Rafael Nadal, victorious for the 14th time at Roland-Garros, assured this Friday that he "intended to try to play" at the Wimbledon tournament which begins on June 27, when a new treatment relieved his pain on the left foot.
The Spanish tennis player was facing the press on his island of Mallorca, in the Balearic archipelago, where he carried out his first grass training sessions on Monday.
"This week of training tells me that there may be possibilities," added Nadal, who will travel to London on Monday to train and play some exhibition matches.
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Nadal has suffered for years from MĂŒller-Weiss syndrome, a degenerative and incurable disease which is characterized by the deformation of one of the bones of the foot.
The player with 22 Grand Slam titles has revealed he had to play Roland-Garros with an anesthetized foot, but was not ready to repeat the experience at Wimbledon, a tournament he won twice , in 2008 and 2010, and in which he did not participate in 2021.
He began two days after his triumph at Roland-Garros a "pulsed radiofrequency treatment (PRF) which numbs the nerves in the region of the injury from which he suffers", in the words of his spokesperson.
The player said this Friday to note the âchangesâ induced by this treatment.
"I haven't limped for a week.
I'm happy, he said.
It reduced the pain that prevented me from pressing my foot.
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