You kidding? He’s many major knee surgeries, wrist surgeries, foot problems and back problems requiring him to withdraw from numerous Grand Slams and cost him a final against Wawrinka where he still played it out despite being badly hampered. And that’s not including a genial defect in his feet. He carefully needs to manage his body to get through tournaments. This not Tomic trying to pull a sickie because he’s losing, this is a man with an injury list the size of your leg and working through it best he can. Jesus. If there’s anyone that has earnt the respest of playing injured it’s him.
Might seem to you like they playing dead…moments in any game you can have flat spots ect. only the champions can dig deep against adversity and come up trumps.
FCKN LOL. He pulls out so he can keep playing tennis and MANAGE his absolutley shot body, you want him to play every secondary ATP title to risk his body? Ridiculous. I’m sorry but if he’s lost your respect then you have very little idea about tennis, I’m guessing a very casual fan who watches very little tennis outside of the Australian Open and maybe another slam here or there.
Nadal has lost absolutely zero respect. He pulls out of tournaments because his body literally can’t cope with the workload, he pulls out of Slams because his body has to be carefully MANAGED otherwise he’d have been finished years ago. He plays the most physically grinding game in history and carries probably the most injuries I’ve ever seen a man carry but still managing to win the second most Slams in history. The guy is an all time great.