Rafa Nadal faces one of the most important weeks of his career, perhaps the most important. Not so much on a sporting level, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Spanish Davis Cup team in the final phase of Malaga, but from a vital, sentimental and emotional point of view in what will be his last tournament as a professional tennis player after more than two decades. linked to the racket.
I think I am a fairly sensitive person, but I think I have been someone capable of putting things into perspective. I am one more who is going to make a change in his life. Enjoy sport in another way. I haven’t burned out from tennis like other people. If I could, I would continue playing tennis, but I don’t have the level of training in the way that makes sense for me,” the 38-year-old Spaniard said honestly at the press conference prior to Spain’s debut against the Netherlands.
The man from Manacor has not competed since the Paris Olympic Games in the summer, so his physical condition and his participation in Malaga remain unknown. “I don’t know if I will play a game or not. I have played very little recently (…) I am going to try to prepare as much as possible. The rest is speculation. It will be what it will be. If I am the one on the court, I will do it with the utmost enthusiasm and determination,” he acknowledged, in addition to explaining that Roger Federer, his great rival and friend during his journey on the court, could be in the Martín Carpena stands.
Despite being one of the best players in history, for many the best, Nadal’s path during his career has been marked by injuries, especially chronic Müller-Weiss syndrome that has affected him since his first steps as a player. professional.
“Many problems appear and disappear, which is why I have had so many breaks. And then I had windows to compete. Now I think I can’t do the activity normally and continuously. I couldn’t train at 100% with the last injury and I’m accumulating the others,” he explained about his physique and his latest ailment in the iliopsoas, with surgery included, which has not “allowed him to compete as much as possible.” of his career.
“I have the possibility of retiring in my country. I enjoy living here in Spain and it is something that makes me really happy. I’m feeling incredible support from everyone. The children, the press… all the people are enjoying me and they are showing it to me. It’s super special,” concluded the winner of 22 Grand Slams before a very important week.
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