Nothing went as planned in Malaga. Even the most pessimistic trusted in a victory for Spain against the Netherlands this Tuesday and that Rafa Nadal could enjoy a well-deserved and great tribute on Friday, win or lose, for his farewell to tennis. In fact, the majority of personalities who wanted to accompany the tennis player in his final farewell, from Federer and Djokovic or Pau Gasol to King Felipe VI, had that day marked on their agenda. However, things went wrong and the Spanish team was knocked out of the tournament at the first opportunity. Huge sporting disappointment and brutal emotional shock because of what this meant. The last official shots of the Balearic Islands were already over. Days later, with cool heads, sources close to Nadal, from his uncle Toni to the captain of the Spanish Davis Cup team, David Ferrer, to Feliciano López, director of the final phase, have regretted that the farewell ceremony for the Balearic Islands after The elimination did not live up to its legend. As expected as it had been for months, the tribute at his farewell did not meet expectations and generated striking criticism. Related News visual No Nadal, the titan who made us love tennis Laura Marta After an extraordinary journey, marked by victories, defeats, titles, emotions and feelings, the Spaniard says goodbye to tennis and begins his legacy: his way of playing to elevate this sport to another dimension, and also of getting up, of turning the impossible into possible, of believing and making people believe. Already in conversation with ABC, Ferrer acknowledged that the tribute was overshadowed by the defeat and by the circumstances in which that occurred. «When you lose it makes you sad. Someone as important in sports as Rafa, on a Tuesday, at one in the morning. It was the circumstances, although nothing changes,” he acknowledged. “Regardless of whether it is more emotional or less, faster or not, he is sure that next year at the Grand Slams, Roland Garros, big tournaments, he will surely have other farewells where people will be able to follow him more.” Some sensations in the which he later elaborated before the microphones of ‘El Partidazo de Cope’, ensuring that “the farewell to someone as important as Rafa was left uncaffeinated.” «Perhaps very important people were missing in his tennis career. I missed a little those people on their team who had that role (…). At a professional level, he was ending his tennis career and Rafa’s farewell deserves something more,” he argued. “With the Davis Cup format, everything has changed a little. It was a Tuesday, it’s not a holiday, it was late… I did miss the farewell. It was done with the best of intentions, but it was all done quickly because no one expected to lose and when you lose you are sad. It is not a farewell in which you are happy because a stage and the best athlete in our country is ending,” added the Spanish captain. “It was a little sad. The fact of not seeing Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Pau Gasol… Pau was going to be there on Friday, and not giving him that gift… I shouldn’t have spoken, I was the one there, but I think they should have spoken by other people,” acknowledged Ferrer, who wanted to highlight that “Rafa’s greatness is not going to change because he has received a better or worse tribute.” Toni Nadal: “I would have liked something different more.” Toni Nadal expressed himself in the same sense. Rafa’s uncle and his coach for a good part of his professional career, who although he could not go to Malaga “because he had previously established commitments”, regretted that the farewell ceremony was not up to the standards of the tennis player. “He was emotional, obviously, with the public support. I like that there are images in these events, I would have liked to see images of Rafael winning the Davis Cup in Seville, in the Madrid tournament, at Roland Garros or at Wimbledon because I think this creates more emotion. I don’t mean to criticize anyone, at all. Yes, I would have liked something different more, but I am grateful as a family member and as Rafael’s former coach for the detail they had and the good intention,” he explained. «I would have liked something else more. Nowadays you can do much more emotional acts by mixing music with images and of course, Rafael is a guy whose images transmit passion and emotion. So, if they had put some images of this, I think it would have been more up to par, but I tell you, I always appreciate the intention. “Afterwards, if you ask me, I like to be honest and I think he was not up to par,” concluded one of the most important people in Manacor’s career. 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Also perhaps it was expected that Spain could reach the semi-finals and the main course was expected on Friday, with even more people and more of Rafa’s friends and rivals also in the pavilion. Curiously, the Toledo native is also responsible for the Mutua Madrid Open, a tournament that in Nadal’s last visit was devoted to the Spaniard, paying him tribute and dedicating a first-class farewell to him. Arantxa: «I would have been the first to leave» Finally another icon of Spanish tennis, former tennis player Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, contributed her opinion on the tribute to Nadal. Also before the Cope microphones, the Barcelona native explained that although she was not present in Malaga, she would have liked to be. «No one told me that I was at that tribute, nor did anyone contact me. “If they had told me, I would have been the first to come out to talk about Rafa, delighted,” confessed the winner of three Roland Garros and a United States Open and world number 1 in 1995. “They have selected a small group, wee. There were many important people missing from the world of tennis who could have come out and been at that tribute,” he added. 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