Rafa Nadal, smiling as soon as he says goodbye as a professional player: “I’m retired”

The former Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal commented this Wednesday with a smile that he is “retired”, a few hours after having officially ended his long and very successful professional career as a player, after the elimination of Spain in the Davis Cup quarterfinals. and admitting that “things don’t always go the way you want.”

“My professional career has come to an end, meaning I am retired,” Nadal told RTVE after arriving in Mallorca from Malaga. “The Davis Cup is always a nice experience because you can be as a team, you can live the feeling of playing in front of the Spanish public again, and I enjoyed it,” he said.

“In the end the result was not what we all would have liked. But that’s sport, things don’t always go the way you want,” said the former Balearic player, in the wake of the Netherlands eliminating the Spanish team last Tuesday. at the José María Martín Carpena Sports Palace.

Finally, Nadal spoke about his future. “It changes my life radically, a big change. And nothing, simply accepting everything that this change is normally and accepting what is a life that is going to be different from what it has been these last, I would say, almost 30 years ; but well, with the hope of living it, without a doubt,” he concluded.