Rafael Nadal He confessed on Saturday in Las Vegas, one day before playing the Netflix exhibition with Carlos Alcaraz, that the preparation for Indian Wells had been bad and that his only objective was to “come out of the tournament unscathed.”
In order not to jeopardize the European clay court tour, which could be the last of his career with Roland Garros on the horizon (May 26 to June 9), Nadal decided not to take to the court yesterday to face Milos. Raonic. He had had to vary his serving mechanics due to an untimely contracture.
The tennis player, who turns 38 on June 3, preferred to be cautious and save his strength for the earth, which for him begins on April 7 at the TMS in Monte Carlo, a competition that he has won up to 11 times. Until Paris there are three more tournaments and the only one in which Your participation is assured in the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadellthe second most successful tournament of his career with 12 wins, after the French Open, with 14. No one is aware that it is a utopia, given his physical condition, that he exposes himself to playing 26 games in a period of 42 days..
Nadal, accompanied these days by technicians Marc López and Gustavo Marcaccio, said goodbye to Indian Wells on Thursday in the smell of crowds signing countless autographs in front of hundreds of fans who idolize him. The champion of 22 majors has missed the Californian Masters 1000 for the second consecutive season, in which he registered his name in 2007, 2009 and 2013. The question is whether he will one day return as an active player or as a retired tennis player.
2024-03-08 16:09:09
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