The number two in the world of tennis, Rafael Nadal, who returned to training on Monday after several weeks of rest by tendinitis in both knees, is a season predicted "difficult" end of the year.
"Even if you are already one hundred percent, we must be realistic. The remainder of the season will be difficult because after sleeping for a month, which will be nearly two, you lose the rhythm of the competition while others have followed "Rafa said after his training in his city, Manacor, on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
But the former world number one said it has "an advantage over his rival, Roger Federer:" I have 23 years ", compared with 27 of the Swiss, the current world number one, who dethroned the Spanish at the beginning of the month.
Federer won this year's tournament Roland Garros, Nadal made it to round, and also to Wimbledon, which did not play the Spanish.
Monday was that of "a small force without making contact, only just enough to see how I feel," said the tennis player, who said "happy."
Nadal has to return to competition at the 1000 Masters tournament in Montreal (Canada) on August 8.
The Spanish, who won the Open in Australia earlier this year, it expects to prevail in the United States Open in late August in Flushing Meadows.
