Rafael Nadal he could be playing his last games and we would be seeing the last of one of the biggest in the tennis and of sport. Apparently the Spanish would have put a date to end your career after 22 Grand Slams, 14 of them consecrated in Roland Garros. This would not only imply his retirement, it would imply that after the farewell to his majesty, Roger Federer, another of the most important white sport would follow.
Nadal retires after Roland Garros?
According to the information presented Eurosportin an interview with Alexander Zeverev, the 25-year-old young star, who is currently in thirteenth place in the ATP ranking and who has already established himself with different titles except for Grand Slam, shared that it could be the last year of Rafael Nadal in white sport, which is why it has caused some concern to all lovers of this sport.
“Rafael Nadal, unfortunately will retire after Roland Garros. I don’t want it to happen, but I think there will be a great tournament, most likely he will win it and take the opportunity to say goodbye.”commented the Russian. This casts some doubt on the situation, since for some time there has been speculation that the tennis player would already have been thinking about retiring for a couple of months, this thorn would have even increased since Federer’s departure, a situation that is now I would mark as a complete reality. But what is the grand slam winner really thinks, we will tell you.
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Nadal broke the silence on his retirement
With the impact of such important news in the world of sports, it was not to imagine that it would reach the ears of the Rafael Nadal, who had everyone thinking about what would happen and if he really had his retirement in mind for this year. Given the thousands of doubts that this has generated and the possible sadness that this entails, just a few months after the departure of another great like Roger Federer, the Spanish tennis player finally broke the silence about his possible retirement after Roland Garros.
After the Australian Open match, the first Grand Slam it’s from the season, Nadal was questioned about the withdrawal, to which he finally agreed to an official statement, “I don’t know what’s going to happen in six months. I have a very good relationship with Zverev, but I don’t like to confess something like that. The reality is that I’m here to play tennis, try to have a great 2023, fight for everything I’ve fought throughout my career and I don’t think about my retirement”, pointed out.
So, for now, we can breathe because we will still have Rafael Nadal for a while, even the 37-year-old tennis player has pointed out that this has been speculated on for many weeks, but it really is not something that he has in his next plans, he has even tired of repeating it in different press conferences that it is not in his plans and The day this happens it will be from one’s own voice that such news will be released, not from third parties.
How many Roland Garros has Rafael Nadal?
The King of the Earth has stood out as one of the greatest exponents of the white sport and it has been a total of 14 times that he has managed to win Roland Garros titles. The first of them was obtained in 2005 against the Argentine Mariano Puerta, winning three times by a score of 6-3, 6-1 and 7-5. For the following year, in 2006 he would repeat by beating Roger Federer, to later do it consecutively in the subsequent years of 2007 and 2008.
However, in 2009 the Swiss would come for a rematch and take the title from him, the same that he would now fight for the following years and would become the champion for five consecutive years (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014). For 2015 and 2016 he would lose the crown to Stanislas Wawrinka and Novak Djokovic, respectively. However, this would make Manacorí return better than ever and, again, consecutively, he would take 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 against Djokovic.
