the announcement at the press conference. «2024 is my last year»- Corriere.it

Not just the forfeit at Roland Garrosbut also another announcement: 2024 will most likely be the last year of my career. The calling of a press conference at his home, at the Rafa Nadal Academy, already hid the news of his absence in a tournament won 14 times in his career. Rafa’s speech, however, was deeper, and in a voice as full of sadness as awareness. The injury I suffered in Australia didn’t evolve as we expected – he says -. Roland Garros has become an impossible goal to achieve. After so many years (since 2005 he had never missed an edition, ed), he won’t be able to be in Paris.

Then we expand on the long term: In recent years, even if the results have been top-level, my daily life has been at a very low level. In terms of daily work, the post-pandemic period was very difficult. I was able to win, but I didn’t experience the training and the competition in the right way. I need to stop, I don’t know for how long: it could be a month, it could be two, it could be three, even if I’d like to play Davis Cup at the end of the year. I can’t predict the future, the one in which I believe the right thing to do for my person to stop.

Not a definitive stop, even if from today there is an end of career date: My ambition is to stop to have an opportunity to have fun next year, which will most likely be the last on the tour. I would like to say goodbye to all the tournaments that have been important to my career, including the Olympic one, being competitive and having fun.