PARIS —
The training was set for 5 p.m. local time . It would give him a chance to reacquaint himself with Court Philippe Chatrier's red clay — he hasn't played a match there in two years — and test his fitness.He is still regaining his match readiness after missing nearly all of 2023 with a hip injury that required surgery, and much of this season because of problems with a hip muscle and an abdominal muscle.
“Let’s see what’s going on, how I feel myself mentally tomorrow, after tomorrow, and in one week,” Nadal said last week at the Italian Open. “If I feel ready, I going to try to be there and fight for the things that I have been fighting the last 15 years, if now seems impossible.”