The last Masters of the year, the Paris Masters, is in full swing, and Nadal, who was "difficult to match" in this event, has long since missed the competition.
As the most Masters title he has ever won with Djokovic, he has never won a title in this event.
Since losing the french open semi-final to Djokovic and failing to defend his title, Nadal has played only two games on the field. It was his first appearance at the Washington Open, where he lost to South African Harris in the third round after beating homegrown player and former Paris Masters champion Solk.
In order to cure the long-standing injury, Nadal decided to withdraw from the rest of the season. And because of his withdrawal, he fell off the championship standings this season, and was overtaken by his fan Zinner in this week's leaderboard, falling to 9th place, and will miss the atp finals for the first time in nearly 17 years.
Although Nadal's record in this year-end finale is not very good, the end of this record can not help but make people marvel: it turns out that he has stood at the top of the tennis world for 17 consecutive years.
But at the same time, he also has good news, he has locked up the year-end top ten of the season, which means that espanyol will be in the top ten of the year for 17 consecutive years, a stat that surpasses the two ancient gods, Connors and Agassi.
Currently, in the year-end top ten rankings, Nadal is only slightly behind Federer by a margin of 1, while the other giant Djokovic is 14 times.
A few days ago, both the media and Nadal's team members have revealed that Nadal intends to make a comeback in the Australian season early next year.
Until then, he may only play a low-level event to warm up for his Australian comeback season. At the end of the year, many fans called for Nadal, who was doing his best for the country, to make a rational truce.
First, for the sake of their own body, the road to comeback should be slow and slow, and they should not be rushed. Second, in recent years, the Spanish team has busta, Agut and other big generals to press the line, and the follow-up echelon also has Alcaraz, Fudkina and other junior newcomers, personnel reserves are certainly not a problem.
Just this season, people have marveled at Nadal's physical worries when he has participated in the Barcelona Open + Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid Masters + French Open.
After all, he was no longer the god of war he had fought before. Sure enough, as soon as the clay season passed, injuries immediately hit him.
I only hope that Nadal can return healthy and once again play the iron man tenderness on the field for us! (Source: Tennis House Author: Luo ChengQiye)
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