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Tennis: "Difficult to draw a lot of positive things" loose Nadal after his disappointment with Coric

2022-08-18T06:29:25.289Z


Eliminated as soon as he entered the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati, Nadal, beaten by Coric (7-6/4-6/6-3), missed his return before the US Open.


"I have to improve, I have to train, I need days

," agreed Rafael Nadal, eliminated as soon as he entered the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati on Wednesday by Croatian Borna Coric, 152nd in the world, for his missed return after six weeks of absence.

“It's difficult to take a lot of positive things from this meeting.

It's the truth”

, recognized the Spaniard, world N.3, beaten 7-6 (11/9) 4-6, 6-3 in almost three hours.

“I had my chances.

In the tie-break, I had two set points which I misplayed.

And then I had a bad third set.

That's all

," he said again.

The record holder for the number of Grand Slams won (22) since his coronations at the Australian Open and Roland-Garros this year, had not played since July 6 due to an abdominal tear, which had then forced to forfeit before his semi-final at Wimbledon.

“Coming back like that, after a difficult period, is something that is easy to accept.

And if we can win the first game, things get better.

But that was not the case today.

It is obvious that I was not ready enough, ”

he said.

“The main thing for me is to stay healthy.

It's a tough injury to deal with, to be honest.

A tear in the abdomen, you don't know when it's over

,” he explained.

If he was not in the right rhythm and was even often overtaken in the exchanges, the 36-year-old Mallorcan did not seem to suffer from the abdomen.

But it is not for all that certain that it is more than a bad memory.

“When you have a scar, it doesn't have enough flexibility, so you feel it.

But we don't know if we feel it because of that or if it's because something is not right.

I will probably do some tests, to make sure everything is going the way I want

it to be ,” he said.

Nadal, who has 12 days left to prepare for the US Open (August 29-September 11), however, wants to be

"positive"

.

“I was able to have a week of training here, doing better and better every day, much better than the way I played today, to be honest.

I have to move forward mentally, I know the way.

I have to start getting into Grand Slam mode

,” he concluded.

Source: lefigaro

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