He was called to be a candidate for world number one, to enter the match between Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic. He earned the nickname of the Mallorcan’s natural successor at Roland Garros, considering that the Spaniard’s career would not be so long and successful and his turn would come.
Lost in 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 home kingdom, which did not weaken the good personal relationship between the two, which extends to their team and family. They even shared a hotel in the French capital.
He found his reward outside of his most natural element, clay. Lost in the final of the 2020 Australian Open, against Djokovic, but took the US Open a few months later. It would be the first of a series of Grand Slams, but his record stopped at that point.
For example, they lost their last three matches at Roland Garros. Testimony of a test related to a serious wrist injury was seen in June 2021. He had to undergo surgery. After eight months, he returned from below, but never again reached the elite. It was always so far away.
At 30 years old, 90th in the world ranking, he again suffered a setback in his career. The Austrian Dominic Thiem He is back on sick leave. It was not normal, even in his current difficult sporting circumstances, that he lost 3-6 and 4-6 against the Pole Daniel Michalski on the ground, nor did his countryman run over him Lukas Neumayer 2-6 and 1-6.
In those Challengers he again suffered from his operated wrist. “I felt the same sensations again as then, the same ‘clicks’. And then I felt pain,” he explained in a video he shared on his social networks. There was inflammation, so he stopped competing for a few weeks.
“The goal is to return to Estoril,” from April 1 to 7, if he recovers. “I lowered the intensity of the training sessions, which were shorter,” he lamented.
His plan was aborted early in the season. “I went back to training with my father, like when I was young. With a lot of intensity and time on the track,” he explained as a new method from Australian Open. The return to the origin was stopped by a new physical torture.
Source: La Verdad
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