{"id":17329,"date":"2022-03-22T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=206052"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:09:14","slug":"rafael-nadal-out-for-4-6-weeks-following-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-out-for-4-6-weeks-following-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal out for 4-6 weeks following injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal is sidelined again with 4-6 weeks following a \u201cstress injury to his rib\u201d that the Spaniard suffered during the semifinal of the BNP Paribas Open, as quoted by\u00a0<em>Racquet Magazine\u00a0<\/em>senior editor Ben Rothenberg, reported\u00a0<em>MARCA.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nadal had complained about pain during his match against Reilly Opelka at the Indian Wells quarterfinals the second set, and it was anticipated that the 35-year-old will face problems later on. The 21-time Grand Slam champion then reached the final of the tournament defeating Carlos Alcaraz and lost to Taylor Fritz in the battle of title.<\/p>\n<p>Rafa had missed majors including Tokyo Olympics 2020 previous year following injuries. He was then sidelined for four months because of a foot injury before he made a tremendous comeback to the 2022 tennis season with a title at the ATP Cup Summer Set. Nadal then clinched the historical first Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne followed by a trophy at Mexican Open as well. Following his incredible run in the 2022 season, he moved up to No. 3 in ATP rankings replacing Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish professional won three trophies in 2022 reaching the final of the Indian Wells Masters extending his winning streak to 20 matches. World No. 3 Nadal had withdrawn from the ongoing tournament Miami Open and is expected to be available for his favourite Grand Slam, French Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his tremendous run in the 2022 tennis season, Nadal moved up to No. 3 in ATP rankings replacing Alexander Zverev. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2668,2815,336,3241],"class_list":["post-17329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-indian-wells-masters","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-taylor-fritz"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}