Jordan Thompson of Australia shakes hands with Rafael Nadal of Spain after he won his quarter-final match 5-7, 7-6, 6-3, during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Rafael Nadal's comeback from hip surgery is on hold after he withdrew from the Australian Open with an injury a week before the start of the season's first Grand Slam ...

Rafael Nadal’s long-awaited comeback has already come to a halt. The 37-year-old tennis legend announced Sunday he has withdrawn from the 2024 Australian Open after suffering a new muscle injury ...

Rafael Nadal and his wife Maria Francisca Perello welcomed their second son at the Quironsalud Palmaplanas Hospital in Palma ...

“It's obvious it's a high percentage that it's going to be my last time playing in Australia,” Nadal, a two-time Australian Open champion, said of the Open, which begins Jan. 14.

Nadal has won the French Open 14 times. He is known as the “King of Clay”. Tennis does not start happening on the red clay he excels on until April.

The 37-year-old Nadal has won the Australian Open twice — in 2009 and 2022 — and his absence will leave this year's event without what had been expected to be one of its main story lines. It ...