/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/larazon/WETOKH7UPVBX5DRO2C7UEUUE6U.JPG "Changes to Nadal’s squad for 2023")
Rafael Nadal He’s already at the top with training for next season, in which he will have something new in his work group. One of his life coaches practically, since he was a child, will no longer be: it is Francis Roig. “It was a real pleasure for me to work with Rafa and all his team. We never thought we could achieve so many results and end up having such a long career with him, but Rafa is a real phenomenon and makes everything look easy. I took this decision after thinking about it for a long time and I understood that the time has come to start a new project that includes more than one player and that will allow me to form my working group for the next few years,” Francis himself explained. without giving more details.
Rafa wanted to thank him for so many years together (18 seasons), so many successes and, above all, what is already a relationship that goes beyond the coach-play.
I wanted to inform you that Francis Roig is leaving the team. Francis has been an important person in my career and I am very grateful to him for all these years of work and friendship. When we started working together I was a child and together with my uncle Toni, we started riding in circuits. pic.twitter.com/qeW0wFQTpa
— Rafael Nadal (@RafaelNadal) December 16, 2022
“I wanted to inform you that Francis Roig is leaving the team. Francis has been an important person in my career and I am very grateful to him for all these years of work and friendship. When we started working together I was a child and with me uncle tones, we started in the circuit. Francis is a great coach who knows tennis very well and has helped me a lot to improve more and more. I have only words of gratitude and I wish him all the luck in the world with his new project,” Nadal wrote on his Twitter account.
Rafa, therefore, will no longer have by his side a coach who was a great strategist, and one who most insisted on his ability to go further, to play closer to the net, a quality that he was adding more and more to his tennis The great goal of the Spaniard for this start of the 2023 course is to recover the confidence lost in the last tournaments of 2022, Paris-Bercy and the Masters Cup, which he arrived at just in preparation.
The first challenge is around the corner because in a month, on January 16, the first Grand Slam of the season, the Open Australia, where he also defends the title after the surprising and exciting crown he got last year, due to the doubts his left foot generated. In Melbourne he raised his ‘Grande’ number 21 and in June he would expand the count to 22 with Roland Garros.
:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/S37ZMNDUYFFEDDKPFCACCBYGTM.jpg "The moving encouragement of the Children’s Choir of the Teatro Colón to the Argentina National Team")