Rafael Nadal may play for two or three more years - Uncle Toni
In an interview to Cinco Dias El Pais, Rafael Nadal's uncle Toni commented on the Spanish player's co-operation with Carlos Moya and his future in tennis. Toni said: "I see him well. The most important thing is that they appreciate and respect each other, which is something very necessary. And that Rafael wants to keep playing, despite his injuries. That will be the key. Until when, who knows. Maybe two or three more years. What I say is that Rafael is not a tennis player, he is an injured person who plays tennis, and that's very difficult."
For Toni, having proper work ethics has always been the key: "I think that everything in this life has something in common, and what's good in a thing is usually good for all the other things. I coached Rafael so that he was a good tennis player, but if I trained him for another thing I think I would have used the same methods and principles. Tennis has a lot in common with a company. You are playing every week because you win a tournament and you start from zero again. You end up as No. 1 a year and nothing guarantees you continuing to do well the following season. This is what happens in a company, that lives with this consistent necessity of not stopping and improving. The only thing needed is the effort and the training."
Toni concluded: "Not everything is achievable, for many goals we set ourselves. I could not be a tennis champion although I want to. The only thing that I can do is what depends on me, which is improving. What does not depend by me, what I cannot control of, I do not speak. Federer's serve, Djokovic's return, do not depend on me. You have to stay in a world where the majority of things depend on yourself, so that, within the possible, everything is our responsibility."
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