{"id":293739,"date":"2023-10-20T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=293739"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:58","slug":"nadal-issues-direct-response-to-australian-open-boss-after-daring-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/tennis\/nadal-issues-direct-response-to-australian-open-boss-after-daring-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal issues direct response to Australian Open boss after ‘daring’ announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rafael Nadal claimed that the Australian Open tournament director made things \u201cvery complicated\u201d by announcing that he would be making his comeback in January. Craig Tiley recently revealed that Nadal had set his return for the first Grand Slam of the season but the Spaniard and his team later shut his claims down and said the 37-year-old had no guaranteed comeback date set in stone.<\/p>\n

Nadal has been sidelined since this year\u2019s Australian Open back in January. The defending champion at the time, he picked up a left psoas injury during his second-round defeat to Mackenzie McDonald. After a failed attempt at returning for the clay season, Nadal announced in May that he was ending his season. In June, he underwent arthroscopic surgery.<\/p>\n

The 22-time Grand Slam champion is now training in hope of making a return in 2024, which could potentially be the final season of his tennis career. Nadal\u2019s comeback seemed to be set in stone when the Australian Open boss claimed he had spoken to the Spaniard.<\/p>\n

Nadal later confirmed that this was not true, and he has now issued a response to Tiley. \u201cYes, it was a bit daring,\u201d the Spaniard told AS. \u201cI have a very good relationship with him and I understand his excitement and also that of the Australian Open, which is surely less than the excitement I have about going there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the two-time Australian Open winner was eager to be ready in time for a return to Melbourne, he said it was way too soon to commit. Nadal continued: \u201cBut from there to saying that I am going to be at the Australian Open seems very complicated to say today. In fact I don’t know and I’m working to try to recover.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, my way of understanding my moment is that I do not need dates, but rather I need to simply work day by day with enthusiasm and with the right mentality to try to recover.\u201d Nadal went on to explain why he didn\u2019t want to give a definitive comeback date.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I set dates and I don’t keep them, I add disappointments that I don’t need, because I have already had enough disappointments at a sporting and physical level in recent times,\u201d he added. \u201cSo I don’t need to set any dates; I’m doing my day-to-day life and I’m honestly improving. I’m better now than I was a month ago and I hope in a month and a half I’ll be able to say something: I’m going there or I’m going there.\u201d<\/p>\n