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Rafael Nadal talked to the press during Media Day in MadridRafael Nadal: "It’s very unfair to forbid Russians to play at Wimbledon, but what happens in our game doesn't have any importance when we see people dying and suffering in Ukraine" On his recovery and upcoming match at Mutua Madrid Open - I'm fine. Talking about injury, I'm recovered. I feel good. Talking about my tennis game and preparations, well, it's completely different story. Anyone who has broken a rib knows how limiting it is, very painful, especially the first weeks. I wasn't able to do anything with a lot of difficulties even to fall asleep even because of the pain, but after that, little by little I was able to go a little bit to the gym. I tried not to make a lot of movements, but try to recover as fast as possible. It's been a period that I haven't been able to do a lot of things. So as you can imagine, it's been six weeks of which I started to train two weeks ago. Well, first week I was just training half an hour per day, and very, very gently, very softly, and, well, doesn't come. But I have a lot of joy to come here again. I'm very happy, excited. We still have a couple of days where -- today is Sunday? Yeah, Sunday. I still have Monday and Tuesday to be able to recover. I haven't been able to practice any shot. Perhaps the serve. I started to serve practically here in Madrid, day before I came here maybe. And before that, I haven't been able to practice my serve a single time. But, you know, as I said, I wasn't capable of practicing any shot. Serve was maybe the last shot maybe, yeah, but regarding the shots, more or less all the same. >>> Marta Kostyuk: "Paula Badosa is not the only one who feels this way. They just do not understand how serious this whole situation is" On Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players - I think it's very unfair of my Russian tennis mates, my colleagues. In that sense it's not their fault what's happening in this moment with the war. In that sense, well, you know, talking about colleagues, I don't know what to say. I'm sorry for them. I wish it was not this way, but at the end of the day we know that this is what we have. From there onwards we will see what happens. Let's see what happens in the next weeks, if the players will take some kind of decision in that regard. In that sense, well, there is one thing that's negative, you know, there are things that are clear. When the government imposes some restrictions, you just have to follow them. In that case, the government gave a recommendation, and Wimbledon just took their decision, the more drastic position that they could take without taking into account -- the government didn't force them to do it. So that makes that, you know, for our games, that we are in the organization, the ATP, of tennis players and tournaments, we are clear that the Grand Slams are out of all of it. But at the end of the day, it's not less true that we are ATP, are the tournament that have the most points, right? They are the most important. The 2,000 points, whenever we go to the Grand Slams, they are really important and we have to go to those tournaments. So we will have to see the measures that we take, and it's very unfair thing for them, for sure. But unfortunately, I would say that in this moment, you know, being a very complicated situation for those Russian players, you know, there is a lot of things happening, Russia and Ukraine, and at the end of the day, what happens in our game is, you know, it doesn't have any importance when we can see so many people dying and suffering and seeing the bad situation they are having in Ukraine, very serious. Website BTU - Ukrainian Tennis - joins the fundraising to help internally displaced persons in Dnipropetrovsk Region
You can support those, who have been forced to flee their homes due to the Russian military aggression, with a donation via PayPal? Источник: btu.org.ua Фото: Getty Images. |
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