The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, former world number one, published a video to clarify some points about his return and expressed the feelings that returning after a long period of inactivity due to injury generates in him.
“I hope, first of all, to feel those nerves again. That excitement, those fears, those doubts. I hope of myself not to expect anything, this is the truth. To have the ability to not demand of myself what I have demanded of myself my entire career”expressed Nadal in a video posted on social networks.
Nadal, 37 years old, announced last Friday his return to tennis ahead of the Brisbane tournament, in Australia, which will take place from December 31, 2023 to January 7, 2024.
His last match occurred on January 18 of this year, when he lost to American Mackenzie McDonald in the second round of the Australian Open, while suffering from discomfort in his left psoas that led to more complex medical treatment.
“I am and have been afraid to announce things because, in the end, it is a year without competing. It is a hip operation, but what worries me the most is not the hip, but everything else. The reality is that it is a long time “and one has doubts about his body. But hey, I think I’m prepared and confident and I hope things go well and that it gives me the opportunity to enjoy the court again.”indicated the winner of 22 Grand Slam titles.
“I think I’m in a different time, in unexplored territory. With this, one has internalized what he has done throughout his life, which is to push himself to the maximum and, right now, what I really hope is to be able to not do it, to not push myself to the maximum,” said the Mallorcan tennis player.
“To accept that things are going to be very difficult at the beginning and give myself the necessary time and forgive myself if things go wrong at the beginning, which is a very big possibility, but knowing that There may be a not-too-distant future in which things can change if I maintain the illusion., work spirit and the physique responds to me. Without a doubt,” he said. Nadal.
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