Rafael Nadal says he needs to improve at the Wimbledon Championships – Tennis News
World number two, Rafael Nadal of Spain, won his first round match against Brazil’s inferior-ranked player, Thomaz Bellucci, in straight sets but his performance was not at a level which can help him to win his third title at the
Wimbledon Championships.
The Spaniard lost his serve twice in the first four games of the match to go down 0-4 but bounced back afterwards to level the score at 4-4 and went on to win the opener 7-6(0). The Spaniard did not face much resistance in the
rest of the proceedings and sealed the next two ones 6-2, 6-3.
However, the slow start has rung alarm bells in Nadal’s camp and the Spaniard accepted that he will have to improve the standard of his game in order to win tougher matches.
While giving an interview to the media people, Rafa said, “I have to improve a lot. I had more mistakes than usual and I was very lucky to come back from being 4-0 down in the beginning. I played just two matches
on grass before Wimbledon. I need time. So that was an important victory. I arrived having played almost every match possible in the last couple of months.”
The King of clay defeated the reigning world number one, Novak Djokovic, to capture his record breaking seventh Roland Garros title at the start of this month. The Spaniard did not take any break and went straight to Halle, Germany
to participate in the Gerry Weber Open and have some practice on the grass courts. However, he was surprised by Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber in the quarter-finals. This meant that Nadal was able to play just two matches at the fastest surface before the
third Grand Slam of the season.
The Spaniard added, “The transition to grass is an aggressive one and sometimes playing as much as I did the last couple of months, you start to have physical troubles so you cannot practice as much as you would like.”
Nadal is bidding to become the second player to win back to back titles at the French Open and Wimbledon Championships for the third time in his career.
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