{"id":295690,"date":"2023-12-01T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=295690"},"modified":"2023-12-01T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:24:10","slug":"rafael-nadal-announces-return-to-tennis-after-a-year-off-the-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-announces-return-to-tennis-after-a-year-off-the-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal announces return to tennis after a year off the circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Rafael Nadal confirms RETURN to tennis after a year off the circuit as the former world No.1 reveals in new video he will head to Brisbane for the first week of the season<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Rafael Nadal has confirmed his return from injury after a year out of tennis<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The former world No. 1 will head to Brisbane for the first week of the season<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>The Spaniard was absent for a spell due to a hip injury which required surgery<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rafael Nadal has returned his return to the tennis court after nearly a year out will be in Brisbane for the first week of the 2024 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former world No. 1 last played at the Australian Open, where he exited the slam prematurely as a result of a hip injury which required surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old subsequently sat out the rest of the 2023 campaign, and fell out of the top 100 for the first time in two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, on Friday, Nadal released a video to social media\u00a0which confirmed that he is returning to the sport by heading to Brisbane for the first week of the new season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nadal said: &#8216;After one year outside of the tour, I think it&#8217;s the right moment to be back. So I feel ready to announce that I will be back in Brisbane the first week of the season.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/19\/78483223-12815499-image-m-13_1701457509821.jpg\" height=\"885\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal confirmed his return to tennis by announcing he will play in Brisbane next season<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/19\/78483227-12815499-image-m-15_1701457599376.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>The video also features a section of a press conference, in which Nadal said: &#8216;I think I don&#8217;t deserve to end like this. I believe I have worked hard all my sport life so that my end isn&#8217;t here at a press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am going to work hard to finish my career in the right way.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane is one of the warm-up tournaments ahead of the Australian Open, which starts in late January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-time grand slam champion underwent a procedure on his left hip in May, after surrendering in his battle to get ready for the French Open and Wimbledon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May, he revealed in a press conference that he envisaged 2024 being a farewell tour after repeated injury troubles, and hoped to play at the tournaments that have meant the most to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The French Open would feature highly on Nadal&#8217;s list of important tournaments, following his record 14 titles at Roland-Garros, which will also host the Olympic tennis event during the Olympics next summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nadal won the Brisbane International in 2009 and 2022, and will take part in the next edition, which will be held between December 31 and January 7, and finishes a week before the start of the Australian Open, the first slam of the calendar year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In October, Nadal&#8217;s team rejected\u00a0claims by the Australian Open&#8217;s tournament chief Craig Tiley\u00a0that the Spaniard was to return to action at the Grand Slam in January.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/19\/78483225-12815499-image-m-17_1701457706726.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>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12815499\/Rafael-Nadal-confirms-RETURN-tennis-year-circuit-former-world-No-1-reveals-new-video-head-Brisbane-week-season.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal confirms RETURN to tennis after a year off the circuit as the former world No.1 reveals in new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295689,"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 - 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