MADRID, 15 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal has assured that he is currently “not” thinking about his “retirement”, after the German Alexander Zverev thought that he would surely retire after Roland Garros, and has stated that he is only focused on trying to have “a great 2023”. and in winning titles.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen in six months. I have a very good relationship with Zverev, but I don’t want to confess something like that to him. The reality is that I’m here to play tennis, try to have a great 2023, fight for everything I’ve struggled throughout my career, and I don’t think about my retirement,” he said before his first-round match against Britain’s Jack Draper at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season.
In an interview with Eurosport, Zverev predicted that the Spaniard would retire after the ‘big’ Parisian, who has already won fourteen times. “Unfortunately Rafael Nadal will retire after Roland Garros. I don’t want it to happen, but I think he will have a great tournament, potentially win it and say goodbye,” he said.
The man from Manacor, 37, was upset with being asked at every press conference when he will leave professional tennis. “You think about it week after week because that’s how they show me at every press conference. But I’ll answer the same thing every time they ask me,” he said, a 22-time Grand Slam winner.