(Madrid) Spaniard Rafael Nadal suffers from a seven millimeter abdominal tear, but still wants to play his Wimbledon semi-final against Australian Nick Kyrgios on Friday, the Spanish daily reported on Thursday. brand.
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Spaniard, 4e and double winner (2008 and 2010) of the London tournament, passed exams Thursday morning after his difficult success the day before in the quarter-final against the American Taylor Fritz 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7- 5, 7-6 (10/4).
“I don’t know”, he replied after the match when the journalists asked him if he would be able to face Kyrgios (40e).
brand recalls that this is not the first time that Nadal has had to play under these conditions: in 2009, at the United States Open, he played the tournament with a two-centimeter long tear and lost against the ‘Argentinian Juan Martin del Potro in the semi-finals.