Rafa Nadal, operated on for the injury that left him out of the Australian Open in January

The tennis player Rafa Nadal underwent a “small intervention” by arthroscopy this Friday to check the left psoas injury that forced him to leave the Australian Open in January and miss all the tournaments held since then, his press team reported in a release.

Said intervention was carried out in Barcelona by doctors Marc Philippon, Jaume Vilaró and Ángel Ruiz-Cotorro and this Saturday, on the day the Spaniard turns 37, they will communicate the result and give more information about his condition.

Nadal has only completed four matches so far in 2023. He played in the United Cup and lost the two matches he played, against the British Cameron Norrie and the Australian Alex de Minaur.

Later, he went to the Australian Open and lost in the second round, injured. He beat British Jack Draper and lost to American Mackenzie McDonald.

The Spanish tennis player then announced the psoas injury and although he has started training on the court for a long time, he has not returned to a tournament since mid-January.

Nadal has missed the tour of the United States, the Masters 1,000 in Indian Wells and Miami and the land season, including the Masters 1,000 in Monte Carlo, the Conde de Godó tournament in Barcelona, the Masters 1,000 in Madrid and the one in Rome.

His last resignation was the most painful for him. On May 18, he announced that his injury prevented him from attending Roland Garros, the tournament that he has won fourteen times and which will take place until June 11 in the French capital.

“The evolution of the injury I suffered in Australia has not gone as I would have liked. I have lost objectives along the way, and Roland Garros becomes impossible. At this moment, I will not be able to be at Roland Garros. With what that tournament is for me, you can imagine how difficult it is. I have no intention of continuing to play for the next few months,” Nadal said at his Academy in Manacor the day he announced his resignation from the Parisian tournament.

This week, the winner of 22 Grand Slam titles had traveled to Greece to visit and get to know the Rafa Nadal Tennis Center located in Sani, a tourist destination located on the Halkidikim peninsula, in the first public act he has carried out after announcing that he take a break and that he will be back on the slopes in 2024.