Toni Nadal He maintains his calm and enlightening speech when he talks with this newspaper. He is friendly, sympathetic and with few hairs in the tongue. He likes to joke and is a friend of what academic. It was when he molded tennis races and it is also now when he offers motivational talks for companies. He is a goldsmith of one of the best players in history, his nephew Rafawho taught to reflect through the examples.
He did it from the beginning of Nadal’s sports career until 2017 under an argument away from the trifle that forces thought beyond words. “With Rafael I was very hard because I understand the hardness not as an end, but as a means to achieve the objectives, ”he details during his conversation with Okdiario, which occurs after presenting Life Padel Business had in Alcobendas.
Toni Nadal began his studies at History and Rightbut neither ended. He started working in the Manacor Tennis Club And Rafa’s irreducible mentality chiseled with a philosophy that combines technical work and training in values. Toni, ‘Uncle Toni’, no matter how much merits, was key in the successful career of his nephew contemplated by 22 Grand Slam, 36 Masters 1,000, five Davis Cup and two Olympic golds.
Question: How is Rafa Nadal after the withdrawal?
Answer: The first thing I want to say is that Rafael is no longer tennis, he is a former tennis player who is very good and happy at home. After many years of competition he decided to retire and already knows that tennis is over for him.
Q: Did he believe at any time that he could lengthen his sports career?
A: I think Rafael hurried until the end to see if he managed to lengthen him and be able to recover well to make a few more tournaments at a good level. In the end it was not possible and I think the right thing was what he did, to end.
Q: You always subtract merits, but … how much incidence did Toni Nadal really in Rafa’s career?
A: I was not key. I was his coach, especially during the years of training, but I was not key in the incidence of his career. I was lucky to have a great player and that is what allowed him to be very good, not what I was saying.
Q: How many hardness have you had with Rafa in training?
A: I was a hard guy because I believe in hardness, not as an end, but as a means to get things. And I was hard because the goal we had was very high and especially because he had a great esteem. I would never be hard with someone who did not feel great esteem and great appreciation.
Q: Thanks to that mentality … Is Rafa’s legacy different from Federer and Djokovic?
A: Yes, I think the legacy that leaves different. There are people who with their victories transcend in their sport, as is the case of Djokovic, who has been one of the best athletes in history. And there are other athletes who transcend the world of sport for their way of behaving, for their way of doing and I think it is the case of Federer and Rafael. Rafael’s image goes beyond the merely sports.
Q: Before I talked about not being charged for being Rafa coach. Why didn’t he?
A: Because I didn’t want to charge for it. I knew that that way it was going to be easier, so I could tell him what I thought I should say.
Q: What things could not have told him if he had charged?
A: Well … I should have gone with more care to tell him what I wanted because in the end he who pays him to listen to what he wants to hear.
Q: Let’s talk about the current generation of tennis players in Spain. Is there a certain scarcity in addition to Alcaraz?
A: The reality is that we have a great champion who is Alcaraz. The Spaniards were lucky to have a cast of great champions for many years. From Emilio Sánchez Vicario, Corretja, Bruguera, Moyá, Ferrero, David Ferrer, Feliciano Verdasco … but well, now is Carlos Alcaraz who is a great luck to have him here. One of the best in the world. And then? Well, let’s see how the following upload. There is Martín Landaluce, who is a young man who I think he can aspire to be one of the best in the world. Obviously, having the plethora of great players we had is not easy and it is more difficult to keep the chain, but there are also good players now. They are Carballés, Pedro Martínez and different tennis players, what cannot be aspired is to have three within the Top 10.
Q: In the last ATP finals there was no player who hit the setback to one hand. Why does this shortage occur? For the idiosyncrasy of the new tennis?
A: I don’t think it’s something circumstantial. The children begin to play when they are very young and have no strength to hit the ball with the reverse to one hand and hit it with two. Then there are very few who release their hand and stay with one. It is seen that with two hands it is a little easier. In the end, it is normal for almost everyone to play two hands. Idiosyncrasy can be a determining factor, but it could still be hit. I think it’s because you start from young to two hands and that allows one.
