Fate cruelly feeds again with Rafael Nadal. The Spaniard, current champion of the Australian Open, was defeated in his second round match at the hands of the American Mackenzie McDonald, the architect of a true feat. What brought Nadal down, however, was mainly the hip injury he suffered in the second set. Rafa, a warrior that he is, gritted his teeth and stayed on the court until the end, even though he could barely move. A setback that was not wanted and for which even his rival said he was deeply sorry: “In the third set, when he showed the injury, it made me think a little about the game and about myself, about the game that I was playing so well in the first two sets. I’m sorry for him, I hope he’s better,” McDonald said at the press conference. “The game was never over until it was over, he didn’t want to retire. He kept fighting pretty much until the end, even though he wasn’t one hundred percent.” Unsurprisingly, it was a hugely aggrieved Rafael Nadal who appeared before reporters after the match against Mackenzie McDonald. While analyzing things with his usual extreme lucidity, without blaming the injury for his debacle, the Spaniard clearly noticed the effects of the physical problem that affected him and affected his movements. “I had been feeling like this for a couple of days, but nothing that made me think about what was going to happen,” began Nadal, who was surprised by the incident. “I think it’s useless to tell you how I feel right now and what my feelings are, but in the end all you can do is move on. Sometimes it’s frustrating to accept, sometimes you just feel so tired from all these injuries. Tomorrow will be another day, today of course I cannot say that life is great and that everything is going well. It is undoubtedly a hard moment, but as I have said, you have to accept it”, continued the Spaniard, who concluded with a kind of life lesson: “If I do what I do it is because I love tennis.”
Nadal is confident about his game
Speaking to Eurosport, Rafael Nadal acknowledged that he initially had to “accept things” the way they are. “You have to accept things, be calm, first recover physically but also mentally”. The Spaniard hopes that the injury will not be severe and henceforth won’t take much time to recover. “I have never done crazy things to want to return before time. Hopefully it won’t be long, I’m just asking that,” he added.
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