{"id":482967,"date":"2024-05-11T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482967"},"modified":"2024-05-11T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:44:26","slug":"rafael-nadal-is-not-sure-on-french-open-participation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rafael-nadal-is-not-sure-on-french-open-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal is not sure on French Open participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal is uncertain regarding his participation in the French Open following his straight-sets defeat by seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz at the Rome Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Hurkacz&#8217;s decisive victory over Nadal, ending the Spaniard&#8217;s longstanding dominance at the tournament, has left the 37-year-old contemplating his next move. Despite battling through a three-set win in the previous round, Nadal succumbed to Hurkacz in a match lasting 93 minutes, as he faced multiple breaks before being defeated.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal&#8217;s recent struggles, compounded by ongoing physical issues stemming from past injuries, have cast doubt on his readiness for the French Open, an event he has triumphed in a record 14 times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rafa Nadal says he doesn\u2019t feel ready to compete at Roland Garros, but he\u2019s going to do everything possible to change that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to make a decision yet. There are two possible paths. I think I am not prepared to compete at Roland Garros because of what I have done\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5EMYTWlElF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5EMYTWlElF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1789287353938575791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see today on the court how difficult is,&#8221; Nadal told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably one is to say, &#8216;Okay, I&#8217;m not ready, I&#8217;m not playing well&#8217;. Then it&#8217;s the moment to take a decision in terms of not playing Roland Garros. Another is accept how I am today and work the proper way to try to be in a different way in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision, as you can imagine, is not clear in my mind today. But if I have to say what&#8217;s my feeling and if my mind is closer one way or the other way, I&#8217;m going to say &#8216;Be in Roland Garros and try my best&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Physically, I have some issues, but not probably yet enough to say not playing in the most important event of my tennis career.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal is uncertain regarding his participation in the French Open following his straight-sets defeat by seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz at the Rome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":482968,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19432,17409],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19433,6274,767],"acf":{"announce":"The all-time record champion in Paris is struggling physically ahead of the tournament in the French capital","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\/482967"}],"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=482967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482969,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482967\/revisions\/482969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482967"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482967"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}