MADRID —
Rafael Nadal trained on grass for the first time on Monday morning, with a
light session in Mallorca raising hopes he could overcome his foot injury to
play at Wimbledon.
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Nadal performed
some gentle physical activities during a short, closed session at the Mallorca
Country Club in Santa Ponca, where the Mallorca Championships begin on Sunday.
The plan is for
Nadal to increase the intensity of his training from Tuesday until the end of
the week and the 36-year-old will then decide whether to play at Wimbledon,
which starts on June 27, depending on how his foot responds.
Nadal said his left
foot was “asleep” from injections during his victory over
Casper Ruud in the
final of the French Open on June 5, a win that secured him a record-extending
22nd Grand Slam title.
Nadal then traveled
to
Barcelona last week to begin “pulsed radiofrequency stimulation”, a
treatment aimed at reducing nerve pain.
The treatment means
the nerves around the area of Nadal’s injury were “temporarily numb”, a
spokesman for the Spaniard said.
Nadal has for years
suffered from a problem in his foot called Muller-Weiss syndrome, a rare and
degenerative condition affecting bones in the feet.
“I will be there if
my body allows it. Wimbledon is a priority, the Grand Slams are a priority,”
Nadal said at Roland Garros, when asked about Wimbledon.
“Playing it with
anti-inflammatories, yes; with anesthesia injections, no.”
Nadal has won
Wimbledon twice, in 2008 and 2010. His 22
major triumphs puts him two clear of both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in
the all-time list of male grand slam champions.
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