His father Sebastian He is the most obvious of his actions. He invited his son Rafa Nadal to retire. The same message he received from those next to him in the team box and family members, his sister Maribel and his manager and friend Charles Costa.
Nadal didn’t stop testing with medical help when the score was 3-6, after receiving a run of 1-5, 4-3. He was treated outside the ‘Cathedral’. He turned and continued.
Furthermore, he won five sets, in four hours and twenty minutes of one of the matches recorded in event history. Another Rafa Nadal on the fourteenth anniversary of his attacking defeat in the tournament Roger Federer in the final 2008. Probably the best battle in history because of its protagonists, the game, the importance of the result, the rain, the stops and the suspense of an imminent cancellation due to lack of artificial lighting.
Nadal defeated Fritz by 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 and 7-6 (10-4) at 4h.20 ‘. Another miracle from the Balearic Islands, the 36 -year -old added his nineteenth consecutive Grand Slam victory as he is the current champion of Australian Open at Roland Garros.
“I don’t know, I don’t have all the information,” the Australian confessed about the possibility of playing in the semifinals this Friday. Nick Kyrgios. It took him some time to do some medical tests, knowing that there was a muscle torn in a seven millimeter abdomen.
Before knowing the scope, just after the meeting, the American Taylor Fritz They asked him if there might have been some exaggeration on Rafa Nadal’s part. If only I could fake it. Still hurting from the defeat, recognizing that for the first time he wanted to cry after a tennis match, the American was clear in his reasoning.
“No, I don’t think he invented an injury or anything like that,” said Fritz, who analyzed Rafa Nadal’s adaptation process to the mishap, which he learned through the game.
“In the beginning he probably didn’t know how poor he was. That would explain a couple of games in which he wasn’t as explosive, more scoring. And then he knew what it was about, that it affected him on serve, but not to play baseline.His service fell in between 10 and 15 miles per hour (15 to 25 km/h.). I wouldn’t do that for no reason, ”Fritz said.
The American acknowledged that he immediately understood that Nadal would be competitive despite the serving problem, “because he moves very well in the third, fourth and fifth sets. He broke the ball, he ran, he won.”
To resolve any doubts, he stressed that he was sure he probably played with a lot of pain. Each has minor injuries and problems that grow as the tournaments progress. Everyone is trying to keep playing it. This is what it is. “
Source: La Verdad
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