Things are not easy coming back from injuries, says Rafael Nadal
The Monte Carlo Masters marked the Rafael Nadal's comeback to the competition for the first time in a month as he had played his last match against Karen Khachanov in the Indian Wells quarter-finals. Analyzing his loss to Fabio Fognini, the Spaniard commented on his strong reaction when he was 6-4 5-0 down. Nadal won two games in a row and it seemed he could have made a remarkable comeback. "Just waiting for the end of the match, because I tried until that moment", said Nadal. "I tried in the 3-0, I tried in the 4-0, but then with the 5-0, 30-Love, is over, or 40-Love, it's over. Yeah, I was lucky to win that two games and to avoid the even worse score. But the final result is the same, so don't make a big difference.
I was not thinking much. Just thinking about how bad I played today and just to, at some point, understand the things. Problem sometimes is we are used to be very, very solid all the time, and even coming back from injuries, winning and winning and winning, and things are not easy, no? And after one year and a half, without having the chance to play tournaments in a row and a lot of stuff happened, is more difficult to hold sometimes the level every single day when you don't have confidence in tournaments in a row, no, or matches in a row. And that's what I needed probably to know that the half level, I have it. Even if I have been very competitive all the tournaments that I have been playing, all these stops create some nonstability in terms of you know that you have this 60 or 70% of your level, 100%. Then some days you have that 90 or 100, but this 70, you have it always. That's why I have been able to win all the things that I won, especially on clay. And today seems like I had during the previous days, but is always more difficult when all these things are going on."
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2Vg54F4
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