![]() ![]() I have learnt a lot from being at the Rafa Nadal Academy, we practise. Rafa takes being competitive to a different level. Every player wants to win every point, but Roger (Federer), Novak (Djokovic) and Rafa have a different mentality from the rest. ![]() He's greedy and doesn't give away too many mistakes. Against most players you'll get some unforced errors, some mistakes, of course against Rafa too you'll get it, but it doesn't feel like a free point. He plays every single point as if it's his last point. He wants to win every point, which makes it so tough physically. I've practised with him many times, but a match is always different, especially in a Roland Garros setting, the final. Can you describe how Nadal competes? What's it like to go up against him? Playing Nadal best-of-five on clay is not something many can be prepared for. Yet he's known as one of the best players on clay. (Dominic) Thiem, the one Grand Slam he has won, is on hard courts. Rafa (Nadal) has won the US Open so many times. ![]()
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