This is how Nadal recovered and prepared the attack in the final

Clear noon. Rafael Nadal go to the runway 26 Club Paris Jean Bouin, where you have an allotted time until one o’clock in the afternoon. After a day of recovery on Wednesday, with just 45 minutes of muscle relaxation using the racket, on Thursday he prepares with the usual caution to attack his fourteenth Roland Garros final.

Previously, he worked thirteen times on court 3 or 5 of the main tournament venue in previous editions. He decided to go to an adjacent facility to avoid part of the restrictions applied by a new organization due to the change in the presidency of the French Federation (FFT). He wanted to be surrounded by his whole group. Inaccessible to the public, several dozen fans crowded into a fence to take a photo of the idol.

It took more than eight hours to participate in the fights Felix Auger-Aliassime and Novak Djokovicbut he had a pillow two days without tennis before measuring himself this Friday, not before 2:45 pm, in German alexander zverev. Later they will encounter Norwegian Casper Ruudfrom Rafa Nadal Academy, and in Croatian Marin Cilic.

For physical recovery, combined with pain control in his left foot in the French capital, he joined a major therapy in the future of his career. The Parcheesi games in their next they assume a therapy related to cleaning a forehand or a backhand. “The team and the family helped me get here,” the tennis player from Manacor stresses whenever there is an opportunity, more so “after three and a half complicated months.”

Francis Roig makes records in Nadal’s tennis, who on the other side of the net has two more coaches and ‘sparring’, Carlos Moya and Marc Lopez. the physio Rafa Maymo no details are missing. the doctor, Angel Ruiz-Cotorronot entering the playing field. Good sign, it doesn’t directly interfere with the session.

Charles Costamanager and confidant, talking to two of the tennis player’s uncles, Miguel Angel and Rafael. The father, Sebastiancomes with Jordi Robert (Tuts), from Nike. Benito Perez-Barbadillo it was achieved that Roland Garros increased the quota of media present, which the Spanish press, like other years, was part of the ritual. As is the case with the joint eating of Nadal block or his wife Mery Perellohis mother Anna Maria Parera and his sister Maribel don’t go to practice.

Charly Moyà gave her impressions on the fight. Before turning on the microphones and recorders of the cell phones, he asked, almost pleading with a loose mood of resignation, “ask me a question or two about the maximum foot. We’re in the semifinals and only the foot has been made. to talk about. I think that’s all being done. ”

champion of Roland Garros in 2008, was satisfied and proud of his student’s evolution after a six-week break due to a rib injury. “After five games, how the jump comes is important. This is the most atypical clay season of his career. And it can cause doubts. Obviously we also have doubts, but historically he has responded when necessary. There are two games left. Hopefully. Good sensations, respecting the rivals “.

And the subject of the foot comes out. “This is a topic that he has to say. We all know what he is going through. It will make the merit much greater. He will say, but it is not a miracle.”

The Praetorian Guard reunites. They know the script and follow it wholeheartedly. On Friday he will be 36. If the result is included, dinner strictly. The celebration may wait a few days. This is what everyone wants.