The Spaniard was eliminated in the second round of the Australian Open: The Spaniard lost to Mackenzie McDonald (USA) 4: 6, 4: 6, 5: 7 due to a hip injury.
For Nadal it is the earliest out in Melbourne since 2016. He lost seven of his recent nine singles, which happened to him in 2003/2004. He had hip problems before: “But it wasn’t a big problem. Now I feel like I can’t move.” During a medical break, wife Maria Francisca Perello had tears in her eyes. He was “tired” and “frustrated” that the return of injuries is such a big part of his tennis career: “I can’t say I’m not mentally destroyed at the moment, because then I would be lying.”
Nadal has been suffering from foot pain for years. That’s why he thought about resigning. “Most days I was sad, I had lost the joy of playing tennis. That’s why I thought I had to retire,” he recently told the Spanish newspaper “Marca”.
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