Nadal has won the first two Grand Slam tournaments of the year – the Australian Open and Roland Garros – for the first time in his career. It puts him halfway to achieving the calendar Grand Slam though the Spaniard has been in doubt for Wimbledon as a result of his chronic injury, and he has now shared his plans for the tournament after winning the French Open.
“I’m gonna be in Wimbledon if my body is ready to play Wimbledon,” the world No 5 confirmed. “Wimbledon is not a tournament that I want to miss, I think nobody wants to miss Wimbledon. I love Wimbledon, I had lot of success there, I lived amazing emotions there so full credit and respect to the tournament and a player like me, I am always ready to play Wimbledon.”
But the 36-year-old said he would only compete if a treatment he is set to have on his foot next week is successful in dulling the pain of his chronic injury. Nadal confessed to playing the French Open with anaesthesia injections in the nerve of his foot to stop him from feeling the pain but does not want to “do [it] again” in his career.
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