“I don’t want to state anything 100%, as I did before Barcelona (the previous week). When I withdrew from Monte-Carlo (at the beginning of the month), I said I could play in Barcelona and I couldn’t, it was a double whammy. I don’t want to say anything for the moment, but if my feelings are confirmed, I will probably enter the court,” he declared today at a press conference.

If he ends up participating, the world number 3 believes that if he plays “three or four matches, he will be happy”. He is returning from a long period of injury and has not played since his defeat on March 29 against Grigor Dimitrov. A complicated moment in his young career, which he experienced badly: “Honestly, this injury, and this period, was one of the most difficult I have experienced. I didn’t have many injuries either, or serious injuries, but it was a complicated moment for me.