David Sánchez’s biggest fear of Rafa Nadal’s career: “Like Federer”

Everything around Rafa Nadal still feels like a background that will, sooner or later, come to an end.

Last Thursday, Rafa Nadal confirmed that he will not be in the Making a cupwhich will be played in Berlin (Germany) from September 20 to 22.

“It is with great disappointment that I will not be able to compete in the Laver Cup in Berlin next week. This is a team competition and to really support Team Europe I have to do my best for them and at the moment there are other players who can help the team to victory.“said the tennis player in a short statement published by the organization of the competition.

“I have so many wonderful and emotional memories of playing in the Laver Cup and I was really looking forward to being with my teammates and Bjorn Borg in his final year as a captain. I wish the European team the best of luck and will cheer them on from afar“, he concluded.

Nadal’s plans for the rest of the year

As reported by Ángel García in COPE’s El Partidazo, the tennis player from Manaco is feeling very emotional. Nadal even trains well, but as soon as the physical work increases, his body suffers.

Rafa Nadal, with an unhappy gesture, at the Paris Olympic Games

Missing out on the Laver Cup is not a tragedy, and the upcoming plans for 2024 include the ‘Six Kings Slam’, an exhibition tournament to be held in Riyadh in the month of October, in Nadal is signed and six of the best tennis players from around the world will play.

However, what Rafa Nadal thinks about Malaga, in the Final 8 of the Davis Cup, while Spain confirms its presence.

And Nadal wants to win it; He does not want to end his prolific career by leaving through the back door. The original dream was to be won at Roland Garros, but it could not be. The Spanish tennis player’s next dream was to walk away with a medal from the recent Olympic Games in Paris, which also did not come. And now the dream is to win the Davis Cup, at the end of November, with good friends, and where he has the option of playing both singles and doubles with Granollers.

Rafa Nadal, at a press conference in 2024

In fact, Nadal, who played this year at Roland Garros with the good feelings he left with Rome, is still convinced that he could have been much more competitive if he had a better draw.

Only Rafa Nadal’s body will mark the ‘tempos’ of a year that is getting shorter without the player able to develop his best game and free from discomfort.

GREAT MAN DAVID SÁNCHEZ about Nadal’s final

David Sánchez was one of the commentators who clearly expressed his fear of Rafa Nadal’s position, in El Partidazo at COPE, which he described as “emotional drama“if Nadal happens”retired as it is now: without playing, with a statement and a press conference“.

In this sense, he recalled that another of the best of all time, Roger Federer, “He had the same ending where he spent a long time trying, came back, stopped, had surgery, came back… And in the end he played a tournament: no only one of them but it was very emotional and very nice“.

For sure, Federer, aged 41, retired at the 2022 Laver Cupin an emotional doubles match in which he was paired with Rafa Nadal, in which they lost.

“Now“asks David Sánchez,”Rafa has to do that anyway, once we abandon the idea that he is retiring by winning a Grand Slam. I know it’s very complicated for him, but at least I want to see him win a big championship.“, he concluded.