It is a new tour de force that has succeeded Rafael Nadal yesterday afternoon at Wimbledon. If we are getting used to seeing the Spaniard give everything on the court, at 36, he continues to impress and after a dream start to the season, he is still in contention to win the London Grand Slam tournament. It must be said that few people saw him win the Australian Open at the start of the year, helped by the disqualification of his great rival, Novak Djokovic. Arrived in Paris with serious problems with his left foot, he nevertheless held on to win the fourteenth time at Roland-Garros and become a little more legendary.
Wimbledon has never been Rafael Nadal’s favorite tournament, although he has won it twice, but this year his part of the table is rather open and the final seems to be reaching out to him. However, he had a hard time in the quarter-finals against the young American Taylor Fritz. A fight of more than 4 hours that the husband of Xisca Perello ended up winning in five sets despite a big physical problem. If we know that his left foot makes him suffer, this time it was his abdominals that caused him problems. “The body, in general, is fine but I have something in the abdominals”he said at the end of his match, without really specifying what the nature of the injury was.
I thought many times that I wouldn’t finish the match
Visibly well affected, Rafael Nadal appeared physically diminished, unable to serve as hard as usual. The future dad even thought of the worst: “I thought several times that I would not finish the match, but the public, with the energy that they sent me, allowed me to go to the end”. His sister Maria Isabel and his father Sebastian also asked him to stop, but he did not hear it that way. He now has until tomorrow to recover, but he doesn’t seem particularly calm. “I’ve had these pains for a few days, but now it was much worse, I had much more pain and it handicapped me much more. I managed to win the match and let’s see how it will be afterwards. But I am preoccupiedobviously”he concludes.
Certainly not 100% tomorrow, Rafael Nadal will have a lot to do since he will be opposed to the terror of the circuit, the Australian Nick Kyrgios, currently in great shape.