Injuries left the Spaniard out of action at the start of the year. On March 20, his departure from the group of the ten best tennis players in the ranking will take place.
The date on which Rafael Nadal will leave the top ten has been confirmed. A stage which frames the complex moment that the Spaniard is experiencing due to injuries and which also puts an end to the longest record that a player in this select group has had.
The date will be March 20, once the Spaniard loses the points he earned for reaching the final of the Indian Wells tournament in 2022. His loss from the Californian desert, in addition to the units he has lost for not being able to defend the Acapulco or Australian Open title , they ended up excluding the Spaniard from the ATP top ten group for the first time in 17 years. The first time he did it was April 25, 2005 when he won the ATP 500 in Barcelona aged just 19.
But this scenario does not come exclusively from the sports results of the 22nd Grand Slam champion, since it is largely the injuries that take “Rafa” out of the top ten. An iliopsoas injury to his left leg plagued him in Melbourne and hasn’t played since. In the second half of last year, he couldn’t play much either due to an abdominal injury which only allowed him to return for the last two events of the season.
Despite the fact that Nadal is already trained, he was clear that he will not be able to participate in the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Miami, thus extending his return to the courts for the clay court tour. There he could return to the Top Ten, but it’s a mix between speculation and past accomplishments. The orange dust has always been the best stage of the year for the Spaniard, who throughout his career has conquered fourteen times Roland Garros, eleven times Monte Carlo, ten times Rome and twelve times Barcelona in this calendar period.
Thus ends a period that placed him among the ten best in the world for 912 weeks and during which he developed his career almost entirely. No one in history has managed to spend that long consecutively in the top ten. Another record for a Nadal that becomes more historic every day.
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