Nadal played with a chronic foot injury and after the defeat against Shapovalov he told the press about his day. “I play to be happy, but of course, pain takes away your happiness,” he said.
Raphael Nadal lost to Denis Shapovalov in the round of 16 of Rome Masters 1000 and the Spaniard recounted at the press conference the hardship he was going through in competing with the chronic injury to his left foot, known as Müller-Weiss syndrome.
After beating Shapovalov with parts of 1-6, 7-5 and 6-2, Nadal announced that if he didn’t take “any” anti-inflammatory he would be “lame” and said that “I’ll continue like this until I realize the subject and my head has said enough.”
“It’s hard to comprehend my day, I have no intention of being a victim. I have what I have, tomorrow I will wake up horrible because I have nothing to pick up, I live with a lot of anti-inflammatories because otherwise, I am not can train “, Nadal’s statement.
Nadal’s crude phrase: “I’m not injured, I’m a player who lives with an injury”
At the press conference, Nadal summarized his moment in a rough sense: “I’m not injured, I’m a player who lives with an injury, it’s there and my day is complicated”.
“I try, but it’s hard for me. Many days I can’t train well, now in the middle of the second set it happened to me … You have to move well to compete at the highest level and I can’t. The only thing I could do was fight, I had to go back and now I’m sad, it’s a tournament I really like and being out is something I don’t like. But you have to appreciate all the positives, you have to accept it and move on. “featured the Spaniards.
“The day will come when my head tells me enough. I play to be happy, but of course, pain takes away your happiness. My problem is, many days I live in extreme pain. I enjoy it. what I do, but it gives me a lot of sad days “ Rafael’s confession.
Rafael Nadal and the doubt about his presence at Roland Garros
“In a while I’ve played at my best level since I came back, I won’t stop believing or fight to stop giving myself a chance”Nadal reviewed and added: “In case I don’t fail, I’ll do it in the best possible way. In case there’s a distant possibility, be prepared to fight it. Yes, I know how to do it”.
“I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, I don’t know what will happen in two weeks”, Nadal responded about his presence at Roland Garros (it will play from May 22 to June 5) and closed: “In the future, my head is still ready to face the challenge. I still believe I will have opportunities next week. I just need to raise my legs to allow me to play. I am confident, I have succeeded. I have seen of positive things. “
Source: EFE.
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