Rafael Nadal: 'I played one of my worst matches on clay in 14 years'
Rafael Nadal showed his sportsmanship following his straight-set set loss to Fabio Fognini in Monte Carlo. The Spaniard said: "Vision is clear. I played a very bad game against a good player, so in that situation, you have to lose. That's what I did this afternoon. It was a bad feeling. Was a tough day and was a difficult opponent. I am coming from low moments in terms of injuries, and in terms of the mental side have been not easy to accept all the things that have been going on during the last times. So just was this kind of day that everything was wrong. I probably played one of the worst matches on clay in 14 years. So when that happens, you have to lose. And today I deserve to lose because I played against a player that was better than me today."
Asked if there were too many expectations on him considering that he was coming back from an injury, Nadal replied: "What I expected, I always expected the best. Then you have to be ready to accept the negative things, and today was a negative day. And that's it. No, that's all. No, no, just opportunity lost in a very important event for me. I'm sad for that, of course. But it's true that even if that was a good chance for me to start the clay court season in a perfect way, have been, yeah, a bad day. That's all. No, no, is difficult to explain more. We can talk about technical or tactical things, but is kind of day that feeling is not there at all. When this kind of stuff happens, is difficult to find explanation for the rest of stuff."
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2KTsqfY
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