In a press release posted on social media, the world No. 4 stated he had been struggling “way more than I ought to” with a foot harm, including that the choice to finish his 2021 season was “the best way ahead to get better and get better properly.”
Nadal’s final outing on a tennis court docket was on the Citi Open in Washington DC earlier in August the place he suffered a shock loss within the spherical of 16 to South Africa’s Lloyd Harris.
The 27-year-old star stated on Wednesday that he hasn’t recovered from the harm he sustained on the Mallorca Open in June, which was the final match he performed earlier than withdrawing from Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics earlier this summer season.
Within the absence of Nadal, Federer and Thiem, the street appears to be like smoother for Djokovic as he goals to assert a memorable calendar slam — profitable all 4 grand slams in the identical calendar yr.
The Serbian, who can also be searching for a record-breaking twenty first grand slam singles title, failed in his seek for a historic golden slam in males’s tennis on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics — profitable all 4 grand slams and an Olympic gold medal in the identical 12 months — shedding within the semifinals.
If he was to win in New York, he would turn into the primary participant in males’s singles tennis to finish a calendar slam since Rod Laver did it a second time in 1969.
This yr’s US Open is scheduled to begin on August 30 and runs by way of September 12 in New York.
