Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has been training for the last few months to make a great comeback in 2024. He has previously mentioned how this might be his last season before he retires from the sport. Being 37, it won’t be easy for him to compete against the top ATP players. Ahead of his comeback, Nadal’s coach shared how he feels about him playing tennis after a long time.
He shared what his views are about Nadal’s endurance and stamina and how he does not feel totally confident about him being in his form at the tournaments in 2024. Ahead of his grand slam return, coming from his coach, Nadal’s preparations surely need more work if he wants to win the grand slams once again.
Rafael Nadal’s coach shares how he is unsure about his performance in 2024
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Rafael Nadal is being coached by Carlos Moya ahead of his comeback for the 2024 tournament season. However, right before his comeback, Moya shared how he feels a little less confident about Nadal being able to perform well on the court. With an intense reality check, Moya posted his thoughts about it on his official Twitter account as well.
"Playing best of 5 sets, winning, resting, coming back on court 2 days later… That's the doubt I have now, especially in Grand Slams. But there's some time left. If the Australian Open started tomorrow, it would be a real fear."
Carlos Moya on Rafael Nadal
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Carlos Moya added, “Playing the best of five sets, win, rest, return to court two days later … That’s the doubt I have right now, especially for a Grand Slam. But we have time. If the Australian Open started tomorrow, it would be a real fear.”
According to Moya, there is still work left to do on building Nadal’s endurance so that he can keep up with matches and tournaments. Given that these tournaments have a very hectic schedule, Moya feels that Nadal may find it difficult to keep up with them. However, that is not all that Moya had to say about Nadal.
Carlos Moya, apart from the hard facts, also posted an appreciative post for Rafael Nadal, where he talked about how an injury-ridden Nadal won a grand slam before he stepped off from the game in 2022.
Carlos Moya boasts about Nadal winning a grand slam while dealing with an injury
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Rafael Nadal had a stress fracture in his rib before he arrived for his match against Medvedev at the Roland Garros. Carlos Moya shared that he knows what condition Nadal was in and how much pain he was dealing with. But still, he played the best he could and even won that final match against Medvedev.
Carlos Moya doesn’t know if any other player in history has won a Grand Slam in the condition Nadal was in at Roland Garros 2022:
“The Roland Garros he won that year… I know the conditions in which he arrived, I know how he is in each match, I see what he has done & what he… pic.twitter.com/qzcoFhZgXJ
— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) December 18, 2023
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Moya further added that he had never seen any player do this ever before in the history of tennis. He also believes that no player has the guts to do what he did as he won the match in such a terrible condition that too a grand slam final, and claimed his greatest victory in years.
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