This week, Rafael Nadal makes a series of big declarations regarding the end of his career, which he imagined would end in 2024, as he announced last May. The Spaniard, injured since the start of the year, is slowly getting back into training and is still very far from a return to the highest level. However, he made a revelation regarding the Paris Olympic Games, which he would like to play with a certain Alcaraz.
Rafael Nadal spoke a lot this week on Spanish television. The man with 14 titles Roland-Garros has planned to make 2024 his final year but nothing is decided yet and he could go further if he feels his body is holding up. Not spared from injuries during his career, it is his body which will be the main factor in his decision. Even if 2024 will probably be his last year on the circuit, he wants to try everything to say goodbye.
Olympic double with Alcaraz?
While Carlos Alcaraz had also expressed his wish to be able to play doubles at 2024 Olympic Games with Rafael Nadal at time Wimbledon this summer, the latter went in this direction. “I have not had the slightest conversation with him in this sense. But I would also like, and it would be a good motivation, an encouragement for me, to close my Olympic cycle by playing with Carlos, with everything he is achieving, with the young people and with the great future that he in front of him » can we read in the daily newspaper As.
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The perfect time to quit?
If ever Rafael Nadal arrives in good shape next summer to compete in the Olympic Games, it would be a fantastic way to end a career. As a reminder, the Paris Olympics will argue at Roland-Garros obviously regarding tennis, a place that the Spaniard knows very well. In his career, Nadal has already been Olympic champion in singles (Beijing 2008) and doubles (Rio 2016).
Start of response in November
Rafael Nadal also revealed that at present, even though he has slightly resumed training, he was completely in the dark. After his psoas injuryAustralian Open, he initially thought he could return to competition on clay. But his recovery took much longer than expected and he had to have surgery. For some time now, he has revealed that he has been training again with 3 sessions per week of less than an hour without really being able to increase the intensity. He is waiting for November to have clearer ideas.
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