The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal announced his retirement from tennis and did so in the Davis Cup which was held in Malaga. The Spanish team made up of Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz faced the Netherlands.
Rafa Nadal He fell in his last ball against the Netherlands, but now he becomes the legend of white sport. In his farewell match, Rafael Nadal faced Van de Zandschulp in the singles round, however, the victory went to the Dutchman who took the game with scores of 6-4.
For his part, one of his greatest rivals, the Swiss former tennis player Roger Federer He recently published a farewell letter. The Swiss hottie expressed his admiration for the Spanish tennis player.
“You won me over… a lot. More than I managed to beat you,” the former Swiss tennis player begins by stating when referring to the Spanish. Federer acknowledges that on clay, Nadal was almost unbeatable: “I felt like I was entering your inner courtyard.”
The words of goodbye Federer to Rafa They show admiration for a rival who also made the Swiss better: “You made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to stay firm.” And he adds: “You made me reimagine my game”
Federer is very grateful that the manacorí was present at the Laver Cup in 2022the Swiss’s last match: “It meant everything to me that you were there by my side, not as my rival, but as my doubles partner.”
Throughout these two decades, both faced each other on 40 occasions and ended up forging a solid friendship, which was immortalized in the game in which they participated as teammates and not as rivals in 2022, during the Makes Cup de Londonon the occasion of the Swiss farewell.
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