Rafael Nadal has posted a new video on his social networks in which he reflects on his feelings, his fears and his aspirations less than a month after his return to competition at the ATP 250 tournament in Brisbane, preparation at the Australian Grand Slam.
On December 1 Rafa officially confirmed his return to the slopes in January in Brisbane and since then he has expanded his musings through various videos. And in this Thursday’s chapter he acknowledges that “of course I thought on many occasions that it didn’t make sense (to compete again)… that many years, many things, many hours of work that you don’t see the result… I still think that I didn’t deserve to end my sporting career in a press room, I would like it to end differently and I have fought and maintained the hope at all times to make this happen,” Manacorí openly acknowledges, referring to that press conference on May 18 at his Rafa Nadal Academy where he announced his departure for Roland Garros and for the rest of the 2023 season.
The champion admitted that there were “doubts, the bad moments, very bad, with the best moments, but I had the right people around me as I always have throughout my career. Families, teams, friends. Everyone helped to me The decisive way to be where I am today, with the option to compete again. And the desire of people who want to see me play again has had an impact on my daily life.”
2024 is not marked as the last
Rafa reiterated, as he did at the Manacor press conference in May, that “there are many possibilities that this will be my last year, no doubt. There are possibilities that it’s only half a year, there are possibilities that it will be a whole year , chances are we won’t achieve all of that. These are things that right now I don’t have the capacity to answer you. I’m just in a position to tell you that I’m competing again, that I still think normal that thing is a lot of possibilities that “Let it be my last year and I’m going to enjoy every tournament as if it was that way.”
And the winner of 22 Grand Slam tournaments and 92 ATP singles titles emphasizes that “I don’t want to announce it because in the end one doesn’t know what can happen and one always has to give oneself the opportunity to say something .which later I might become a slave to what he said. It could be that way, I can’t be 100% sure, because in the end I worked a lot to fight again and if my body suddenly let me move forward. and I enjoy what I do, why would I’m going to set a deadline, it doesn’t make sense,” the video ends.
Source: La Verdad
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