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Tired Nadal considers stemming decline

by sporti55
October 19, 2016
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Rafael Nadal said he may end his season early and hit the practice courts instead as he bids to halt a slide in his form in time for next season.

Nadal, 30, was soundly beaten 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) by Viktor Troicki in his first match at the Shanghai Masters.

The defeat came days after his comprehensive defeat at the hands of Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the China Open quarter-final when Nadal could barely hold serve.

Nadal hasn’t reached a final since he won his second title of the year in Barcelona in April.

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“I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next couple of weeks. It’s something that I need to think about,” the world No 5 said.

“I cannot say now what I’m going to do during the next month. I’m not sure about my calendar. I’m not sure about the things that I need to do to try to be 100 per cent ready for next year.”

The last events of the season include the Swiss Indoors, the Paris Masters and the ATP World Tour Finals in London. But Nadal, a 14-time grand slam champion, said more tournaments may not be what he needs.

“Sometimes keeping (on) competing is not the solution. Sometimes the solution is to practise and stop and have a process of training. And maybe that’s an opportunity to do it,” he said.

“I’m not sure about that. Maybe I’m going to play in Basel in two weeks. So it’s not the day and not the moment to analyse all these kind of things.”

Signs are growing of a steady decline for the one-time clay court king, who won his first major title at 17 but hasn’t added to his tally of majors since the 2014 French Open.

Nadal said he badly needed to work on his once-formidable forehand, and the speed of movement which made him a brick wall for so many opponents.

“Every time that I hit the forehand, I need to create pain for the opponent, something that is not happening today,” he said.

“Maybe because I had an injury on the wrist and I am scared. Maybe because I still have some limitation in there. But at the end of the day, nobody cares about that and I don’t care about that.”

He said he needed to recover “the electricity in the legs” and “move faster to hit more forehands”.

“But I need to be more confident with the forehand to make that happen. Everything is a cycle. I need to do the things together.”

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