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Rafa Nadal: “When I wake up I don’t have that pain that I had for a year and a half”

Rafael Nadal he is confident of arriving competitive at the start of Wimbledon after six days training on the grass of the All England Club. “I’m enjoying playing on grass three years later,” said the man from Manacor in his first press conference in three years at Wimbledon. “If I’m here it’s because things are going well, if not, I wouldn’t be here. I’m happy,” he added.

The Balearic, who did not play in 2020 due to the tournament suspended due to the pandemic and in 2021 to rest after Roland Garros, will play his first match on Tuesday, against the Argentine Francisco Cerundolowithout having played official matches on this surface, but with two exhibits in Hurlingham in the pocket.

“I don’t know how I actually got there, it’s hard to predict. It’s probably the hardest tournament to predict. It’s a tricky surface where you need to spend days on it. I haven’t played anything in three years, this makes it extra complicated. Memory is important, the most recent memory you have helps on the surface. Within what is possible it has been a logical week, with better moments and worse moments, clearly in an ascending line”, he has pointed out.

“I’ve trained a lot. Yesterday I had a training disaster, I woke up with tired eyes, but then I played well. Today I also trained well. The most important thing is that the bad moments on the court are shorter and shorter. It went quite well, I’ve trained with demanding people. I’m confident I’ll be competitive”, clarifies the man from Manacor.

Nadal is tired of talking about the foot and the problems he has had in it and assures that during the tournament he hopes to talk only about tennis. “I can walk normally every day, when I wake up I don’t have that pain that I had for a year and a half. In training in general I have been better. In the last few weeks I haven’t had one of these days that hurts terribly. I’m generally positive,” she says.

“The past is the past”

About the first six months of the season, Nadal has been clear: “The past is the past and sport and life go by very quickly. I don’t really think about what you have achieved, it is something that has happened, that is going to Being in my museum for the rest of my life makes me proud of it. The first six months have not been easy even with all that I have achieved by foot. I would not say that it is a drama, there are other worse things in life. life, here we are just playing tennis. It has been hard to enter the court with pain and not knowing if I was going to be able to finish the training session or the match”.

In addition, Nadal has spoken about the conditions of the tournament and his preferences regarding the balls used in the English championship. “The ball is very heavy, different from what we are used to. These years is a little more hollow than ten years ago. The tendency is to play with more punctured balls. It seems to me a mistake from the tennis point of view. All equal points are played. What I don’t like about the change in trend is that the points are repeated too much. People hit him from anywhere because there is no sense of failure. Here this feeling is multiplied, explained the Balearic.

“With such a heavy ball, it’s important to move well, to be able to position yourself well. Then it’s a court that doesn’t give you much thought, when the ball comes to you you have to hit with determination, if you think too much they attack you or you make mistakes. gives the automatisms and the confidence”, he concluded.

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