Asked by Eurosport on the delicate subject of doping in tennis while Simona Halep, Fernando Verdasco and Kamil Majchrzak have all tested positive in recent months, Arnaud Clément felt that he had no doubts about Rafael Nadal, especially after the last edition of Roland‐Garros where he had admitted to having received several infiltrations (totally legal) in his painful foot.
“I never asked myself the question in relation to Rafael Nadal precisely on the last Roland‐Garros, everything he did in addition he even almost made it public. So at some point, there are rules, we follow them or we go beyond them, but in no case Rafael Nadal was on the limit, I believe. I have absolutely no doubts about the ethics of this player. And it is not because a player is particularly physical or athletic that he is precisely doped. You have to be careful with this kind of shortcut. We could also see players who were taken for doping and we said to ourselves, ‘but no, not him, it’s even weird’, because it’s not the physics we imagine for a dope guy. »
Posted on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 7:51 PM
