Carlos Moy He was not at the Masters 1,000 in Cincinnati, but he flew to New York right after to accompany Rafael Nadal in his attempt to add the twenty-third ‘Grand Slam’ of his career.
Nadal confessed after his first match that he had slightly changed his serving mechanics to preserve the abdominal where he suffered a break in the past Wimbledon and that did not allow him to jump to play the semifinals with Nick Kyrgios.
Moy, speaking to atptour.com, talks about the need for change: “It was to change the serve or there was a very great risk of relapse. You go to war with the weapons you have. We thought it would reach Canada, but it was not the case. Just arrived in Cincinnati. Now let’s go day by day. At the moment everything is controlled, with certain variations. Within that, we believe that Rafa will be competitive“.
The coach acknowledges that they were forced to modify the staging of the ball due to the difficulties of his pupil to connect the usual service: “During training we saw that it was difficult for him to make the serve from before, to go looking for the ball upstairs, to make that extension. To protect the zone, we switched to a serve that would allow him to be competitive“.
