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“I think that I go through a process of adaptation,” said Nadal. “I have played a couple of tournaments before where I have played really well. In Monte-Carlo and Barcelona, you have the feeling that you are in control of the situation. Here, it's different. It takes you time to adapt to how the ball bounces and flies".
“Day by day I keep improving. I have better feelings. I'm happy to be back here. It's always special to play at home. It's a very, very special moment, a very special occasion for me to be able to play here.”
“I don't think that I am superior to the other players [on clay],” said Nadal. “Maybe some tournaments have been better than others, but that doesn't guarantee that in the future I'm going to be better than my opponents.
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16:02 PHOTOS/VIDEO: Rafael Nadal's practice at Mutua Madrid Open, 7 May 2018 |
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13:59 PHOTOS/VIDEO: Rafael Nadal's practice with Grigor Dimitrov at Mutua Madrid Open, 6 May 2018 |
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Sam Stosur has snapped a three-match losing streak against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach the second round in Madrid,…
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Ajla Tomljanovic loses to in-form Belgian Elise Mertens in the final of the Rabat Grand Prix in Morocco.
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15:32 PHOTOS/VIDEO: Rafael Nadal's practice at Mutua Madrid Open, 5 May 2018 |
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10:19 PHOTOS/VIDEO: Rafael Nadal at the Players Party in Madrid, 4 May 2018 |
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20:22 PHOTOS/VIDEO: Rafael Nadal's practice with Dominic Thiem at Mutua Madrid Open, 4 May 2018 |
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12:24 PHOTOS/VIDEO: Rafael Nadal at the Telefonica event in Madrid, 4 May 2018 |
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22:52 PHOTOS/VIDEO: Rafael Nadal visited the football match between Atletico Madrid and Arsenal at Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid, 3 May 2018 |
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MADRID (EPA).- Rafael Nadal, the world's top-ranked player, said in an interview with EFE here Thursday that despite a torrid start to his clay-court campaign it was unlikely he would be able to overcome an injury hiatus earlier in the season and finish as tennis' year-end No. 1 for the fifth time.
Nadal made his remarks in the Spanish capital ahead of the start of next week's Madrid Open, where he will try to win a third straight clay-court tournament in 2018.
"I've given away (due to injuries) three months of the year," Nadal said, referring to his time away from the ATP World Tour from late January, when he retired in the fifth set of his quarter-final match against Croatia's Marin Cilic at the Australian Open due to a hip injury, until the start of the Monte-Carlo Masters in mid-April.
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Ajla Tomljanovic is through to the last four at the WTA tournament in Rabat, Morocco while Sam Stosur…
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