Rafa Nadal, Winning 22 ‘big’, examined the moments that led him to his decision to leave the tennis last year and said that, after the Paris Olympic Games, he returned home and, realized that he would not compete at the level he wanted, he said “it’s over.”
“In 2022 I won ‘big’, then I was injured, I had a breakage in the stomachs, and in the US Open, before the contest, I had another problem with the stomachs. Then I am a father, so I have a different approach to the final length of the year“He said.
“If so In 2023, against Mackenzie McDonald I had something strong in Psoas. At first it seemed like an injury to recover, but I felt that things weren’t how I wanted to. Then we decided to do the operation. They told me this was the only way to get back, “Nadal added in a long conversation with Andy Roddick’s podcast, ‘served Andy Roddick’.
“After the operation, things are a bit better, but they found an important problem with the psoas And they have to remove it. After six or seven months I practiced again, but I felt like I couldn’t push, I noticed the limits in that area. I gave myself time to see if I could recover, because of the tennis level I felt competitive, “he said.
“That’s why those months are complicated, because I said, let’s continue fighting because it will work, but I will not compete at the level I want, for many reasons. Inside I After the games I went home and said it was over. Before I wanted to give myself a chance, then I said it would never make senseI didn’t feel like I could get back to compete at the level I wanted. When I felt it, it ended for me, “he said.
The Spanish Extenista also reviewed his duels against the Swiss Roger Federer and considered his rival his best tennis level in 2017.
“When I was playing well I won, when I played well, I won him. At the beginning of my career I won more than the ground and quickly more difficult. Then I beat him a few times on a fast surface, “he said.
“At the end of his career he made a step forward, he was playing more aggressively and for me he was mistaken a little mistake at first against me, he tried In 2017, it was the best level of his career“He added.
Source: La Verdad
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