But not on serve.
For all the reasons stated he won’t be able to win anything significant maybe this translates to clay as well only time will tell he will have a little more time and the serve isn’t as important…
"He's far more limited it seems," the American great said on Nine's coverage.
"It doesn't seem like he can arch back with his abdominal and reach back for the ball over his shoulder. As he's serving, everything is moving out to his left side.
"I just don't know if he can use the abdominal to reach back up there. He's also hitting it at a lower contact hit point, not as high, that makes it harder to be accurate.
"It's something that we watched in the US summer when he came to play in Cincinnati and the US Open.
"He was suffering from that and we thought it might've been a temporary situation, (but) it does not appear to be the case. It has not resolved in that time, which was about four months ago.
"It would seem to us that would not be a choice that he would willingly make. That is an accommodation for the injury he sustained at Wimbledon I would have to assume."
Henman was also in agreement with Courier and explained how Nadal's new ball toss was hampering his flexibility on certain points.
"It's really taking out the kick serve, the top spin on the second serve, because you've got to get up the back of the ball, and to do that you need to arch your back," he said.
"If your ball toss is a little bit further in front, then you're only coming around the side of the ball.
"It means you can only hit a slice serve and that limits where Rafa's really going to be able to hit into the box."
Former English pro Mark Petchey also noticed the slight change while sitting courtside during Nadal's clash against de Minaur.
"The predictability is one thing, but it's obvious to see that he's not trying to serve at the body, because that's been his pattern over the last couple of years on second serves," he said.
"The other thing from that graphic is how far forward it (the ball) is. That affects your plus-one shot.
"He's a lot further inside the baseline, he's a little rushed on his plus-one after his serve because of how far forward the ball is."
United Cup Tennis 2023: Rafael Nadal injury concerns made after Alex de Minaur loss, Australian Open news (nine.com.au)
No this injury is permanent they don’t take this long to heal I looked it up and it’s permanent scar tissue around the ab like a long thin elastic sheet not a compact thick muscle..
Even the bookies had Alcaraz as the favorite for RG because of the question mark regarding Nadal's injury. Means very little.
No... he completely separated at midriff. It actually increased his reach.
Did his team tell him that he shouldnt have played bunch of exhos at the end of year?
Fed fans watching from the sidelines:
Indeed. Appaz he's happy to repeatedly destroy every single other part of his body throughout the year, but can't replicate a serve which held up fine for 7 rounds and got him his simplest non-clay slam.
this is super funny stuff that most of fans outside serbia are with serbian descent, lol, son, try better next time pls
Gramps, for one you seem to have some issue with Serbians since you never bring up Swiss or Spanish when talking about Federer and Nadal. Secondly, I've told you multiple times I'm not Serbian, which a lot of the forum can attest to because I posted face pics before, but you keep up with this ignorant bs. You're annoying and you need to stfu.
Someone cares, especially at noon, but in the mornin and evening too
He has the knack for the impossible! That’s what makes him so great. The perpetual fighter! Let’s hope he can rise from the dead like the undertaker he has done this so many times before and taken me by surprise when I thought all was lost but he is getting older these Houdini like acts can’t last much longer
It's pathological and disturbing that he thinks every fan of Djokovic, an international sports star, is Serbian. It's not been once or twice but multiple times at this point so there's some underlying issue somewhere and they have been banned for less. Lol, that sounds like it might be right.
You can't expect a fake tear to have any effect at all.
are Djokovic fans as fake as him ? son! One guy has a RF name , another pretended to be Nadal fan for years , so sad. Fake attracts fake, no wonder Roddick ,Fed and many players called out his fakery.
Djoker has it all sealed up already…
Yes this is what I read as well and mentioned to @NeutralFan the scar tissue being unable to ever healI think it's something to do with scar tissue reducing his flexibility?
"Scar tissue has less flexibility than muscle or fascia, leading to decreased mobility and flexibility."
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You're right. There is some deep delusion and detachment from reality involved there, and some people can't be reasoned with.
Very true anything can happen in sport!
Neutral is not neutral
I also thought that.
He needs Feliciano and Roger to help him win Wimbledon for the third and final time.
Yes for sure but I think Zod def not ready this tournament and Alcaraz is a big unknown looks a bit inconsistent back end of the season and also in the exhos hopefully he can work his way into the tournament as he is legitimate contender when he is on. Also a player I really like fantastic temperament I’m a fan already
