Rafael Nadal, who advanced to the semifinals of Wimbledon on Wednesday, said he did not know if he would be able to play against the Australian on Friday Nick Kyrgios.
“I don’t know, I can’t give you a clear answer,” he replied when asked if he could play in the semifinals.
“If I tell you something and tomorrow it changes, I’m a liar. If I’ve already decided something, I’m not here. I’m not going to make a show about it. A decision. I need to know others. If there’s one thing “More important than winning Wimbledon is being healthy. I don’t know what exactly I have, obviously something is wrong, but I have to keep doing the tests. to determine to what extent, “Nadal explained.
“(I was) worried, obviously. I knew the pain I was going through and by the end of the game I was pretty much healed because I found a way to serve that didn’t bother me much. The painful truth is that I’m ‘One week I used to pull this discomfort, but now they have risen sharply. I have very little trained the services these days to make reservations “, he clarified.
Nadal confirmed that his family had asked him to retire from the stand, but explained that it was very difficult for him to retire to the center court of Wimbledon. “I thought about it for a long time. How many times have I done it and I hate it,” he stressed.
“When not one thing, another,” he continued. “At least these things heal over time, not like the foot, which is something very different. The reality is we’re in the semifinals of the Grand Slam with a problem. In bad weather, good face,” he added.
Despite physical serving problems, Nadal said he had no discomfort when he rallied and in the early games, when he was not in pain, he played at his best level in the tournament.
“If we put the problems aside, the level of tennis I have on the ball is very good. I played at my best level in a long time and from 3-1 I noticed something was wrong. I was worried, but it was part of it, ”he said.
Nadal also explained that when he went to the locker room in the second set he received some anti-inflammatories to continue the fight.
“They (doctors) haven’t done much yet. They gave me anti-inflammatories. The physio just tried to relax the area. Nothing is okay when you have a problem there. I won because I played so well from baseline, I didn’t win on serve. I know how to adapt to the circumstances my body presents to me, ”he assimilates.
Source: La Verdad
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