Rafael Nadal assured that he will not attend Roland Garros if he feels that he has no option “to be competitive.” Although he also said that if he feels he has “a 0.01% chance” he will go for his 15th crown in Paris. “I don’t want to feel at Roland Garros the way I felt in Madrid or Barcelona, without being able to really fight,” said the tennis player in an interview with French public television France 2.
Nadal assured that with the clay court Grand Slam he has “emotions and a history” that would make him “harder on a personal level to play it without being able to compete.”
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”I mean going out to play the tournament thinking that I can’t be at my best, one hundred percent. If being at the maximum is not enough to even win a game, we will have to accept it. But I don’t see myself entering the court knowing that I have no option,” said the Mallorcan.
Rafael Nadal assured that he will not attend Roland Garros if he feels that he has no option to be competitive. (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)By: REUTERS
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In addition, he acknowledged that his physique “reacted a little worse than I expected at the beginning of the season” but that now he is “happy with the progression.”
The Olympic dream is still alive
”I’m fine, happy to be on the circuit after several months without knowing if I could play again. I was very sad not to be able to play in Monte Carlo, but I was able to play in Barcelona, Madrid and Rome, and I hope to play Roland Garros. “They are tournaments that have great sporting and sentimental value for me, it is difficult to explain it in words, I hope to be able to play in all the tournaments where I can be,” he said.
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He also reiterated his desire to play in the Paris Olympic Games: “They are something unique in sport, an atmosphere that is only experienced during the Games, in sports such as tennis, football, basketball, soccer, the most popular sports. I think they are the essence of sport. This year they will be at Roland Garros, a place that is special for me, in Paris, the most important city of my career. We will see, there is a lot of time ahead, I have to do many things first, but I hope to be able to compete in them, I would like to very much.” (With information from EFE)
2024-05-14 08:51:00
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