“Rafael Nadal to Miss Roland Garros 2021: First Time in 18 Seasons”

Rafael Nadal has not been able to recover in time to play at Roland Garros, something that he may announce for this Wednesday, May 18 at 8:00 in the morning in Venezuela and 4:00 in the afternoon in Venezuela.

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The French tournament has seen Nadal win 14 times since his debut in 2005, including last year, he is left without his great champion. It will be the first time in 18 seasons that the Balearic tennis player misses the appointment with the French ‘Grand Slam’, from which he was absent in 2016, already in the middle of the competition, after suffering a break in his left wrist. That deprived him of jumping to play the third round against his compatriot Marcel Granollers.

119 days have passed since Nadal’s last official match in the second round of the Australian Open. Nadal remains with 445 points in the ATP ranking, which moves him out of the world ‘top100’, more specifically beyond position 130. This circumstance has not occurred since the week of March 24, 2003.

In this way, at the conclusion of Wimbledon, if he is finally fit to play, he will need invitations to enter the draws. Although that is not the problem because he will not lack ‘wild cards’ just as Roger Federer did not lack at the time of saying enough was enough because of the knee.