"I've had too many problems this year. I have trouble stringing several matches well," said the Spaniard
Rafa Nadal, newly arrived in Shanghai after losing in the semifinals of the Beijing tournament against Marin Cilic of Serbia, said that for now it is easier to think of winning the Davis Cup final, "which in the year-end number one . "The Davis Cup final is practically my main goal. Is to hand if things are done right and what is more I can focus now, "said the world number two, that since he has set foot in China, first in Beijing and Shanghai now has sparked a craze among the fans who follow him unconditionally and mass.
In fact, no more land in Shanghai was surrounded by several bodyguards before the public furor at the airport. "This one makes me feel important," he joked. Then in his first training in Qi Zhong Stadium, on track five, where he shared the player blows with China's Mao-Xin Gong, gathered nearly 700 spectators, rather than the party that was played at the same time on center court between the Russians Igor Kunitsyn and Igor Andreev.
Nadal has passed "a difficult year," as he himself acknowledged Monday, but will "do everything possible" to try to win tournaments you have left the Shanghai Masters 1000 and Paris-Bercy and the Masters Cup in London before to face the Czech Republic in Barcelona in the Davis Cup final. "I've had too many problems this year. I have trouble stringing several good games, but for now I'm at high level," Roddick said of Manacor.
The Spanish want to return to the Chinese public affection that he showed last year at the Olympics and last week in Beijing, where he suffered slightly in the abdominal discomfort and was unable to reach the final. "I need to take to the track without fear of getting hurt, out thinking only of my game, thinking only of winning, "said Rafa, who is aware however that at present can not" train or force more than necessary. "" The wound is closed and I could play quite normally the last week, but still has to go picking flexibility over time, "he said. A separate Nadal currently just over 2,000 points of Federer in the ATP ranking, so it does not arise reach you before the end of the year." There try to be number two if I can, but health is more complex, valued.
Rafa, who is without getting a title since his victory over Djokovic in the final in Rome, acknowledged that he has been "somewhat hobbled from the Miami tournament, but now has become" cool ". "I need to play without problems several weeks. When you can pass that barrier semifinals, winning a tournament or a game that really complicated, I think confidence will return and all that now seems dark I shall see things more clearly, "said Spanish tennis player.