Nadal's been half-arsing the Fall season for years; hence his abysmal record only making a couple finals in Paris & London! He normally shuts it down for all intense and purposes after the USO; mentally/emotionally I'd say after the FO award ceremony!Federer started skipping when he was 35 and his first season of skipping was post knee surgery.
warmup not practice.
Not really. Nadal's barely won sets in their best of 3 HC meetings the past 7-8 years. Seems Nadal got spooked when he saw the scoreline for Djokovic/Tsitsipas and felt it would be better to hop on out of there. Good move I guess. It would've been a bludgeoning.
He wasn't afraid of Djoke. The implications from this go much further:That's what happened the last time he played through abdominal pain:
I didn't know that Djoko fanatics also have an imaginary world (besides Fed devotees).
Look, it's simple. Nadal made the wisest move considering the circumstances. There was NO benefit playing Djokovic now. In fact it would have had a negative impact if he played and lost.....heading into WTO.
Rafa said clearly he didn't want to risk aggravating the abdominal injury. He has a bad experience from the 2009 USO.
Normally sure but he doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Superb points, Mike
Rafa made it clear as day. He said had if he continued to play, he might have won, and then would play Djoker. After those two matches, his current minor tear would be much larger and therefore would risk another USO 09 issue where he has to take a full month off. If the tear goes down, maybe he will play WTF, but if not, then dont see why he would, unless he sees it as a risk worthwhile considering he will have a full month plus off after.
You put words into Rafa's mouth in your second sentence.
Fed got raked through the coals on TTW for skipping Clay.
Its not how Google works... For me that site wouldn't be even in first thousand results...
Multiple, but I can promise you that that WTF will be a carnage. No one will come out of it unscathed. Both Nadal and Djoke will post losses in the group stages and that would favour the Nadal (if he turns up, of course, but I think that he will). The group draws will be crucial. Imagine Feddie boy and Imhotep in one group with everything on the line from the get go!
Your post reminded me again that Fed's parents worked for a pharmaceutical company.
You are cheating TTW readers by making up a story about Rafa.
It appears that you actually don't watch Nadal's matches AT ALL. What you call "making up a story" is a known fact about Nadal. You can literally see on the replays sweat dripping from him.
It appears that you didn't read the comment I quoted.It appears that you actually don't watch Nadal's matches AT ALL. What you call "making up a story" is a known fact about Nadal. You can literally see on the replays sweat dripping from him.
I did, so it appears that you want to mask your lack of knowledge about Nadal with some more useless cliches.
You are trying to mask your poor reading comprehension skills.I did, so it appears that you want to mask your lack of knowledge about Nadal with some more useless cliches.
