After pulling out of the final day of the 2019 Laver Cup on Sunday, Rafael Nadal tells reporters that he should be good to go for the rest of the seson.
Is the injury going to make him miss any events, the Spaniard was asked?
“I don't think so,” Nadal said. “[It] is not my wrist, by the way; [It] Is my hand. The hand is a little bit inflamed after New York. I had a little bit an issue in New York, and then of course probably after the final, the body goes down a little bit. So I felt a little bit the first day here. Then a little bit more every day.”
Nadal said he tried to rehabilitate the hand ahead of play on Sunday but realized that the issue would not go away so fast.
“I will not be at my 100 percent,” he said. “And without being at my 100 percent, there are other guys that are better than me, honestly. So the best decision for the team is that we made what we made.” Nadal says he hopes that he can play his planned schedule for the rest of the season, and he believes that will be possible.
“I really believe and hope that this problem will not change my personal calendar or my personal goals.”