The 33-year-old Rafael Nadal hasn’t played a match on tour since winning his 85th title at the ATP 500 Acapulco Open in February. The two ATP Masters 1000 tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami, followed by the entire clay leg of the tour, have been cancelled owing to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Rafael Nadal started the season with a runner-up finish to an inspired Novak Djokovic at the inaugural ATP Cup. He then suffered a quarterfinal loss to Dominic Thiem at the Australian Open, which helped his Serbian rival reclaim the number one ranking.
Rafael Nadal talks about his first day of training in over two months
During the interview with La Voz de Galicia, Nadal talked about how his first day of training in over two months went. This is what La Voz posted on their Twitter handle regarding their interaction with the Spanish left-hander.
The English translation of the tweet reads:
In the said interview, Rafael Nadal had this to say about how he managed to finally get back to hitting on the court:
The world’s second-ranked player sounded happy that despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, life is limping back to normal.
Rafael Nadal also fondly recalled the time he visited a candy bar at the O Bao beach in Vigo in the year 2002, when he was playing Futures tournaments.
When asked what attributes of that little boy in Vigo he still retained, Rafael Nadal remarked:
What else has Rafael Nadal been up to during the COVID-19 pandemic?
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Rafael Nadal caught up with his good friend and rival Roger Federer in a video chat on Instagram. Unsurprisingly, the video garnered well over a million views.
Rafael Nadal has also received a video-chat request from mercurial Australian Nick Kyrgios, with whom the Spaniard has had a tempestuous relationship at best. It remains to be seen if Nadal does accede to that request and goes ahead with the interview, which has the potential to break the internet.
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