Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the ABN AMRO World in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, next week, due to back pain which bothered him at the Australian Open.
Posted on February 25, 2021 at 10:19 a.m.
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The 20-tournament Grand Slam champion made the announcement on social media.
After finding a temporary solution that allowed him to play the second week in Melbourne, where he lost in the quarterfinals, Nadal consulted his doctors on his return to Spain. Together with his team, they advised him to skip next week’s tournament.
Ranked second in the world, Nadal would have been the favorite in the Rotterdam tournament. Rather it is Daniil Medvedev, nThe 3 and finalist ahead of Novak Djokovic in Australia, who will be.
If Medvedev reaches the final of the tournament, he will replace Nadal in second place in the world. He would become the first tennis player not named Nadal, Djokovic, Roger Federer or Andy Murray to occupy the second place in the world since Lleyton Hewitt followed Federer in the standings in July 2005.
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