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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.

"I am very happy to have experienced everything I have lived until today. So, like the positive moments of last year I took them in stride, I must accept the moment that there have been so good"

Rafa Nadal, world number one tennis and winner of the international Laureus sportsman of 2010, noted that this season would be content to achieve "much less" than last year, which won three Grand Slam tournaments, etc. titles.

While Nadal has had a similar start to the season of 2010, when it was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Australia Open tournament and left the injured, the Spanish tennis player said, "sign a lot less than what was achieved last year."

"What sign is to continue working day by day and enjoying what I do, which to me is very nice. I am very happy to have experienced everything I have lived until today. So, like the positive moments Last year I took them in stride, I must accept the moment that there have been so good, "he said.

"I've had some bad luck earlier in the year and I accept with the same calm, knowing that this is part of the sport and see what happens between now and the end of the year," he continued.

Of the injury that occurred in Australia, a hamstring in his left leg adductor, Nadal said he's very soon recovered and re- training.

"The recovery is perfect. I can not say more positive things. In the end, in recent tests, we saw that it is less serious than it seemed at first so I'm very happy. If you start to train the Thursday, I'll do it next Monday, so it's all very advanced, "he said.

Again in the Davis

The reappearance of the world's number one competition is planned for the Davis Cup tie played against Spain Belgium from 4 to 6 March in Charleroi, a tournament that last year the team led by Albert Costa fell to France by a resounding 5-0, having won the title the previous two years.

Nadal, who could not participate in the elimination of some physical discomfort, said the heavy defeat does not mean that this year there are spirits of revenge on the Spanish team.

"In the desire Davis are the same as always, do not change because of what happened last year. I do not believe in revenge or anything like that. Last year France was at a very high level and be accepted. We had won two consecutive years and is very complicated, "he said.

About the award itself, Nadal said: "This award is the award for work, not just of 2010 but of life. It's a dream come true complete the circle in this way, I'll keep it in memory because it is difficult to repeat and now forget 2010 and start think in 2011, "he said.

The current number one tennis said the Laureus "are the most prestigious awards in the sports world and is therefore not one more, because as competition got the best in the world of individual sports. For me it is a satisfaction enormous that the best athletes in history have been chosen as the best athlete of 2010. "

The tennis star said he is recovering from right knee injury and feels "with morals" for future tournaments.

Rafael Nadal, third in the world rankings after Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, resumed training on Monday in his hometown of Manacor after overcoming a bruised right knee "with much enthusiasm and desire," according to the media.

Nadal has been exercised in the ski soft Manacor under the watchful eye of his uncle and coach Toni Nadal. "I have taken these two weeks to fitness in the gym, not running, and I feel fine, ready to play," said Nadal, who is scheduled to reappear in the Indians Wells tournament in March. The tennis player feels "to moral" to tackle the next tournament and said the injury "went well" following "any evidence".

Nadal was injured when contesting the quarter-finals Open past Australia against Britain's Andy Murray, who dominated him 6-3, 7-6 and 1-0 as severe pain in his right knee forced him to retire.

Rafael Nadal was appointed ambassador yesterday Quely Inca (family business since 1853 crackers) for its international projection, and talked about his offseason work, in which he says have not rested, and the demanding schedule that is hurting both professional tennis players.

Rafael Nadal was appointed ambassador yesterday Quely Inca (family business since 1853 crackers) for its international projection, and talked about his offseason work, which says have not rested, and the demanding schedule that is hurting both professional tennis players.

The world No. 2 said in very strong on his return to work after achieving Davis Cup: "I'm training for some time that, say I have not really stopped working because this year there was no possibility to stop." The day after being received in Madrid with the rest of the Davis Cup team for the Prime Minister, the Spaniard preparation started. "I'm happy with the work we are doing in the face of the new season." Nadal, who next day 29 will travel to Abu Dhabi to play an exhibition tournament, will start the season in January with the aim of defending the title this year's Australia Open achieved almost twelve months.

Rafa had an impact on how hard it is on schedule, on which says they are working diligently to find solutions: "The players and the ATP to has a new address since last year, is working hard to try to establish a pattern more pronounced for players to have a little more flexibility and relaxation. Especially at the end of the year so that no matter what has happened to those who have played the final of the Davis Cup, and you just do not have time to rest. "Nadal stresses:" We will succeed and if not for our generation, it is for the following. We have a schedule that forces you to play since the first week of January until December, making it very difficult to score goals ".

Rafa speaks well of his season plans: "I've worked hard since my return from injury to play in Australia, then in Rotterdam and then have three weeks off. We must seize these few weeks to rest and prepare."