{"id":17428,"date":"2022-06-06T01:37:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=226915"},"modified":"2022-06-06T01:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T20:07:30","slug":"rafael-nadal-still-hopes-to-play-wimbledon-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-still-hopes-to-play-wimbledon-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal still hopes to play Wimbledon this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal is still hoping to play this year\u2019s Wimbledon championship which is just three weeks away. The Spaniard was expected to skip this year\u2019s grass session following his foot problems and told he will be having a break after the Roland Garros final.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, after today\u2019s historical win, where he clinched the record-extending 14th Roland Garros title and 22nd Grand Slam defeating Casper Ruud in straight sets told that he will be trying some treatment to reduce his foot pain and hopes he can be fit enough to participate in this year\u2019s Wimbledon.\u201d I\u2019m going to be at Wimbledon if my body is ready to be at Wimbledon\u2026..nobody wants to miss Wimbledon,\u201d said Nadal as reported by tennis reporter Christopher Clarey.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal has been struggling with his foot and complained about the struggles several times during his 2022 tennis season. He also missed majors and multiple events previous gear following the foot disturbances. The legendary player was seen limping during his campaign in Italy Rome. It was a major concern if he will be able to make it as he was injured just ahead of the major clay tournament. Nadal did wonders despite the injury and won his 22nd major to prove why he is called the \u201cKing of Clay\u201d. But the player doesn\u2019t want to risk it and is expected to have some rest. The player will be back for the third Grand Slam if his foot allows to.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadal has been struggling with foot injuries and is expected to have rest after the French Open final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[688,3314,336,1963,3316,250],"class_list":["post-17428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open","tag-french-open-2022","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roland-garros","tag-roland-garros-2022","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428","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=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}