Injured Rafael Nadal has supplied a touch he’ll nonetheless play French Open

Rafael Nadal has supplied encouragement that he can be able to pursue a record-extending fifteenth French Open title at Roland Garros this summer season. However, he has confirmed he’ll miss the Italian Open, which begins subsequent week in Rome, the ultimate occasion earlier than the season’s second Grand Slam.

Nadal hasn’t performed since struggling a straight-sets defeat to Mackenzie McDonald within the Australian Open second spherical in January.

During the encounter, the 36-year-old was stifled by a hip damage to the iliopsoas muscle in his left leg and later withdrew from Indian Wells.

With the clay season underway, Nadal has but to get better, taking to Instagram on Friday afternoon to verify his absence from Rome.

But he supplied a considerably constructive replace on his standing for the French Open, claiming his situation has improved in current days.

He wrote: Hello Everyone! “Sorry to announce that I won’t be able to be in Rome.

“You all understand how a lot it hurts me to overlook one other one of many tournaments which have marked my skilled and private profession due to all of the love and help of Italian followers.

“Despite having noticed an improvement these past few days, it’s been many months since I have not been able to train at a high level, and the process of readaption has its times, and I have no choice but to accept them and keep working.”

If Nadal does make the French Open, it is going to be the primary time in his illustrious profession he has entered with out competing in a earlier clay occasion on the ATP Tour that season.