{"id":1144592,"date":"2022-07-08T08:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T08:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/08\/rafael-nadal-withdraws-from-wimbledon-semi-final-tennis\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T08:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T08:25:32","slug":"rafael-nadal-withdraws-from-wimbledon-semi-final-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/08\/rafael-nadal-withdraws-from-wimbledon-semi-final-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal Withdraws From Wimbledon Semi-final | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from his Wimbledon semi-final against Nick Kyrgios with an abdominal injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Spanish second seed received treatment during his quarter-final against Taylor Fritz on Wednesday but pushed through the pain to win in five sets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have tried a lot of times in my career to keep going but it is obvious the injury will get worse,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios will play Novak Djokovic or Cameron Norrie in Sunday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal confirmed he has a tear in his abdominal muscle which means he would not be able to be competitive over two matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-time Grand Slam champion had practised at Wimbledon away from the media earlier on Thursday but then called a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the whole day I have been thinking about the decision to make,&#8221; Nadal told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it doesn&#8217;t make sense to play. I feel very sad to say that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nadal had strapping on his abdomen during his fourth-round match but was in visible pain from the injury against Fritz.<\/p>\n<p>He took a medical timeout during the match and ignored calls from his father and sister to quit before somehow rallying to win.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Wimbledon champion had been on course for a calendar Grand Slam, having won the Australian and French Opens already this year.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_home_topstory\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(17, 97, 142); font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\nRead Full Story &#8230;.<br \/>\nHERE >>><br \/>\n<\/span> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: BBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. 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The 36-year-old Spanish second seed received treatment during his quarter-final against Taylor Fritz on Wednesday but pushed through the pain to win in five sets. &#8220;I have tried a lot of times in my career to keep going but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5937,1936,4029,1875,18139,5938],"class_list":["post-1144592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-nadal","tag-rafael","tag-semifinal","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-withdraws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}