{"id":298653,"date":"2023-12-07T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=298653"},"modified":"2023-12-07T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T19:24:09","slug":"rafael-nadal-appears-to-change-his-plans-on-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-appears-to-change-his-plans-on-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal appears to change his plans on retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Rafael Nadal appears to change his plans on retirement by insisting it &#8216;makes no sense&#8217; to set a deadline for the end of his career<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rafael Nadal has been out of action for almost a year due to injury\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 22-time Grand Slam champion is set to return in Brisbane next month<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 37-year-old had previously suggested he would retire at the end of 2024\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rafael Nadal has appeared to change his plans on retirement by insisting it &#8216;makes no sense&#8217; to set a deadline for the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-time Grand Slam champion will make his return from a near year-long injury absence at the Australian Open warm-up event in Brisbane next month.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old had previously suggested he would retire at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But in a video posted on his social media on Thursday, Nadal provided an update on plans to hang up his raquet.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;There&#8217;s every chance that it&#8217;s going to be my last year and I&#8217;m going to enjoy the tournaments in that way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/18\/78705517-0-image-a-30_1701975172878.jpg\" height=\"759\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal said he could not confirm that 2024 would be his final season before retirement<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/18\/78483227-0-The_Spaniard_has_been_working_to_return_after_nearly_a_year_out_-a-27_1701975057440.jpg\" height=\"676\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has been working to return after nearly a year out of the sport with a hip injury<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/18\/78483225-0-The_22_time_Grand_Slam_champion_last_played_at_the_Australian_Op-a-28_1701975064175.jpg\" height=\"692\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 22-time Grand Slam champion last played at the Australian Open at the start of 2023<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t want to announce it because in the end I don&#8217;t know what can happen and I have to give myself the opportunity not to say one thing as then I&#8217;ll be a slave to what I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think it&#8217;s going to be like that but I can&#8217;t be 100 percent sure because in the end I&#8217;ve worked a lot to come back to compete and if suddenly things and my physique allow me to continue and enjoy what I do, why am I going to set a deadline?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think it makes no sense.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Nadal was named on the entry list for the Australian Open earlier on Thursday ahead of the start of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year on January 14.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has not played since a second-round loss to American MacKenzie McDonald at Melbourne Park 11 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>He twice needed surgery after struggling with a hip injury and has slipped to 664th in the world rankings while sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12838935\/Rafael-Nadal-appears-change-plans-retirement-insisting-makes-no-sense-set-deadline-end-career.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal appears to change his plans on retirement by insisting it &#8216;makes no sense&#8217; to set a deadline for the end of his career Rafael Nadal has been out of action for almost a year due to injury\u00a0 The 22-time Grand Slam champion is set to return in Brisbane next month The 37-year-old had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rafael Nadal appears to change his plans on retirement - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-appears-to-change-his-plans-on-retirement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rafael Nadal appears to change his plans on retirement - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rafael Nadal appears to change his plans on retirement by insisting it &#8216;makes no sense&#8217; 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