Rafael Nadal’s Shocking retirement admission after Roger Federer’s farewell
Rafael Nadal’s Shocking retirement admission after Roger Federer’s farewell: Rafael Nadal had a shocking admission after Roger Federer’s farewell. Throughout his retirement career, he struggled with injuries. His retirement admission on fitness will shock you.
In the early hours of Saturday in London, the world-renowned Roger Federer said goodbye to tennis after his final match in the 2022 laver Cup alongside Rafael Nadal. The match got out of emotion for two Rivals. After a 24 years long career with the Grand Slam titles, this marked the end of an era. The beginning of the greatest period of the end of men’s tennis.
This could have been started 9 months earlier when Nadal was planning to retire at the Australian Open in June. When he was battling with injury in the French Open. Throughout his career, Nadal had suffered many injuries.
9 months ago he was close to retiring after struggling with a foot injury that sideline him for most of the 2021 season. However, when he was almost on the brink of retirement, he pulled off one of the best and most memorable grand slams in Melbourne.
Nadal spoke in a press conference post Rodgers retirement
After Roger Federer’s farewell press conference about his retirement, he says ” I don’t know I am not at that moment yet. I was close to that time this year. I will not lie to you. During Roland Garros, I thought that it might be my last tournament and this is reality.”
“Although from then everything went pretty bad physically, I broke my abdomen twice at Wimbledon and New York. All these Misfortunes added to my personal issues. But I am not at that moment. I don’t want to think about that moment today. What I want is to go back to normality for everything to go well with my personal life as well as my professional life.”