Rafa Nadal He said goodbye to tennis after Spain’s defeat against the Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup that is disputed these days in Málaga. A bitter goodbye after giving up his point before Botic Van de Zandschulp and remain on the verge of a comeback at the decisive point, in which Marcel Granollers and Carlos Alcaraz They couldn’t win in the doubles.
After that, Nadal received his last tribute on a tennis court, which with the passing of the hours has been gaining magnitude after what he experienced after midnight on Tuesday in eMartín Carpena. Cold and fleeting was the recognition that was far from the magnitude of the figure of the best Spanish athlete of all time. Something that has not gone unnoticed by anyone.
David Ferrercaptain of the Spanish team, took them on in El Partidazo de la COPE. “The farewell of someone as important as Rafa was lacking; very important people in his career and people who have been so important at the level of rivals and his team were missing. I missed those people. Things are as they are and you have to accept them. Rafa is going to have a lot of time where he is going to have tributes in big tournaments and have the farewell he deserves. “It was his last game, we won’t see him on the court again and I missed that.”
In the same sense, his uncle Toni, coach from the beginning until 2017, pointed in the same direction in the program The Stringer of the SER Chain. “No“He assumed with laughter after being asked if the tribute was up to par.
“It was obviously emotional with the support of the public. I like that there are images in these events, I would have liked to see images of Rafael winning the Davis Cup from Seville, from Rafael in the Madrid tournament, Roland Garros o Wimbledon, because this creates more excitement. I don’t mean to criticize anyone. I would have preferred something different, at the height of his career. I am grateful as a family member and as Rafael’s former coach for the detail they had and the good intention, then, well, I would have liked something else better. Nowadays you can do much more emotional acts by mixing music with images and Rafael is a guy whose images transmit passion and emotion. If they had done this, it would have been more up to par.”
2024-11-21 10:41:00