If if if Nadal comes back in 2024 and plays well, would it mean something if if if Alcaraz beats him at RG?

[Rafa4LifeEver]

Nadal 2008 = 2 years older than 2023 Alcaraz

15 ya

 

[Unseeded Player]

If Nadal is actually playing pain free at the French open he will win it. Doesn’t matter who he plays on the way

Same was said by some hard-core fans for Fed at WB in 2021.. It doesn't matter he is 40 and had knee injury, he is still the daddy on the grass....

 

[optic yellow]

15 ya

oh right, yeah, but they are 17 years apart. we can blame the lazy rounding by the other poster.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

I think so, yeah. Rafa is still the king.

 

[messiahrobins]

Nadal isn't coming back.
Alcaraz won't be losing to him anywhere even if he does.

Nadal could barely handle an 18-year old Alcaraz in the first half of 2022 when he won the AO and FO, he has literally zero chance now when he's probably a fraction of that player (let alone peak Nadal) and Alcaraz is 10x better.

Yes that indian wells 2022 match was to me the real changing of the guard moment. Yes nadal won but to me it was clear alcaraz was ready to move the game on to a new level fairly soon. Beating djokovic in sw19 sort of confirmed it

 

[marc45]

Agreed: Nadal has only lost matches when "injured". AO v. Stan, who was already blowing the so-delicate, enhanced Spaniard off the court..

I am so glad Wawrinka won that match.

Nadal spent a career just abusing that god-like Wawrinka backhand

 

[hoodjem]

It will mean Rafa is 38 years old.

 

[Vincent-C]

Nadal spent a career just abusing that god-like Wawrinka backhand

AO 2014. Or was Raffi "injured", yet again?

Stan's the Man- and Nadal is excuse-boy.