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The Spanish will return to play an official match four months after suffering a left foot injury in the Washington Tournament.

Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal has stated that the Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament will be “a test” for him, and that he has decided to return to the courts after four months of his last official match due to a left foot injury because “the process recovery is going well ”.

Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal has stated that he will return to the courts after four months since his last official match due to a left foot injury and will do so at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship, an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi.

“Things are going better than before, otherwise I would not have considered going back to Abu Dhabi. What will happen from now on? I don’t know. Abu Dhabi is a test for me, and I am determined to be there ”, Nadal assured.

The Mubadala World Tennis Championship 2021 will be held between December 16 and 18 in the capital of the homonymous emirate and the Mallorcan tennis player will face the winner of the match between British Andy Murray and Austrian Dominic Thiem.

Regarding the injury that has prevented him from playing since last August in the Washington Tournament – he was eliminated by the South African Lloyd Harris – the winner of 20 Grand Slams titles, He explains that he “follows all the doctors’ instructions” in his recovery process.

“I am being obedient and I do what they tell me. We will not know how the foot is until we increase the load and test ourselves at the highest level ”.

Nadal received this Wednesday the Cope Mallorca Popular Award for “a career that has made him one of the best athletes in the country and the greatest ambassador of the island of Mallorca”.

Last October, the Balearic athlete was named adoptive son of Sant LLorenç des Cardessar for turning to help the residents of that Mallorcan municipality after the tragic flood of 2018 that resulted in 13 deaths. (D)

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