Rafael Nadal only lost his fourth match in 116 matches since winning on debut in 2005, going down 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 to world number four Alexander Zverev. New Delhi: Rafael Nadal couldn’t definitively say whether it would be his final appearance at the French Open after getting beatean in the first round in Paris on Monday. The record 14-time champion only lost his fourth match in 116 matches since winning on debut in 2005, going down 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 to world number four Alexander Zverev.
It was the Spaniard’s first defeat in the opening round of the tournament that came after he has battled multiple injuries throughout the year, having missed the Australian Open. He turns 38 on June 3 and in all likelyhood was his final appreance in his record-breaking French Open career. Though Nadal wasn;t immediately willing to confirm it.
“It is difficult for me to talk, I don’t know if it’s the last time I’ll be here in front of all of you,” he said. “Honestly, I am not sure. If it is, then you have been amazing.
The feelings I have today are difficult to describe in words. It is the place I love the most. “It’s hard to say about the future.
I am travelling with my family and I am having fun. The body is feeling better than it did two months ago,” Nadal said. “Maybe in two months I say it’s enough.
That is something I don’t feel yet.” Nadal confirmed his plans of competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris in two months “I hope to be back here for.
