Nadal nervous about coming back!
 

Says he's nervous about returning to the tour, doesn't yet feel his knee is fully recovered but hopes that will be the case by the time of Monte Carlo, ie. the start of the clay season!


http://bleacherreport.com/tb/d9ctG?u...ampaign=tennis

LOL 1 year off tour and not fully recovered? :) He's making excuses already, LOLLLLLLLLLL

Christ, take a half a year off and it's still not recovered sufficiently?

Oy vey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1O09L-OFdI

Q: How are you, as for today?

Rafa: Fine. I’m better of my knee, I’m not perfect, we’re not going to deceive anyone. I’m better, I’m with hope (or illution) because I see that in these last two months I’ve taken a step forward, which hadn’t happened the first three (months). I’ll start to play in Abu Dhabi and we’ll see how… how everything goes. I have doubts, like it’s normal. Physically, in regards to the knee, of course one has fears, one doesn’t know how it’s going to respond. All you can do is trust the doctors, trust Rafa (Maymo, must be) and that everything'll work out well but… I accept, and I’m prepared to accept that that at the beginning my knee might not respond well, and I might have to take it easy for some months, to compete, to stop, compete, stop, during the first three months more or less, no?. (0:50) This I have more or less accepted and into my head and I’m prepared for it.
(...) I suppose that to try to be fine, physically and tennistically speaking, for IW/Miami, in order to be able to arrive well trained, well prepared physically, well prepared tennistically, to Montecarlo. (1:10) I’m satisfied by… self-improvement, more than by triumph. I know I have improved myself, personally, and that is what gives me tranquillity and happiness…

Whole interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY7CsUPJN5I

1 year? Forget how to count recently?

Has he come back yet? ;)

if he is not fully recovered I worry why he is deciding to come back yet. Maybe a little over anxious and feeling antsy after so long off already. I can understand, but I hope he doesnt led his emotions override logic.

:lol: good point. He MAY drop out of the AO for all we know and not come back until clay season.

You just wonder if it's still the knee injury or if he's a hypochondriac who thinks he's more injured than he really is. He refused to give Rosol any credit for the win at Wimbledon. And it makes you wonder that if Nadal had won that match, would he have quit in the 3rd round considering his claims of just how broken and damaged his knee was.

Returning to something after a long absence will make you nervous, unless you're either complacent or you don't care.

Man I hope he comes back okay. Would not be good to see him come back and quickly dissapear because the knee has not healed properly.


Maybe he should not play AO.....and wait till the clay....at least the natural surface won't hurt as much.

Nah, he just enjoys being the underdog all the time, if he gets back and have so-so or even bad results, it's because of the injuries, long time away from the game, or any other of his infinite excuse list....if he cames back on fire, it's because he is such a great warrior, a grinder, a spartan of tennis...there's always a win-win situation for him

Playing the matches is not the biggest challenge. The challenge is training, as he has always trained harder than he plays (apart from during 2012 Roland Garros when he only trained for about an hour each day or less, due to his knee which he had numbed for the matches). He will have to pick and choose his training a bit more judiciously.

Nadal is supposedly nervous playing Monaco at the French Open.

I would be too if I were him. What if he loses every match coming back when he used to be a beast?

Nadal knows he only needed one knee to beat Djokovic in the 2012 French Open final. Nadal said he had no feeling in his knee after the numbing injection. After you've experienced that and conquered your greatest rival, a bit of pain during the comeback is nothing.

Well he hasn't played in several months. Maybe hes no longer as he used to be. I'm only speculating with the OP

Well he can't be any worse than one-legged Nadal, that is for sure.

Nadal's post match press conference Wimbledon,

Q. After what you saw of your opponent, particularly in the last set, do you think he can go on to be a threat in this tournament? Can he achieve more wins? Can he go a long way in the tournament?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. How old is him?

Q. He's 26.
RAFAEL NADAL: He didn't in the past, but you never know what's going on in the future. The thing is today he played great. He played special.
Sure, if he played the way he played the fifth set, you can win against everybody. But I think everybody who follows tennis knows that that's very difficult to do every day.
But if he's able to do it this time, he will have his chance. I wish him all the best.

Sounds like Nadal gave him the credit he deserved.