Most notably, there is an injured Rafael Nadal missing Roland Garros for the first time since 2004, leaving Parisians and the wider tennis world wondering whether he will make it back again.
As Nadal put it when announcing his withdrawal: “I don’t know if I can be competitive to win a Grand Slam. I’m not an irritational person. I am aware of the difficulty of the situation, but I’m not a negative person, either. I want to give myself the opportunity to come back and compete.”
He says he wants 2024 to be a final competitive season on tour, but one wonders if he can aspire to much more than the sort of glorified return and farewell enjoyed by Roger Federer at the Laver Cup in London last year.
From a British perspective on the sidelines, Emma Raducanu has begun her own slow rebuild following operations on both her wrists and an ankle.
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