“I didn’t play like I trained.” Rafa Nadal did not mince his words during his defeat against Van De Zandschulp by a double 6-4 in the quarter-final of the Davis Cup which is being played in Malaga.
In addition, he suggested that a hypothetical semi-final would not be played given his level of competition. A message to David Ferrer who, everything suggests that he placed Nadal in the first round as a lesser evil and bet everything on Alcaraz, who won his match, and on a doubles duel where Nadal would have been more useful to Marcel Granollers than in Murcian.
Spain risked the Davis Cup for Rafa Nadal and came out on top. The best athlete of all time went a little over a year without performing at his best in competitions where no one was present.
