This Games people have come to celebrate him and he has treasured it.
Was this Rafael Nadal's final goodbye to Roland Garros after his doubles loss at the Olympics? No one knows for sure.
He and Alcaraz lost, both of them together with 26 singles Grand Slam titles, but Krajicek and Rajeev Ram have five doubles Slams between them and have both been to No.1. The Spaniards are superior athletes, the Americans, I asked Ram that on tour, when they’re talking about Nadal and Roland Garros and those 14 Slams, does it even make sense?“I don’t think you can find a better player or competitor, male, female, in their arena than he is here . In the history of sport.”
Nadal and his racket felt all night like Jimi Hendrix with an untuned guitar. His notes were off. Yet when Krajicek came out to serve for the match at 5-4, Nadal ran out and cleared the baseline of dust with his shoe. Till the end, he was a man of order. And, of course, of fight.
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