“Many doctors said that Nadal would not have a great career in tennis”

Rafa Nadal has had to deal with numerous injuries during his professional career, which has caused the Balearic to not be able to play some great events of the calendar and even having to face several months of hiatus to recover.

In statements collected by the Tennis World USA portal, the French doctor Ben Illouz appreciated how Nadal copes with these discomforts and how he continues to play despite it. “Sometimes there are people who seem to have no pain at all. There are people in the sport who, on a scale of one to 10, say they have a degree of pain three while for Nadal it is a seven. Nadal the someone who play with inflammations to the end and does not alert his body “

Illouz highlights the stress fractures that Nadal suffered on his foot in his first years of career. “That's why we saw Nadal first leave Roland Garros for a stress fracture in the sole of his foot. It's the same problem he had to deal with in various tournaments when he was young. Stress fractures don't happen because of chance. Many try to force a little and if it hurts, they stop. But Nadal played with foot pain in 2003 and later. When you look at Nadal you see that he works hard. It activates so much energy that it exceeds normal strength and intensity limits. “

The doctor believes that Nadal should listen more to his body and highlights the mental strength of the Balearic despite the opinion of many doctors who thought he could not make a career in tennis. “Nadal has to study his body on a daily basis. There is a team that is focused on the concepts that we see in physical therapy in sports. Sometimes, at the press conferences after the games, he has cramps in his chair. Despite his extensive career, he continues to play at the highest level and manage his games more economically and choose to play fewer tournaments. He has great mental strength. Many doctors told him that he would not have a great tennis career because of his injuries but, nevertheless, Nadal has shown them that they were wrong. “