MADRID-. The Spanish Rafael Nadalwho last week announced his return to competition in January after almost a year away from the tennis courts, stated that “it is normal for it to be my last year” active, but “I cannot guarantee it 100%.”
“I still have in my head that it’s normal or that there is a good chance that it will be my last year and that I will enjoy each tournament as if it were, but I don’t want to announce it as such because in the end you don’t know what can happen” Nadal said this Thursday in a video on his social networks.
In the last installment of these short videos in which he has been detailing his situation after announcing his return to competition in January at the Brisbane tournament, Nadal insisted that “one always has to give oneself the opportunity and not say one thing that then he can be a slave to what he has said.
“I cannot guarantee it 100% (that it will be his last year) because in the end I have worked a lot to compete again, and if suddenly things allow me and my physique allows me to move forward and I enjoy what I do, why would I I’m going to set a deadline, I think it doesn’t make sense,” he said.
The winner of 22 Grand Slams announced that “there are many possibilities that it will be my last year, there are possibilities that it will only be half a year, that it will be a full year, that we will not be able to achieve all of that, these are things that we cannot do right now.” “I have the ability to answer you.”
“I am only in a position to say that I am competing again,” said Nadal, who reiterated that “I did not deserve to end my sporting career in a press room, I would like it to end differently and I have fought and maintained my enthusiasm at all times.” for that to happen.”
Nadal announced last Friday his return to competition at the ATP 250 tournament in Brisbane after almost a year off the court, since his defeat in the second round of the Australian Open last January.
Since then, the player has undergone surgery twice and in September he already announced that the 2024 season would probably be the last of his career.
Source: AFP
