Après un tournoi de Madrid prometteur, où il a remporté trois matchs et où il a notamment battu Alex De Minaur, Rafael Nadal peut enchaîner et jouer cette semaine le Masters 1000 de Rome. Deux ans après son élimination, face à Denis Shapovalov, le Taureau de Manacor, vainqueur à huit reprises dans la capitale italienne, a remporté son premier tour en battant difficilement Zizou Bergs, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Breaké à deux reprises dans la première manche, Rafa a haussé son niveau dans les deux autres sets pour ne plus perdre un jeu de service, sauvant tout de même trois balles de break importantes à 3-2 dans la dernière manche. Malgré 32 fautes directes pour 23 coups gagnants, Nadal pourra vraiment se tester contre Hubert Hurkacz. Rafael Nadal a décidé de tout donner lors de son prochain match : "J'ai Roland Garros dans seulement deux semaines et demie, donc je dois me prouver que si je suis capable de pousser mon corps jusqu'à la limite, je dois pousser pour me sentir prêt pour ce qui s'en vient. Je dois perdre cette peur."
Video : @InteBNLdItalia
Video : @InteBNLdItalia
Category
🥇
SportTranscription
00:00I have Roland-Garros in in just two weeks and a half so arrive a moment that
00:13I need to prove myself if I am able to to to push my body the limit that I need
00:21to to push to to feel myself ready for what's what's coming I'm not talking
00:27about Roland-Garros, I'm talking about the next match so I need to
00:31lose this fear matches like today help some moments I was moving faster
00:36some moments not I need to get used to to that to take that risk but it's a
00:44moment to make that happen and if something wrong happens we're gonna
00:47accept it but that's the moment moment to push and I feel more ready to try it
00:53than before. What is the dominant feeling after that that game if the
01:00frustration or deception because like you said you don't play well or is
01:04something positive because you find a way to be able to win the game? No I say
01:11it like a very positive day even if I don't play it I didn't play well that
01:16for me was a little bit in some way surprising in another hand not
01:20surprising because I didn't play much tennis for almost two years so I need
01:25to accept that my my level it's a little bit more on and off it's not like used
01:30to be that was very stable everything I need to find this stability again and
01:36matches like today helps no I felt myself before the match ready to play at
01:42at the good level of tennis because I am feeling the ball much better on the
01:46practice session than what I what I felt in Barcelona and in Madrid so I
01:52feel myself closer to to show something probably much more positive that what I
02:00showed since the day of today then I need to I need to I need to do it so
02:05that's a different story but I feel myself closer so that's that's why I was
02:10on the on court even without playing well but telling myself okay I need to
02:15go through and explore the positive the option that I can do it much better the
02:20next day because my feelings on the practice are much better than than what
02:25I had that the level that I showed today on court so maybe in two days I didn't I
02:31will not play well that's true and that's a possibility but I hope to be
02:37able to to play much better than today and to start thinking in another way so
02:43let's see I mean I am excited with the victory that's give me the chance to
02:49keep going and I am very happy for that