{"id":229758,"date":"2023-12-02T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=229758"},"modified":"2023-12-02T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:33:05","slug":"rafael-nadal-to-return-to-playing-at-brisbane-international-in-january-after-being-out-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/rafael-nadal-to-return-to-playing-at-brisbane-international-in-january-after-being-out-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal to return to playing at Brisbane International in January after being out for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MADRID, 1 Dec: Rafael Nadal will return to playing at the Brisbane International in Australia in January, the 22-time Grand Slam champion said Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter a year of not competing, it is time to come back,\u201d Nadal said in a video posted on social media. \u201cIt will be in Brisbane in the first week of January. See you there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 37-year-old Spaniard has not played on tour since last January, when he hurt his hip flexor during a loss in the second round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May, a little more than a week before the start of the French Open, Nadal announced that he would miss the tournament he\u2019s won a record 14 times and wasn\u2019t exactly sure when he might return to play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nadal had said then that he hoped to compete in 2024, which he expected to be his final season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou never know how things will turn out,\u201d Nadal said at a news conference at the time, \u201cbut my intention is that next year will be my last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wound up having arthroscopic surgery in June in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dating to the end of 2022, the Spanish left-hander has lost seven of his past nine matches, including going 1-3 this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nadal\u2019s 22 Grand Slam singles titles rank second to Novak Djokovic\u2019s 24 for the most among men. (AP)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID, 1 Dec: Rafael Nadal will return to playing at the Brisbane International in Australia in January, the 22-time Grand Slam champion said Friday. \u201cAfter a year of not competing, it is time to come back,\u201d Nadal said in a video posted on social media. \u201cIt will be in Brisbane in the first week of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}