Rafael Nadal said Thursday he will be out for up to eight weeks after suffering a left hip flexor injury during his shock second-round exit from the Australian Open.
The 36-year-old world number two wrote on Twitter that scans showed a moderate muscle tear. It will not require surgery.
It is just the latest injury to blight the career of the 22-time Grand Slam champion from Spain.
“I have carried out medical tests after the defeat yesterday,” he tweeted, adding that they showed “a grade-two lesion in the iliacus psoas of the left leg”.
“Normal recovery time six to eight weeks,” he wrote, adding that he would now rest and undergo anti-inflammatory physiotherapy.
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