20-seat tennis Grand Slam winner Nadal has won five consecutive games this season and has not conceded a set, a significant improvement over last year, and although it is not predictable how far Nadal will go in this Australian Open, he has at least proved that he still has the desire to continue to compete for Grand Slams. After an easy second-round victory, Nadal also commented on his future.
In the past decade or so, the three giants represented by Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have loved and killed each other, achieved each other, and made great contributions to the leapfrog development of the men's tennis world, and now they are both tied for the first place in history with 20 Grand Slams, and who can get more Grand Slams when they retire is the most concerned topic in the industry.
Considering that Federer is 40 years and 5 months old, and by the time he returns to Wimbledon this year, he will be almost 41 years old, and Fei Tianwang appears on the field basically to fight for his feelings, and it is impossible to get a Grand Slam. The next grand slam history of the first person to compete only between Nadal and Djokovic, considering that Nadal has been vaccinated, can participate in the four grand slams, and Djokovic will hardly be able to participate in the Australian Open for the next three years, if he is not vaccinated, it is very likely that he will not qualify for the French Open and the US Open, so Nadal is expected to lead Djokovic in the total number of Grand Slams.
However, Nadal gave another view: "If I only get 1 more Grand Slam than Federer and Djokovic, I will not feel very happy, life will not change, that is to say, my future happiness in life will not be based on 1 more Grand Slam than them." 」 I'm going to push my body to the limits and enjoy the rest of my career as much as I can, and from now on, whatever happens, I'll face it. ”
From Nadal's words, there can be two interpretations, one is that if he wins 21 Grand Slams, he will not be so excited, because the gap with Federer and Djokovic is not large, he still has to take the 22nd and 23rd, and the other is that he has seen through the victory and defeat, and the number or less of the Grand Slams does not matter to him. Either way, the relieved Nadal is a pressure on the other two giants, and it remains to be seen whether Nadal can make history first at the 2022 Australian Open.