Rafael Nadal did not know if he could continue playing tennis after getting COVID-19

The tennis player Rafael Nadal could not have started his participation in the Australian Open on a better footing, sweeping his first opponent in three sets and leaving very good feelings with his level of technique and physical power. However, last December, when the man from Manacori contracted COVID-19 during his stay in Abu Dhabi, where he played his first tournament in half a year, the physical consequences of his infection even led him to think that perhaps he would have no choice but to announce his retirement.

As the athlete explained in conversation with the sports media Eurosport, his poor form was also closely related to the injuries he had suffered from previous months and the fact that he had not competed for a long time.

In any case, for the Balearic Islands it was evident that COVID-19 had taken its toll on his energy and had left him deeply fatigued, basically unable to get out of bed for the first week of convalescence.

“A month and a half ago I didn’t know if I would play tennis again at a professional level due to several factors, including the problems I had with my foot and the COVID-19“, Nadal, of 35 years and double vaccinated.

“Sometimes I don’t know if the tiredness is due to the six months that I was without competing or to the coronavirus. But I spent four days in bed and three more physically destroyed. On the ninth or tenth day I tested negative and went back to training“, he added in his interview.