“I don’t know what will happen in six months. I have a very good relationship with Zverev, but I don’t want to confess something like that to him. The reality is that I am here to play tennis, try to have a great 2023, fight for everything I have fought for throughout my career, and I am not thinking about my retirement,” he said before his first round match against the British Jack Draper at the Australian Open, the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the season.
In an interview with Eurosport, Zverev predicted that the Spaniard would retire after the ‘big’ Parisian, who has already won fourteen times. “Rafael Nadal will unfortunately retire after Roland Garros. I don’t want it to happen, but I think he will have a great tournament, he will potentially win it and take the opportunity to say goodbye“, he indicated.
The man from Manacor, 37, was upset with being asked at every press conference when he will leave professional tennis. “They think about it week after week because that’s how they show me at every press conference. But I will answer the same every time they ask me,” he said, a 22-time Grand Slam winner.
