Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Laver Cup due to personal reasons after he helped Roger Federer bring the curtain down on his career.
Read >> “Situations a little more complicated than usual at home. The 410year-old was permitted to bend the rules of the competition he himself co-created to participate.
Laver Cup 2022: Rafael Nadal will be replaced by Cameron Norrie in Team Europe after the Spaniard withdrew due to personal reasons post his doubles match ...
1 ranking at the US Open but fell short when he was beaten by Tiafoe in the fourth round. The Spaniard teamed up with Federer for a doubles match for Team Europe. The duo, however, went down 4-6, 6-2, 11-9 in two hours and 13 minutes to Team World’s Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe as Federer drew curtains on an epochal career.
Rafa Nadal has pulled out of the remainder of the Laver Cup due to personal reasons after partnering friend and rival Roger Federer in a doubles match that ...
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5:45PM IST - Here we go. First match of the day - Matteo Berrettini (Team Europe) vs Felix Auger-Aliassime (Team World).
Wide serve into the deuce court and Felix’s forehand return hits the net. Wide serve into the deuce court from Felix and forehand return from Berrettini lands into the net. Backhand slice into the net from the Italian - deuce. A 133mph body serve from Berrettini and Auger-Aliassime’s awkward backhand return lands into the alley. Body serve from the Canadian works nicely as Berrettini makes a mess of the backhand. Second serve, on the body, and Berrettini hits the backhand down the line wide. A running forehand into the net from FAA and it is a sixth set point for Berrettini who goes 12-11 up with the Canadian to serve. T serve from the man in red and Berrettini’s backhand lands into the net. Wide ace into the deuce court from Berrettini - 10-9 and a fourth set point with FAA serving. Wide serve into the deuce court from Berrettini and FAA’s forehand return down the line goes wide. Wide serve into the ad court from Berrettini, the Canadian gets the backhand crosscourt in, the Italian goes for forehand down the line but FAA hits a gorgeous forehand crosscourt pass to save another set point. Gritty stuff from FAA to hang in and get a shot deep into the backhand corner of the Italian who hit the return into the net - 5-all.
LONDON: Rafa Nadal has pulled out of the remainder of the Laver Cup due to personal reasons after partnering friend and rival Roger Federer in a doubles ...
"Rafael Nadal withdrew for personal reasons. Pictures and videos of Federer and Nadal - who shared one of the sport's most enthralling rivalries - sitting on a chair and crying after combining for Team Europe in a doubles defeat at London's O2 Arena on Friday (Sep 23) went viral on social media. LONDON: Rafa Nadal has pulled out of the remainder of the Laver Cup due to personal reasons after partnering friend and rival Roger Federer in a doubles match that brought down the curtain on the Swiss great's glittering tennis carer.
In the small hours of the morning in a windowless subterranean room by the Thames in London, Roger Federer admitted to a fear – that he might not have been ...
And many of them are people I owe a massive vote of thanks to, so it’s appropriate to say that in these circumstances whether I’m comfortable or not.” “It was done weeks ago,” he explained to an impressive collection of the world’s tennis media who had gathered for the fifth staging of the Laver Cup. Basel was out, and the obvious route was simply to announce that his career was over. Hence the countdown to Friday’s emotional doubles, which Federer had made clear would be his final formal match, regardless of the result or how well he pulled up from the effort. I was afraid I wouldn’t be, but after the first game [of Friday’s doubles] I realized I’d be OK and I calmed down. “Several weeks ago, I said to Tony [his manager, Tony Godsick], ‘It’s 50:50 that I’ll be ready for the Laver Cup.’ Then a bit I said it was 60:40, then 70:30.
Rafael Nadal withdrew from the Laver Cup on Saturday for personal reasons, his press spokesman confirmed to ESPN.
And in that sense, I've been able to come here, which for me was the most important thing." "As a result, well, I've had to deal with all that, which is a different pressure to the one you're used to in your professional life. "I'm not good, I'm not good," Nadal said.