Rafael Nadal: I can’t say 100% that this is my last Roland Garros | TUDN Tennis

Spanish Rafa Nadal will face Zverev and who is a fourteen-time champion of the tournament, said this Saturday that there are “excellent options” that the publication Roland Garros which opens on Sunday is the last of his career, although not closing the door “100%.”

“There’s a good chance this will be my last Roland Garros“Nadal said at a press conference on the center court of the only grand slam which is played on clay. “I can’t say 100%, no one knows what could happen,” he said.

“I went through a long recovery process. I feel better now than I did a month ago. So I don’t want to close the door 100%,” he added.

Nadal insisted that he is now training “day after day,” monitoring his feelings on the court and the state of his body.

“Maybe in a month, or in four days, I’m telling you that it’s not worth it anymore, that it has to end. I don’t know,” he said in response to questions from journalists who flooded the press. room on the highway. Philippe Chatrier, the arena of the most iconic successes in his sports career.

The Mallorcan insisted on this idea, but wanted to change the situation, for example with the help of a tournament in Madrid, where at the end of April he finally ended his participation after falling in the 1/8 finals.

“Madrid was my last Madrid, this is 100%. Madrid is a tournament that I have already experienced, the circle is closed and remains closed,” he said.

Nadal said that after the “disaster” in Rome, where he lost in the second round to the Pole Hubert Hurkacz At 6-1 and 6-3, he feels this week of training in Paris is the “first” in a long time that he feels “free” to hit the ball.

“I thought for a long time about what movement to do and what not to do. It undermines you mentally,” he explained.