Following his final training session this Monday in Manacor, Rafael Nadal feels that his work is done and he's ready to return to competition.

The world number 3, after being unable to play for the last month with appendicitis, will have his next official match in the Qatar Open, his eighth official return to competition after a long period out injured. This season alone, after missing the ATP Masters 1000 tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati, and the US Open - with an injury to his right wrist - he only managed to make a temporary return in Peking.

Straight after that he started suffering from appendicitis, when he was in Shanghai to play the year's second last Masters tournament.

Boris Becker, a former tennis great who now trains Novak Djokovic alongside Marian Vajda, described Nadal's original return to action as "the best return I've seen in tennis". This was in reference to the 2013 campaign, when, after having been out of action for seven months due to a partial rupture in the rotulian tendon, Nadal won ten titles in a row, claiming his eighth Roland Garros and second US Open in the process.

"What happened in 2013 is unrepeatable. First of all I'm two years older", Nadal said. There is a real test waiting to welcome him back to the circuit in Abu Dhabi and Doha: world number 1 Novak Djokovic.