Beijing time, March 24: In recent days, many breaking news have broken out in the international tennis world. Spanish champion Nadal, who was crowned 21st Grand Slam champion at the Australian Open this year, returned to Spain for a physical examination after playing in Indian Wells for a confirmed rib stress fracture and will be on a 4-6 week suspension. The French team newspaper interviewed the country's leading sports medicine experts who believed that Nadal's continuous participation caused the fracture. Barty, who announced her retirement yesterday, has notified the WTA to remove her rankings, which also means that the women's tennis world will usher in a new world number one after the Miami Open. Let's take a look at the news from the tennis arena.
After Nadal was diagnosed with a stress fracture of the ribs, the French newspaper "Team" interviewed Alain Frey, a medical expert at the French National Institute of Physical Education, and Frey's ideas were the same as Nadal's doctors about the cause of the injury, and they all believed that excessive fatigue and continuous competition eventually led to the appearance of bone fractures: "When you continuously press the joints or participate in too many games, at some point, the bones will also be affected by cracks. Usually, this kind of injury will occur in golfers or rowers, but Nadal has a lot of mobile rotations, so there may be similar problems. ”
On the issue of treatment options, Frey said that at the beginning it was mainly rest, try not to reverse the body, as to why it takes 4-6 weeks of recovery, Frey admitted that the first need to recover the fracture of the bone: "If it is too hasty, the injury will only worsen, but there is no need for special protective measures, give enough time to recover." Nadal can practice muscle strength, but with a gentle and slow increase, he should soon be able to train on cycling, and after two or three weeks he can resume jogging, which will be a gradual recovery process overall. "As things stand, Nadal will rest and adjust in the future, and judging by the current ATP schedule, Nadal's comeback is likely to be at the Madrid Masters in early May, with a return at the latest at the Masters in Rome if he were to compete in the French Open. Nadal has repeatedly staged the miracle of returning from injury to win the championship, and I believe that he is still okay at the age of 36.
Yesterday morning Beijing time, Australian tennis player Barty announced the news of his retirement through social media. More news came out today that, for reasons that last year's Billy Jane Gold Cup (formerly the Confederations Cup), the Russian Tennis Association, which was automatically qualified for this year's finals, was stripped away. The position of the Russian Tennis Federation was won by the highest-ranked team that lost in the semi-finals last year, namely Australia. As a result, Australia did not have to participate in the qualifiers on April 15 and 16. The showdown was supposed to take place at Australian home in Brisbane, which happened to be Barty's hometown. Barty also mentioned in his previous statement of retiring from the Sunshine Doubles that he had to prepare for the showdown. Today Barty admitted that her plan was to make the showdown in her hometown of Brisbane her last goodbye to professional tennis. It was because it was canceled that disrupted her plans, so there was now a decision to announce her retirement in advance!
Barty told the WTA yesterday to remove her rankings, which also means a new women's singles world number one after the end of this year's Miami Open. Judging from the current situation, the Polish player Svyakte, who won the championship in Indian Wells last week, can become the new world number one as long as she scores the third round in Miami, and if she is upset, Spanish player Bardoza wins the championship in Miami to become the world number one, and other situations will be Sweiakt to the top. After the news of Barty's retirement was announced yesterday, some netizens commented that "fortunately, it was not announced after the end of the Australian Open, otherwise the WTA has changed three world firsts in just two months." Indeed, Barty's retirement has put WTA back in the chaos, and WTA's world number one has indeed changed too quickly compared to ATP. Throughout the history of tennis, at the ATP only Rios is the world number one without a Grand Slam champion, while the WTA has Yankovic, Safina, Capriskova and others who have not won a Grand Slam, considering that Sakari, Sabalenka, Bardoza and others who may reach the top later have not even reached the Grand Slam final.
The focus this week and next week is on the Miami Open, with today's daytime game winner Cuddla losing three sets to the first victory in the ATP main game. Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai advanced to the second round of the women's singles, and Wang Xinyu was out. We will continue to pay attention to bringing relevant reports to everyone.