Tennis: Nadal camp confirms Brazil return

Nadal has won 11 Grand Slams but injuries have dogged him and the 26-year-old Spaniard hasn’t played since June.

SAO PAULO: Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal, out of action since the middle of last season because of injury, will return at next month’s ATP Brazil Open in Sao Paulo, according to his spokesman. “Nadal will play in the Sao Paulo tournament in Brazil,” said Benito Perez-Barbadillo. A statement on Tuesday from tournament sponsors DGW Comunicacion, which recently was involved with a Roger Federer exhibition appearance in Brazil, said the event which runs from February 11 to 17 will ‘mark the return to the circuit of one of world tennis’ top stars’. Nadal, currently ranked four in the world, has won 11 Grand Slams but injuries have dogged him and the 26-year-old Spaniard hasn’t played since June.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 17^th, 2013.