"I'm confident things will go well" - Nadal breaks down Roland Garros triumph with the injury

"I was limping badly. I still hadn’t injected my nerve. From there, we came to the conclusion that I couldn’t keep injecting myself where I had been because it was continuing to get worse."

"We made the decision to inject the nerve at a distance, and that was a good decision. If we hadn’t done that, we would never have got to this point."

"It’s not an exact science, but it tends to last about seven or eight hours. Yes, it hurts. It’s bearable, but doing that 20 minutes before going out on court every day... it isn’t nice, honestly. You have control of your foot, but there is no sensation."

"There may be a little more risk of twisting your ankle. The way I’m playing, with a numb foot, it doesn’t matter if there’s less feeling because I go from limping to being pain free."

"The goal is clear; to carry out pulsed radiofrequency on the nerve to try and achieve the sensation I have when I’m playing with a numb foot. We’re trying to make that permanent. If it works, we’ll remove the sensitivity from the sensitive part of the foot."

"And there’s another significant factor; we’ve shown that I can play with the distance blocking. If we can get this treatment to work, permanently affecting the nerve, I will be able to keep playing. I’m used to taking things step by step. I’m confident things will go well."