Nadal is in the semifinal at the Australian Open and he will play a guy that does not beat him for 7 years in Grand Slams: Roger Federer.
Everything should be wonderful for him. Right? Wrong!
Rafa has been playing with horrible blisters to his left hand that is creating major problems to his tennis. Probably the worst of all is the fact that Nadal has lost a lot of sensitivity to really struggle with his service. This gave a good edge to Dimitrov and it might be absolutely fatal against Federer.
Nadal: If I do not fix this problem I won’t win
The world no.1 commented “Serving with this injury leads to problems with the rest of my game. When you lose confidence with one shot, an important shot, then you are not able to feel comfortable about the rest of your shots.
I will try to improve that. If not, I won’t have a chance of being in the final.”
Rafa leads Roger 22-10 and he doesn’t lose in a Slam with the Swiss since Wimbledon 2007.
