He played great in indoor hard against djoker at 6 kings which is his worst surface.So between Olympics to now he has not played a single sanctioned match and for you his chances have miraculously gone up?
Come on. Be serious. Without proof only thing you can say is he is even worse now than before.
that would be great too.Yes, but doubles, that's what I honestly want to see.
He played great against chainz in the first round. had he had a chance to work his way into the tournament rather than playing the finalist in the first round he might have had a chance.Z will take him in straights again lol no chance
Right. That match had no consequence so Djokovic let him play at that level. Do you think if that match was step towards 6 million , will he even be competitive?He played great in indoor hard against djoker at 6 kings which is his worst surface.
Also he should start taking whatever juice lebron has been on since miami and that would help too.
lo def not.I think he has it in him now that he seems healthy. I'd like to see him gear up and give it one last go. Skip everything but play Monte Carlo and Rome and then FO.
He wasn't healthy. and the match with chainz could have easily went either way at RG.Just eyeballing, Nadal was 12-8 for this year with just 4 matches out of clay.
On clay he was 10-6 with huge benefits like players like Leo Borg and IMG guy Darwin Blanch. These are not even top 300 players.
He was 6-6 vs top 100 players on clay. 6 big losses. Barcelona/Madrid/Rome/RG/Bastaad/Olympics.
How does OP think he has shot for another RG?
Not really close. He was close during sets and Sascha can do that vs almost anyone. Sascha went 5 vs Alcaraz the reigning champ as well as Griekspoor who is very bad on clay.He wasn't healthy. and the match with chainz could have easily went either way at RG.
He wasn't healthy. and the match with chainz could have easily went either way at RG.
We used to think he would be 60 winning RG. I genuinely thought it would be much longer, maybe 40s. Age catches up fast.Did you see his last few matches? He double faulted in like every service game. He knew it was time to go and announced it.
Tie break in second. he wins that he can easily win the match.It was straight sets....I think easily isn't the word to use here.
I don't think he easily wins anything, a win would be possible, yes, but not easily....did you see anything easy about Nadal's 2022 match against Zverev?Tie break in second. he wins that he can easily win the match.
Come on OP, this is a sick joke. Hasn't he done enough for his fans, or do you really want to see him spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair?
No he'd not.Nadal will take a wildcard entry for RG25, book it
I know you want this as someone that finally started appreciating Nadal this year, but it's too late. He's doneNadal will take a wildcard entry for RG25, book it
I know you want this as someone that finally started appreciating Nadal this year, but it's too late. He's done
He’s epic af lol, glad my bestie Ross warmed to himWe will see, sir
I'm just going off what came out of his mouth
I've been appreciating him for a while but in 2022 I actually started to kinda like him. And I could watch his press conferences for days lol
Actually most Nadal fans have accepted it for the best he retires. You will always get some deluded hardcore fans who can’t let go but most reasonable nadal fans know this is the right time to bow out.He's not going to end up in a wheelchair, people said the same thing about Murray
Funny how these "please retire for your own good!" pleas never come from the guy's own fans, always from another fanbase (or a rival's father in the case of Srdjan telling Fed to go home and be with his family while he was still a T10 player)
The point is, when is enough a enough? He's done because he simply cannot give anymore, if he could, he would.He's not going to end up in a wheelchair, people said the same thing about Murray
Funny how these "please retire for your own good!" pleas never come from the guy's own fans, always from another fanbase (or a rival's father in the case of Srdjan telling Fed to go home and be with his family while he was still a T10 player)
No need to take this any further.The point is, when is enough a enough? He's done because he simply cannot give anymore, if he could, he would.
That shallow tour has given him 8 losses. I don't know if you think you will go and become number 1 this year.Yea why not. As long as the tour is shalllow with talent Nadal will always have a chance as long as he has breathe
After that shallow talent beat him from pillar to post this year you mean?Yea why not. As long as the tour is shalllow with talent Nadal will always have a chance as long as he has breathe
After that shallow talent beat him from pillar to post this year you mean?
You do understand that it is movement, yes? And his movement is gone, no matter where he plays? The worse thing would be losing to those bums on a court he once owned. Zverev loss was at least to someone respectful as far as talent goes.well Zverev did. The dude who made the RG final. So if he can get just get that momentum rolling maybe it will trigger some muscle and brain response of his GOAT level. There’s a lot of bums on tour
You do understand that it is movement, yes? And his movement is gone, no matter where he plays? The worse thing would be losing to those bums on a court he once owned. Zverev loss was at least to someone respectful as far as talent goes.
Even 2006 to early 2009 Nadal wasn't quite as fast as 2005 Nadal.His movement has been compromised for years. Probably since 2013-2014. . He can work around it still. I mean Fed was one point away from beating Djoker at Wimbledon at 38. Nadal can figure something out for just one run. Call in a different coaching team and go all in.
LolEven 2006 to early 2009 Nadal wasn't quite as fast as 2005 Nadal.
Federer wasn't quite 38 at the time of the 2019 Wimbledon final, i.e. still 37.
Nadal was diagnosed with Mueller-Weiss syndrome in early November 2005, cutting his tennis year short and briefly threatening an early end to his tennis career. Nadal had won 11 tournaments in 2005, which remained the most number of tournaments that Nadal won in a calendar year.