Toni Nadal not ready to coach again:'It's difficult to train young players'
Toni Nadal doesn't feel ready to start coaching another player as he did with Rafael Nadal. Speaking to a Bulgarian TV, Toni said that today the younger guys's mentality is different than the past. They are less humble, claimed Toni. 'The situation is very different. He is my nephew and I could tell him everything - for example today we will train not 1 hour but 2 or 3 hours. Today it's very difficult to train the young players. You have to say them only good things. In the Academy (RNA), if I tell a player that he is not good and that's why he makes errors - an angry father will come to me and scold me. I could always tell the truth to Rafael. And that's why we were so strong!'
Asked if it's true that Rafa was born with a kind of illness and that tennis helped him to overcome it, Toni replied: 'That's definitely not true. There is a small bone, in the leg from birth, which is nothing. The only thing that it makes is that it hurts. Nothing else. He is healthy and has always been.'
Comparing Dimitrov and Federer's games, Toni said: 'Grigor hesitates to hit, the ball bounces, he stops and then hits. With Federer the ball bounces and he hits is straightaway. Grigor needs to overcome this pause.'
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from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2ToveRO
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