"No one goes back through his youth," sang Serge Reggiani. Then the noise of the announcement of the absence at Roland-Garros of Rafael Nadal, insufficiently recovered from an injury to the left hip, triggered a flood of nostalgia. Upset, the tennis world realized that it could not slow down time, that at almost 37 years old, with his burden of injuries, the Spaniard was close to the "sunset", as La Gazzetta dello Sport wrote.
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- Roland Garros Men's Singles
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He had emerged in the tournament in 2005, quickly felt at home. Corsair shorts and sleeveless T-shirt letting out biceps solid as steel cables, drag races, lasso forehands, pinball backhand and demonic lift, he upset codes and fashions, made the leaves of the chestnut trees of the Porte d'Auteuil shiver, blown on hats and boaters, let rush to Roland-Garros, and on the discipline, the intoxication of novelty. And, with the fury of victory that animated him, he had taken...
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