While all tennis fans anxiously wait to see Nadal at Roland Garros, a former colleague attacks the Spaniard
If you want, just call it ‘a voice out of the chorus’. A way to read things from another perspective, using another point of view, which is little influenced by the emotion of the event, by the suggestion that this would bring into play if it actually occurred.
It is not unusual, when talking about great champions and events eagerly awaited by the general public, to see alternative theories on the subject. It is the strength of dialectics, of comparison, of saying what you think. The authoritativeness of the source, then, necessarily imposes respect for the words that – we are certain – someone will use to launch a harsh attack on the former player. Who, half seriously and half jokingly (and having the advantage of knowing the protagonist of his invective very well) said his opinion on the fact that Rafa Nadal could be ready to play at Roland Garros.
As you know, in reality we certainly don’t know anything yet. The champion does not go too far on the subject, not being able to be sure that his physique, tormented by so many ailments, will allow him to undertake what promises to be immense efforts. Especially because they are spread over the distance of 5 sets.
Roddick doesn’t believe Nadal: “He always says that, then…”
Well Andy Roddick, the American champion who triumphed at the 2003 US Open, has a precise idea about it. Speaking on his weekly podcast ‘Served With Andy Roddick’, the Omaha native launched some provocations on what he said were some Rafa Nadal’s superficial statements regarding the alleged doubts about his participation in the Parisian Slam.
“At the start of the Madrid tournament, Rafa said something like ‘Let’s see how I feel, how I am physically now, I don’t know what I have, I don’t know if I will play at Roland Garros…’ I tend not to believe it. I think Rafa is a master of under-promising and over-delivering“, said Roddick, who certainly doesn’t mind saying exactly what he thinks.
“I remember that in his best period Nadal was about to play the first round of Roland Garros against someone who was in 70th place in the world rankings and in the press conference he said: ‘I don’t know how it will end, the match could also go his way’, I at that moment I thought: ‘No, probably not. He will probably go your way“Roddick added jokingly.
Jokes aside, Roddick admitted that he was moved to see the welcome and atmosphere experienced in the Spaniard’s duels against his opponents at the Caja Magica in Madrid.
