But in the latest episode of the Spanish star’s serial, late-career injury struggles, a damaged hip that just won’t heal right may prevent him from adding to his startling 112-3 French Open match record.
Nadal has played in 18 consecutive editions of Roland Garros.
It’s the surgeons and sports medicine specialists, whose physical manipulations and advice in the coming days may determine if we are at the end of an era in which one man has dominated one of the world’s premier sporting events more comprehensively than anyone, in any other major sport. It isn’t vultures that have been circling high above the head of Nadal, the 36-year old King of Clay.
For a few years there will be a lot of, like, ‘Wow, so this is what Roland Garros is going to be like in the post-Rafael Nadal era.’ Tennis Channel analyst Pam Shriver, trying to imagine what the French Open might look and feel like should 14-time champion Nadal no longer be able to compete.
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