A few days after Rafa’s famous announcement concerning his upcoming retirement, Toni Nadal, via his Instagram account, decided to speak out as rarely by publishing a long and touching letter.
And after talking about the promise kept by his nephew, the most famous uncle on the circuit tried to express in words what he felt about him after all these years spent at his side.
“Today, a few days later, as I find myself entrusted with the impossible task of writing down my feelings on the occasion of his farewell, my mind is filled with nostalgic images, memories, moments lived and shared with alongside Rafael. What he has meant to me since his beginnings in tennis, when I saw him, racket in hand, lurking around the Manacor Tennis Club impatiently waiting for his turn to enter the court and train with me, down to his last racquets, those that I looked at with a certain concern when I saw that neither his shots nor his legs responded with the same freshness and the same strength of yesteryear, I certainly cannot express it in words . Everything that happened between those distant years and the current end point, from his first victories in junior and children’s tournaments which foreshadowed what was to come, to his last great triumphs in Melbourne and Paris, is the manifestation of an almost perfect dream. »
Published on Friday October 25, 2024 at 5:37 p.m.
