Beaten but not defeated, Rafael Nadal, as usual, clearly analyzed his performance against Tommy Paul.

“There are many things in the last few weeks, months no doubt, that have happened. But there! We are always ready to find excuses, but in the end it is always the same. If you play well, you win; if you don’t play well, you lose! I held the match in the second set, with a set and a break lead, but I was playing very poorly at that point. So in certain crucial passages I didn’t make the right decisions. That is all! He played very well. He’s had a good year so far, so congratulations to him. He played with the right intensity and the right concentration. He took risks. I tried to do it for a while, but I couldn’t keep up.

Written on Thursday 3 November 2022 at 9:24