After an unexpected run of success amid a chronic foot pain, Rafael Nadal arrives at Wimbledon halfway through a calendar-year Grand Slam.
LONDON, England – When Wimbledon rolls out the lush green carpet to welcome Rafael Nadal at the championships for the first time in three years next week, it will be the Spaniard’s foot, rather than his formidable forehand, that will be scrutinized to the nth degree.
When Nadal rocked up at the Australian Open in January, he had not won a major for 15 months, had been out of action for five months due to his chronic foot pain, and admitted that he had considered giving it all up for good. “In general, it’s just unbelievable what Rafa has achieved,” Nadal’s great rival Roger Federer, the holder of 20 majors, told Tages-Anzeiger.
While the sporting world will be willing him to win the third leg of the calendar Slam – a feat that was last achieved in 1969 by Rod Laver – the modest Mallorcan crusader is not driven by records or numbers.
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