Like Roger, Like Rafa
Tennis|Jul/Aug 2018

Why Rafael Nadal should also skip part of the season

Nina Pantic
Like Roger, Like Rafa

There are tournaments that I can’t imagine missing on purpose, because [they are] tournaments that I love to play,” Rafael Nadal said this April. “I don’t see myself missing Wimbledon on purpose, or the US Open, or the Australian Open or Rome.”

As a teenager, Nadal said Wimbledon is the tournament he wanted to win the most. He’s won it twice, and despite having not gone beyond the fourth round of the grass-court Grand Slam since 2011, he’ll give everything he has to try and reclaim the title. But while Wimbledon captures

Nadal’s heart and mind, his body and his career will thank him for reconsidering his participation at not only the All England Club, but all grass events. With Nadal, now 32, it’s not a matter of if he will be injured again, but when.

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