I was almost down and out before Roland Garros triumph, says Nadal
Rafael Nadal celebrates with the trophy after his final match against Dominic Thiem at the French Open in Roland Garros June 9, 2019. — Reuters pic
Nadal is now just two behind Roger Federer’s all-time record of 20 majors and three ahead of Novak Djokovic who was knocked out by Thiem in the semi-finals. “I was too negative. After Madrid and Barcelona, I was thinking about what I needed to do. I could stop for a while and recover or change my attitude and recover.”
“This is a very satisfying victory. In 2018, I only played nine events and finished just seven of them,” he added. “Mentally, I lost a little bit of that energy, because I had too many issues in a row. It is tough when you receive one after another, and then sometimes you are groggy,” he explained.
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