Rafael Nadal has announced his return to competition. For one last lap or to completely restart? It’s not yet very clear. But he comes back and it’s already good. One of the three greatest champions in history actually deserves better than a farewell during a press conference in an informal room to announce that his body, so often martyred for twenty years, is forcing him to retire. The director of the Brisbane Open (December 31 – January 7), curls his mustache and Craig Tiley, the director of the Australian Open, must be laughing imagining the faces of all those who laughed in his face when he staunchly maintained that Nadal would be present in Melbourne at the start of the year.
