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Rafael Nadal: "I feel very sorry for Zverev, if you are a human, you should feel very sorry for your colleague" The Spaniard talked to the press after his opponent Alexander Zverev was forced to retire from the Roland Garros semi-finals with an ankle injury "Of course, it's not easy and beautiful to talk after what happened to Zverev. Only thing that I can say is I hope he's not too bad. Hopefully it's just the normal thing when you turn your ankle, and hopefully nothing is broken. That's what everybody hopes, and I was with Sascha, it looks that they need to keep checking. I am not the one who says anything. If he wants to say, what it is, it's his decision. I can't talk for him. It have been a very, very tough match. I think he started the match playing amazing. I know how much it means to him, fight to win his first Grand Slam. We are colleagues, we have been practicing together a lot of times. And see a colleague on the tour like this, even if for me it's a dream be in the final of Roland Garros, of course that way is not the way that we want it to be. Feels very sorry for, if you are human, you should feel very sorry for a colleague". On playing under the roof today "The condition has been the slowest condition I played since long time ago here, because it was very humid this afternoon. The ball was super big and difficult to create a spin on the ball. So I think the conditions were not the ideal for me this afternoon or the way that I like to play normally here. That's why I was not able to create the damage that I wanted over him. By the way, he started the match playing amazing, honestly. Have been a miracle that first set. But I was there fighting and trying to find solutions all the time. But honestly under these conditions -- well, when Sascha is playing well in any conditions, he's an amazing player. Under these conditions, even was more difficult for me to put him away from the court. He was able to recover well from that position. I was not able to push him back. He was able to hit a clean ball all the time, so was surviving, a lot of surviving moments during that match". On his health issues "Physically I'm okay. Normally my problem is not the physical performance, no. Of course today the conditions have been very hot, super humid. You know, I know from experience that when these conditions happen, I suffer a little bit more in terms of physical. It happened to me in Australia against Shapo. Today was different. Not that crazy but even like this I was suffering. Have been a lot of up-and-downs during the match, but a good level of tennis with great points. But of course when the ball is slow, conditions are very heavy with big humidity, then physically you suffer more than with dry conditions". On psychological challenges "I talk enough about that after Rome. My mind didn't change. As I said, I explained everything going through my mind after Rome, and nothing changed. At the same time, I was not very positive after that about my foot, but I was positive that I will be able to play here. And here I am. I played, I fought, I did all the things possible to give myself at least a chance to be where I am and I am happy of course to be able to give myself another chance to play on second Sunday here in the final of Roland Garros. So that means a lot to me. And all the sacrifices and all the things that I need to go through to try to keep playing, really make sense when you enjoy moments like I'm enjoying this tournament". Website BTU - Ukrainian Tennis - joins the fundraising to help internally displaced persons in Dnipropetrovsk Region
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