He was called to be a candidate for world number one, to get into the fight between Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic. He earned the nickname of the Mallorcan’s natural successor at Roland Garros, when it was considered that the Spaniard’s career would not be as long and successful and that his turn would end up coming.
Lost the finals Roland Garros 2018 and 2019, as well as the semifinals in 2016 and 2017. Four consecutive defeats against the king of clay in his fiefdom, which did not undermine the good personal relationship between the two, which extends to their team and families. They even shared a hotel in the French capital.
He found his reward outside of his most natural element, clay. He lost the final of the 2020 Australian Open, against Djokovic, but took the US Open months later. He was supposed to be the first in a series of Grand Slams, but his record stopped at that point.
For example, they have lost their last three matches at Roland Garros. The testimony of an ordeal related to a serious wrist injury detected in June 2021. He had to undergo surgery. After eight months out, he returned from the bottom, but has not managed to reach the elite again. He has always been very far away.
At 30 years old, 90th in the world ranking, he has once again suffered a setback in his career. The Austrian Dominic Thiem He is back on sick leave again. It was not normal, not even in his current difficult sporting circumstances, for him to lose 3-6 and 4-6 against the Pole. Daniel Michalski on land, nor that he was run over by his compatriot Luke Neumayer 2-6 y 1-6.
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In those Challengers he again suffered from his operated wrist. “I felt the same sensations again as before, the same ‘clicks’. And then I felt pain,” she explained in a video that she shared on her social networks. There is inflammation, so she has stopped competing for a few weeks.
“The goal is to return to Estoril,” from April 1 to 7, if he recovers. “I have lowered the intensity of the training sessions, which are shorter,” he lamented.
His early season plan aborted. “I had returned to training with my father, like when I was young. With a lot of intensity and hours on the track,” she explains as a new method since Open the Australia. A return to origins stopped by a new physical torture.
2024-03-27 19:16:25
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