Rafael Nadal will officially play tennis again in the first week of 2024. The ATP 250 in Brisbane He granted him a special invitation to be part of the game.
Given this news, this Monday he took it upon himself to clarify some issues: “I am and have been afraid to announce things because in the end it is a year without competing and it is a hip operation. What worries me the most is not the hip, but everything else. “I think I am prepared and confident and I hope that things go well and that it gives me the opportunity to enjoy the track again.”
Rafael Nadal last competed at the 2023 Australian Open. Getty Images
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On Wednesday, January 18, 2023, Nadal (No. 2 in the world and top seed) fell in the second round of the Australian Open against Mackenzie McDonald 6-4, 6-4, 7-5. The manacorí was the defending champion and his quick elimination confirmed physical problems. It ended up being his last official game.
“In the end it is a long time, so I hope to first feel those nerves again, that excitement, those fears, those doubts. I hope that I don’t expect anything. This is the truth. Having the ability to not demand of myself what I have demanded of myself throughout my entire career. I think I am in a different time, a situation and unexplored terrain, so one has internalized what one has done throughout one’s life, which is to demand the maximum of oneself,” he said in front of the camera, in a video published on his social networks. .
Currently ranked 663rd in the world, Nadal is 37 years old and has never been away from the circuit for so long during his career. In fact, it was around this time that he dropped out of the Top 10 for the first time in 18 years. “Right now, what I really hope is to be able to not do it, to not push myself to the limit, to accept that things are going to be very difficult from the beginning, to give myself the necessary time and forgive myself if things go wrong at the beginning, that “It is a very great possibility. Knowing that there may be a not-too-distant future in which things can change if I maintain the enthusiasm and the spirit of work, and if the physicist responds to me, without a doubt.”
2023-12-04 15:30:00
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