RAFAEL NADAL IS recovering at home after he underwent treatment on his injured left foot on Tuesday, as the French Open champion battles to be fit for Wimbledon.
Nadal has returned to his house in Mallorca, less than three weeks before the start of Wimbledon on June 27.
The 36-year-old said his foot was “asleep” due to injections during his victory over Casper Ruud in the final at Roland Garros on Sunday, a win that secured Nadal his 22nd Grand Slam title.
Nadal then travelled to Barcelona to begin “pulsed radiofrequency stimulation” treatment, a spokesman for the Spaniard said on Wednesday, which is aimed at reducing nerve pain.
The treatment means the nerves around the area of Nadal’s injury will be “temporarily numb”.
“Rafa is already at home and will spend three or four days doing normal, maintaining, physical activity. Depending on the effect of the treatment, and as long as it’s positive, he will later return to training on the court,” the spokesman said.
“We don’t rule out a second treatment being carried out in the next week.”
Nadal has for years suffered from a problem in his foot called Muller-Weiss syndrome, a rare and degenerative condition affecting bones in the feet.
“I will be there if my body allows it. Wimbledon is a priority, the Grand Slams are a priority,” Nadal said on Sunday, when asked about Wimbledon.
“Playing it with anti-inflammatories, yes; with anaesthesia injections, no.”
Easily the worst Arsenal team of Wenger’s tenure. Without Van Persie they would be in the bottom half of the league. Players like Rosicky and Mertesacker are a joke and Henry’s return was never going to paper over the huge cracks.
Oh dear. R.I.P Arsenal. Shocking performance.
so depressing as a gooner. ten of the squad need to go. chamakh, bentner, rosicky, arshavin, diaby, ramsey, walcott, djouru, almunia and gibbs. not sure about mertesacker either. wenger has a huge mountain to climb; if he is even the man to do the climbing.
Boating back to haunt Arsenal.
Rosicky,s shot at goal … 15 meters out from goal and he nearly hits the corner flag as it goes out for a throw
that’s all he ever does tbh
Van Persie will go. Arsenal jinxed by injury. Ramsy consistently making loads of unforced errors, and Wilshire back out injured before he even returned from injury. What mysterious calf/hamstring reason is keeping Diaby out?
actually forgot about our phantom from the east, park. why did we buy him?
Park is a loss-leader, he’ll sell jerseys in Asia
Surely there must be something they are doing in training that is causing these injuries. Lots of teams get a lot of injuries, like United for the first half of the season for example, but not every year as seems to be the case at Arsenal.
That tool is on.
“live from the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.” It`s San Siro for every Milan supporters.