Nadal Interview with marca,com

[ClayDeath]

my prediction and analysis stands:

 

I am with Sampras on this but I saw it coming long ago. it is an end of a brilliant career.

zero titles during the remainder of this year and 0-1 title next year.

he is not making any progress by wasting away on the hard courts. he can hardly get anything going with any consistency on his best surface.

 

it is over. I don't know why he is out there damaging his legacy. he cant beat the top players and he cant win any meaningful titles with his current game and his current fitness levels.

 

he pushed and shoved the damn ball like a club player against rosol and should have lost. as a matter of what when you play this poorly against a #69th ranked player you really did lose.  I don't call that progress and I can hardly call that a confidence booster.

first set was gone in 23 minutes. rosol lost just 1 point on his first serve.

I refuse to believe he is going to make an impact until I start seeing him training like crazy on the red clay and also doing an immense work on the fitness front.

 

what I want to see is that his team brings in a top flight fitness expert who specializes in tennis.

 

djokovic hired Muster's old fitness coach and took his fitness higher than in it has ever been before.

djokovic shows you how it is done: be willing to outwork them all and he does.

 

without the fitness and his once supreme physicality he cant challenge the best in the sport. also the chance for injury is too great now. more now than ever before.

 

[brokenshoelace]

my prediction and analysis stands: I am with Sampras on this but I saw it coming long ago. it is an end of a brilliant career. zero titles this year and 0-1 title next year.

Hate to break it to you and your "prediction and analysis," but Nadal has won more than zero titles this year.

 

[ClayDeath]

we know that. that is supposed to read during the remainder of this year.

 

 

I don't even call the hamburg title a title. who was there? fognini? he choked in key moments.

just like rosol choked with just 2 points from victory. does anybody call that a win?

I don't. Rafa let too much slip away. he knew what he was doing.

some of his own countrymen and country women say that they don't think even Rafa knows what is happening to him.

I think that is a wrong premise. Rafa knows exactly what he is doing and what he has been doing.

he gave up the big game hunt. it simply calls for too much work and too much sacrifice.

 

and by his own calculations he has clearly done enough. that is what his belief  isand that is what he said before he pulled up at Paris this year.

with a little better training and better management of his fitness he could have added 4-5 more slams to his total.

he left too much on the table where history is concerned.