{"id":48173,"date":"2024-01-15T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/nadal-eyeing-mid-february-comeback-in-doha\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:33:10","slug":"nadal-eyeing-mid-february-comeback-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/nadal-eyeing-mid-february-comeback-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal eyeing mid-February comeback in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Rafael Nadal. is eyeing a mid-February comeback in Doha.<\/li>\n<li>This comes after his withdrawal from the Australian Open.<\/li>\n<li>He may also play an exhibition match against Carlos Alcaraz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to tennis analyst Laura Robson, Rafael Nadal might make his comeback sooner than anyone would have imagined. The Spaniard might take the court as early as mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>After a 12-month layoff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/12\/toni-nadal-rafael-nadal-comeback-will-be-the-hardest-one-yet\/\">Nadal<\/a> finally returned this month at the Brisbane International, but he was forced to withdraw from the Australian Open due to a fresh injury.<\/p>\n<p>There were rumors following the Spaniard\u2019s most recent injury that the 22-time Grand Slam winner would announce his retirement from the game because of his never-ending injuries, but he is determined to get back on the court as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>According to Robson, Nadal disclosed in a conversation that he intended to celebrate his comeback in Doha in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing boots on the ground, I\u2019ve been chatting away to some Spanish coaches over the last 48 hours and last I heard the plan was for [Nadal] to restart in Doha, which is actually just around the corner,\u201d she said during a Eurosport broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal, a previous winner, might make an appearance at the Qatar Open, which gets underway at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex on February 19. Despite the fact that he last won the competition in 2014, he hasn\u2019t participated since 2016, when he placed second and lost to Novak Djokovic in the championship match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly the injury isn\u2019t that bad, he\u2019s going to manage it,\u201d said Robson. \u201cWhether he actually plays [Doha], we\u2019ll see, but the fact that he\u2019s even hopeful to be out there that quickly after withdrawing from the Aussie Open is really great news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, on March 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/03\/rafael-nadal-slipped-out-of-the-top-10-since-2005\/\">Nadal<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz will square off in an exhibition match called The Netflix Slam at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. This is a historic day for the massive streaming service Netflix because it will be their first-ever live tennis broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>After he makes it through the Doha and exhibition schedules, he might play at the Sunshine Double, where the Indian Wells Open takes place from March 6\u201317 and the Miami Open from March 21\u201331.<\/p>\n<p>Or he could decide to skip the two ATP Masters 1000 hard-court competitions and focus on the clay-court circuit, where the Monte-Carlo Masters is anticipated to be his debut event starting on April 8.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alsoread\">\n<h4 class=\"text-uppercase mb-10 mt-20 fs-18\">Also Read<\/h4>\n<div class=\"post-box sty22\">\n<div class=\"post-frame js-ratioHtP\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<h5 class=\"title\">Rafael Nadal finds it \u2018impossibe\u2019 to win titles as he prepares to make comeback<\/h5>\n<p>Rafael Nadal is making a comeback in professional tennis. Nadal stated that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/12\/rafael-nadal-finds-it-impossible-to-win-titles-as-he-prepares-to-make-comeback\/\" class=\"post-link\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal. is eyeing a mid-February comeback in Doha. This comes after his withdrawal from the Australian Open. He may also play an exhibition match against Carlos Alcaraz. According to tennis analyst Laura Robson, Rafael Nadal might make his comeback sooner than anyone would have imagined. The Spaniard might take the court as early as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FotoJet-2024-01-15T132856.091.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}