on Wednesday Rafael Nadal He said goodbye to the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-Trofeo Conde de Godó. “Almost certainly I have played my last game, I approached it thinking it was the last,” said the Manacorí before leaving his club, RCT Barcelona-1899.
“The goal was to play and for nothing to happen, to leave healthy,” said the 37-year-old Spaniard after losing to the Australian. Alex de Miñaur. He fought the initial set, 5-7, he held back in the second, 1-6, because “at this moment he doesn’t play. He couldn’t have started, he had to play with what he had.”
Because it will be at Roland Garros, “there”, where he will give himself without physical considerations, “and let it be what God wants”.
He spoke of a previous calendar that passed through Madrid and Rome. “In Madrid I will try to give a little more and in Rome a little more”, with the idea of accumulating training and competition load. Although going day by day, because “I am measuring how I feel, my body is speaking to me.”
“I hope to be in Madrid,” he said. And the great news is that it didn’t take him two days from Godó to go to the Caja Mágica, where he trained this Friday.
He wants to test himself by trying quality sets with well-rounded rivals; he must adapt to the height factor of the Spanish capital. Furthermore, since they will not start as seeded, the first round will take place between next Wednesday and Thursday.
Nadal arrived in Barcelona ranked 644 in the world ranking, provisionally ranked 512. This is what counts for the draw, which will take place on Monday at 11 in the morning. He enters the competition ninth in the world, his ranking protected by a long injury.
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2024-04-19 13:49:48
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