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Rafael Nadal has given his first major interview since he played his last match exactly eight months ago, at the Australian Open.
A few months later he announced that he would not play for the rest of the season. Now, a relaxed and healthy-looking Rafa chatted with Juanma Castano in front of the Movistar Plus+ cameras
He hinted that his decision to step away from tennis in 2024 will depend on his physical condition…
Rafa points out that in recent months he has gone through different phases.
“The last time I spoke in public I didn’t know I had to have surgery,” Nadal told Movistar Plus+.
“Actually, I had problems since a year and a half ago when I injured my ribs playing against Alcaraz in Indian Wells, although in between I won another Roland Garros.
“Sometimes the results make up for the day-to-day pain.”
The pain hasn’t left him but now it’s manageable.
“Sometimes my foot doesn’t let me live in peace, it’s hard for me to walk down the stairs, and that happens sometimes,” Nadal said.
“If it hurts it’s difficult to be happy, it changes my character when it hurts more than it should.”
Now: his current physical state allows him to open a door that has been looming ever larger year-by-year… the door to retirement.
“I said that possibly 2024 will be my last year,” Nadal continued. “I stand by that, but I can’t confirm it 100%.
“I think there’s a good chance that it will be, because I know how my body is but how I’ll be in four months, I don’t know. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing in 2024, because it will change completely depending on what my objectives .
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“If I don’t recover, that’s one thing, if I can compete at a level that excites me, that’s another…
“My hope is, by mid-November, to know how I am physically. These are the deadlines I have set for myself”.
