{"id":435531,"date":"2023-05-14T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435531"},"modified":"2023-05-14T08:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T12:11:40","slug":"nadal-refuses-another-tournament-roland-garros-chances-fade-away","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nadal-refuses-another-tournament-roland-garros-chances-fade-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal refuses another tournament, Roland Garros chances fade away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal has turned down a wildcard offer for next week&#8217;s Challenger tournament in Bordeaux as the Spaniard&#8217;s participation in the French Open hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal has been struggling with a hip injury since January at the Australian Open, and fears the Spaniard may miss the Paris Grand Slam grew after he pulled out of this week&#8217;s Italian Open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I offered him (Nadal&#8217;s agent Carlos Costa) one of the wildcards. He very kindly told me that Nadal was continuing his preparation at home in Manacor, that he was not ready and was in a race against time to be ready for the French Open,&#8221; Jean-Baptiste Perlant told French sports daily L&#8217;Equipe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RafaelNadal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RafaelNadal<\/a> has turned down a wildcard offer for next week&#8217;s Challenger <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tournament?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#tournament<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bordeaux?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bordeaux<\/a> as the Spaniard&#8217;s participation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FrenchOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FrenchOpen<\/a> hangs in the balance, the claycourt event director said on Sunday.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ROGwEnFhYj\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ROGwEnFhYj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LBCI Lebanon English (@LBCI_News_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBCI_News_EN\/status\/1657707111864836096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nadal skipped last week&#8217;s Madrid Open and missed tournaments at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal has turned down a wildcard offer for next week&#8217;s Challenger tournament in Bordeaux as the Spaniard&#8217;s participation in the French Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":173285,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17409,19055],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[6274,767],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard was hoping to return in Paris, but it looks more and more unlikely","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435531"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435531"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}