Rafa Nadal: “I continue on my way and I don’t know when I will play again. If I knew, I would say.”

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal winner of 22 titles grand slams next to Serbian Novak Djokovic, avoided this Monday, just before participating in the awards ceremony of the Foundation that bears his name, confirming his participation in the ATP 1000 tournament in Monte Carlo. “I don’t know when I will play again, that’s the truth,” he said.

“I don’t know where that information comes from, but obviously, if it were true, I would confirm it, but unfortunately I can’t,” Nadal told reporters. «I’m following my course and I don’t know when I’ll play again, that’s the truth. I am in the phase of increasing my work. If I knew when I would return, I would say, but I don’t know,” he added.

“We have to go one day at a time and I will not advance something that I will not be able to fulfill later; I will say things when I really know them,” noted the Spaniard, who assured that he is “in a phase of increased work” to return to the courts in the clay season. Nadal’s reappearance in Monaco was confirmed by David Massey, director of the Monegasque tournament. , March 17.

Nadal returned to training on the slopes of his academy in Manacor (Mallorca) after suffering an iliopsoas injury on January 18 in a match against American Mackenzie McDonald in the second round of the tournament in Melbourne.

This Monday, at “Es Baluard, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma”, the Balearic athlete, Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO Deputy Director-General for Social Sciences, and José María Álvarez-Pallete, President of Telefónica, led the award ceremony for Rafael Nadal Foundation.

The awards recognized the best social projects and initiatives, divided into five categories: Development cooperation: Kirira Foundation; Sports: Casal dels Infants; Education: El Arca Association; Social Innovation: Moms in Action and Health and Wellbeing: What Really Matters.