Nadal's right knee is increasingly fragile

jm1980 said:
Knees weak, arms heavy
Mom's spaghetti
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Beautiful legs:

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smoledman said:
Don't worry the best doctors on the planet are already prepping his bionic knee replacement that will give him 140mph serves and 7000rpm forehands.
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Of course you would know that from the experience of the person in your avatar. He really didn't have a meniscus repair, he underwent something along the lines that you are suggesting will happen to Nadal. Now I know why at 38 he is, I'm told playing better than ever.
 
wim2015 said:
In three consecutive years, Nadal suffered from the same right knee injury. Let's count:

In 2017 he played 10 non-clay tournaments (Brisbane, AO, Mexico, Indian wells, Miami, WC, Montreal, Cincinnati, USO, Beijing) before injured the right knee in Shanghai.
In 2018 he played only three non-clay tournaments (AO, WC, Toronto) before injured the right knee in USO.
This year he played only two non-clay tournaments (AO, Mexico) before the same injury strikes again.

It looks that Nadal's right knee
1. is hardly to get cured.
2. cannot stand high-intensity competition on the hard/grass courts any more.

It is still highly likely that Nadal will shake any injury off on the clay court and dominate the upcoming RG. But if the right knee injury trend continues, his chance on non-RG slams is becoming slim.
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He was playing lights out
Very sad in a often sad career
 
Rest and anti-inflammatories are the only things that can fix rafa's knee. so he needs to go fishing til April when Monte carlo comes around and play only 2 warmup tournaments before French open. 3 if you count monte carlo
 
Pathetic excuse from Nadal ,again.
He will fully recover when MC begins defying any science.
The magic of clay?
 
IIRC it was at AO 2010. After QF against Murray where Nadal retired due to knee injury, Matts Wilander in his 'Game. Set, Matts' comment of the match, warned Nadal publicly that Nadal should change his game, alter his playing style to reduce acumulated strain on his body, because after years of doing it when the time comes, he will be unable to play when he will need it the most - at the end of his career, when he should be earning the maximum of 'both fame and money' (not the exact quote, but that was the essence), he will have to end his career.

Nadal was 23.5 years old at the time Wilander made that public comment/warning and a 2009 AO Champion.
 
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octobrina10 said:
Ugly images
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WOW, how did you manage to pull exactly those PR shots out of the thousands that you have?

BTW, you should get on with the program: those are old pictures. In the new available he looks older and respectively much more like he is in real life. You are getting older too, you know, so no shame in worshipping those no?

P.S. I removed the eyesore. Don't want someone to lose his eyesight.

:eek:
 
Out of the Big 3, as the years went by, Nadal altered his game the least. It does not matter if he was not intelligent enough to grasp why he should do it. It does not matter if his playing style cannot be altered easily. The only thing that matters is - he did not plan for the future while he could still do something about it.

While indeed being the issue, it is not his clay heavy record that prevents him from being the GOAT, regardless of accomplishments/numbers/stats. Being unable to alter, develop, adopt his playing style to age and his only competition (Federer, Djokovic) developing their game is.
 
lol. still remember avoiderer tanking against robredo to avoid another beatdown from rafa at us open 2013. would have completed the full set of beatings at grand slams.
 
I'm just sick to death of Rafa's poor sportsmanship, on court especially.

His extended change of ends, dubious trainer calls, walking off the court mid-game to tape his fingers, yes, mid-game. Imagine if anybody else tried that crap!

Then his constant injury excuses after a loss.

It's mind-boggling how he's deemed a role model.
 
Tennis_Hands said:
WOW, how did you manage to pull exactly those PR shots out of the thousands that you have?

BTW, you should get on with the program: those are old pictures. In the new available he looks older and respectively much more like he is in real life. You are getting older too, you know, so no shame in worshipping those no?

P.S. I removed the eyesore. Don't want someone to lose his eyesight.

:eek:
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These are newer pictures - Nov.2018:
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If you ever had any proper coach for any sport/game when you started at - you have heard this sentence : If it hurts, you are doing something wrong.

Therefore, the obvious question is : did Nadal have a proper tennis coach?
 
Tennis_Hands said:
WOW, how did you manage to pull exactly those PR shots out of the thousands that you have?

BTW, you should get on with the program: those are old pictures. In the new available he looks older and respectively much more like he is in real life. You are getting older too, you know, so no shame in worshipping those no?

P.S. I removed the eyesore. Don't want someone to lose his eyesight.

:eek:
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A recent photo (February):

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