"After the match against Moutet, to get to my hotel room, I had to be carried by my father," Nadal reflects on his foot injury in 2022
Present in the capital to attend a ceremony in his honor, Rafael Nadal responded to media questions. Interviewed by Amazon Prime, the Spaniard looked back on his two most unexpected titles at Roland Garros:
"2020 was very unexpected, but I would especially say the last one, in 2022. I'm not going to rewrite history, but, after my second round against Moutet, I arrived in my hotel room and had to be helped, carried by my father and some members of my staff. I was really in bad shape. Solutions had to be found with those injections in my foot. It was mentally, physically brutal, but well, for Roland Garros, I was ready to pay the price."
Indeed, Nadal had undergone multiple injections to numb his foot and mask a chronic pain that has been with him since 2005, called Müller-Weiss syndrome.
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