A 22-time Major winner left that setback behind before experiencing another, feeling the pain in his abdominal muscle like at Wimbledon 2022. Not risking anything, Nadal stayed away from Doha ...

Prior to that, the 22-time Grand Slam champion missed nearly all of the 2023 season due to a hip injury, with Nadal undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his psoas muscle last June. While he has been ...

A small muscle tear—a microstrain in his left leg during his match against Jordan Thompson at the Brisbane tournament, his first event of 2024—was yet another setback for Rafael Nadal.

He repeatedly dealt with, and frequently overcame, various injury issues over the years, and his 2023 and 2024 seasons were ...

Djokovic, who suffered a leg muscle tear in his quarter-final win ... only the second male player in the Open Era after Rafael Nadal to both win and lose a Grand Slam semi-final match by retirement.

Before Brisbane, Nadal had not played since sustaining a hip psoas muscle injury at the 2023 Australian Open. The 37-year-old subsequently withdrew from the 2024 Australian Open, and has since ...