Manacor, Spain: Former tennis world No.1 Rafael Nadal has returned to training at his Mallorca base after the latest in a series of knee injuries forced his withdrawal from the US Open at the end of August.
“Today was my first training session after so many weeks out. I am making progress and I hope to continue to do so,” the Spaniard said on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
The 11-time Grand Slam champion Nadal’s world ranking has fallen to fourth behind Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray, and compatriot David Ferrer is close to moving past him also.
Nadal last played at Wimbledon on June 28, when he lost to the unseeded Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic in the second round. He was unable to defend his title at the London Olympics and missed out on the US Open as well.
There was no word on when Nadal would return to competitive action, but he has said that his next target would be to get fully fit in time for the year’s first Grand Slam event – the Australian Open in the second half of January.
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