Tennis. Nadal’s thanks to Federer and Djokovic

Nadal’s South American tour continues through Colombia. In Bogotá, at the Live Coliseum, he measured Casper again Rudd with Rafa’s victory 7-5 and 6-4. The lefty was returning to the country eleven years later and thanked the impressive support he received from fans: “These are usually difficult countries to play in and for that I thank the fans who came to visit us.”

In his appearance before the media in Bogotá, Nadal said that at the age of 36 he is still playing at the highest level and fighting to win titles thanks to the competition he has had for years with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic: “Between Novak, Roger and I we have gone further, we have been demanding and somehow it has never been enough, we always have to make a little more effort and that is what we have arrived at”.

The southpaw added that the competition has brought the three “to those levels of mental, physical and tennis demands, and that’s probably one of the main reasons” he continues to compete. Rafa, winner of 22 Grand Slam titles, said that in addition to this competition, there are other factors that lead tennis players to lengthen their careers, such as “medicine, prevention, knowledge and the professionalisation of all sports”. . This has given him “a larger team, because there is more knowledge of the things that help lengthen one’s career”.