Rafael Nadal unhappy from the attitude of ATP towards players’ health – Tennis News
Former world number one, Rafael Nadal, made a considerably satisfying comeback from a chronic knee injury at the VTR Open in Chile, last week. He was out of action for almost eight months; missing out on the US Open 2012, Barclays
ATP World Tour Finals 2012 and the Australian Open 2013. He couldn’t defend the Olympics Gold Medal at London Olympics as well and had to withdraw from the event in which he was supposed to carry the flag for Spain in the opening ceremony.
It is extremely sad to witness that the tough schedule of ATP is very tough on someone like Nadal who grinds his body in every point. There should be some leverage provided to the players who have created a landmark in the history
of tennis and the 26-year-old Spaniard is one of them; winning 11 Grand Slam titles including the record number of seven French Open titles. In the last eight years, he has failed just once in defending the Grand Slam title at the clay courts of Paris; undoubtedly
the King of Clay at the moment.
Nadal stated in an interview, “The ATP worries too little about the players. It should care more for them. For future generations it would be good to see a less aggressive tennis life. Not only because of what happens during your
career, but also because of what happens after your career, about how is your body when your tennis career is over. After ending the career it would be nice to be able to play football with friends or tennis but with this surface I don't think it's going to
be possible. ATP wants a sport which is faster but doesn't take into consideration a lot of strategy or great rallies.”
The Spaniard is not happy at the attitude of ATP and rightly so. The intensity of play is so much that players are unable to recover from day in day out matches with every week travelling to different locations to contest in separate
tournaments. Something has to be done to care about the players especially those who have laid a landmark in the history of tennis.
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