative treatment, although the non-negotiable starting point is rest.
"We have to be optimistic as we have always been, but we also have to be realistic and now, seeing what has happened, we have to be as cautious as possible. Rafa will play again when he is well."
For the first time in his entire career, Nadal will arrive in Monte Carlo with only one tournament played under his belt, so he will come short of training, with only five matches in the legs and having missed the first two M1000 (Indian Wells and Miami), something that did not happen since 2003, when he was still competing in the challenger tour events.
"We think that he will recover for the clay swing, that is the objective. The normal thing is for Rafa to take two or three weeks of rest and then have a progressive rehabilitation, but always depending on how everything goes ... It's an injury that needs to be followed closely, so let's go week by week, we're in no hurry. Medicine is not an exact science. "
https://elpais.com/deportes/2018/03/05/actualidad/1520278923_787446.html