The Spaniard wanted to test his wrist and shoulder after 14 days of inactivity · Complete two light sessions without discomfort in the hamstring · Babolat is the mark of Roland Garros balls, replacing the Dunlop, which has the remaining tournaments on clay
On Wednesday February 9, a day after the presentation of the Barcelona Open, and when he had exactly 14 days after the rupture of two centimeters in the hamstring of the left leg, Rafael Nadal returned to training at the Center for Modernization of Manacor. After the visit on Tuesday to Dr. Angel Ruiz Cotorro in Barcelona, the world's No. 1 received a medical discharge. The ultrasound showed the tennis was that the lesion was healed.
Nadal returned to the preparatory meetings ahead of time so as not to further lengthen the inactivity in areas like the wrist and shoulder then suffer in the return to racing, which for Tennis will be from 4 to 6 March, during a best of five sets in the first round of Davis Cup tie against Belgium in Charleroi.
The Spaniard will catch a flight on the same Sunday 6 to the completion of the series, headed for Portland, where he will join Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams for the opening of a pavilion built by Nike at the University of Eugene. Federer, Nadal and Sharapova will move then to Indian Wells, location Masters of the first 1,000. Serena will have less of a hurry, that waiver to play the tournament since 2001 when she and her sister Venus were treated, according to them, in a racist manner by the fans.
Babolat by Dunlop
After the Dunlop brand last year achieved the unprecedented unify a same ball for the whole land tour, including Roland Garros, the three 1000 Masters on clay, Monte Carlo, Rome and Madrid, the Barcelona Open 500 and 250, Estoril, the second 'Grand Slam' of the year has broken again, the deck. Dunlop ended contract with the French Open and the leaders of the Federation gala have opted for a company in the country, Babolat, to be supplying the balls for the next five years.
For Nadal, Roland Garros and five-time champion of the crown, in the year that seek to reach the six gimped of Bjorn Borg, the change "will not affect it is the last tournament the clay season. The problem would be if it were in the middle. We traveled to Paris a week before the tournament and enough time to adapt, "he explains.