Holding back tears Nadal tried to compose himself in his nearly 15-minute speech.
Spain's Rafael Nadal waves at fans during a tribute to his career Palacio de Deportes at the Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena in Malaga, Spain on 20 November 2024.said farewell to tennis and his fans saluted their retiring hero in a bittersweet and emotional ceremony at a sold-out Malaga arena following his last professional match in Spain’s 2-1 Davis Cup defeat to the Netherlands yesterday.
“What I have tried to do is to be a good person and I hope you have perceived that,” Nadal told the Malaga crowd. While his teammate Carlos Alcaraz levelled the tie by beating Tallon Griekspoor 7-6 6-3, Spain’s new tennis king and Marcel Granollers were defeated in the decisive doubles by Wesley Koolhof and Van de Zandschulp.
Crushed by a defeat in which he looked a shadow of himself, Nadal had said earlier that if he was Spain’s Davis Cup captain he would not pick himself to play singles if they advanced in the tournament.
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