Only a few weeks left until Rafa Nadal said goodbye to the racket during the Davis Cup final in Malaga.
Since the announcement of his retirement, a multitude of tennis personalities have visited the winner of 22 major tournaments.
Many facets can be highlighted in the Balearic Islands, but there is one that stands out from the others: its competitiveness.
In an interview with the Uruguayan newspaper ‘El País’, the former tennis player Pablo Cuevas He told an anecdote with Rafa which reflects his thirst to win.
“The first time we went to practice together was in Hamburg and I won a set. From there, He invited me to train about 25 times in six months.to win sets and how to make myself understand that it was a coincidence“, recalled the Uruguayan.
A very different attitude from the one I saw in Federer: “Nothing to do with what was happening with Roger “(Federer), who could play him 10 sets, win all 10 and he was training for something else, was not at all interested in the result.”
“Rafa, on the other hand, constantly trained this competitive aspect: no matter how he hits that day in training, the number one goal was to win even if I was working on something else,” he concluded.
