Not Ready Rafael Nadal Withdraws From Indian Wells

RAFA WITHDRAWS FROM INDIAN WELLS
“I have been working hard…but I don’t find myself ready to play at the highest level at such an important event.”

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Shorter version:

“I’m washed up but hanging around to get the sponsor money”.

March 7th, 2024 at 8:29 am

Yep Chris, sponsor money, Saudi money, he’s even offering to give you a one hour individual coaching session for $150,000 (I can’t imagine that anyone took him up on that).

He knows he’s done and he knows he’s got mere months to grab whatever money he can before the well runs dry.

I bet everytime he sits down on someone’s couch the first thing he does is shove his hands down behind the couch cushions to find loose change LOL 😂

The big question is Roland Garros. Will he try but be destroyed? Will he run scared and make some excuse about “injuries”?

We will know in just a couple of months.

P.s. what about the Olympics? Surely Spain won’t waste a medals chance by letting him play?

March 7th, 2024 at 4:39 pm

Nadal is taking everyone for a ride, his fans, his sponsors, tournament organisers. That’s pretty disrespectful.

I really would like Nole to call a day and not stay unnecessary to play in order to milk more money, I would prefer that to happen sooner rather than later, AO did show us that he is already senior citizen in tennis terms, I don’t expect him to win much more tournaments, if he can do one more GS, preferably RG that’ll be bonus, otherwise just retire.

Talking about Olympics, I thought there are certain rules in place in order to qualify for it, on what ground they will allow Rafa to play and Andy for that matter?! Does that make Nole and others fools for following the rules and playing DC matches in order to qualify?

March 7th, 2024 at 5:29 pm

@Chrisford, you really think that? I think he’s so tight with Larry Ellison that he gave it a shot but he’s not ready.

March 7th, 2024 at 5:30 pm

@lylenubbins

Even you didn’t address me I agree with half of your post, he is very close with Larry Ellison, I think he even stayed at his place before.
What does it mean “not ready”, he played that Netflix exhibition with Alcaraz and looked fine and pocketed millions of dollars, of course he is not at the top of his game but he isn’t injured, and I highly suspect any injury in Brisbane after losing to Thompson, he just have fear of losing the matches. When is he going to be ready, he had more than a year to get ready….ohh yes, dirt is around the corner, he won’t miss it.

March 7th, 2024 at 6:13 pm

WB, regarding Olympic qualification, I believe that previous medal winners can be exempt from the qualification process subject to that country’s Olympic committee’s discretion.

We all know how the establishment media, the tennis establishment, coaches etc are all in favour of one set of rules for Nadal and another set of rules for everyone else.

Oh, and before I forget, there is also a third, much harsher and less fair, set of rules for Novak.

March 7th, 2024 at 6:34 pm

These Faker fans . Always whining, never happy, never satisfied. Bunch of arseholes!

March 8th, 2024 at 4:45 am

Hi Gisele, rumours are going around that Saudi Ambassador actually never intended to play IW, he only came to States to collect multimillion dollars paycheque from Netflix, IW was just decoy, lot of Ambassador fans are dirty with him, what is your opinion about this?

March 8th, 2024 at 6:24 am

Bog Boy. I never listen to rumours. You shouldn’t as well!

March 8th, 2024 at 11:06 am

Wow, a lot of hate and nastiness in this community.

How about talking about tennis instead of standing on your individual soapboxes? You like tennis and have insights about the sport and tournaments. on the other hand, you know little about the inner lives of the players and their motivations. Stop projecting!

March 8th, 2024 at 11:15 am

PK well said, there’s been very little tennis talk on this forum for a long time peace

March 9th, 2024 at 5:59 am

“How about talking about tennis …”

Last time I checked this is a thread about Rafa withdrawal and discussing exactly that, so we are voicing our opinion on topic, do you have problem with that?

We know how much empathy you showed for Djokovic unlawful detention with illegal immigrants and criminals, did you have your 9th or 10th jab, don’t miss it.

March 9th, 2024 at 7:02 pm

“…there’s been very little tennis tal…”

See above, we are not discussing old age health issues, our partner (and ours) mental problems like “some” do, we are on topic.

March 9th, 2024 at 7:07 pm

Thread is about Rafa withdrawing. And not before playing Alcaraz in a lucrative Vegas Exo, or multiple rounds of posh, post Indian Wells club golf which Rafa has called a golfer’s paradise before. Rafa will skip the Miami tournament and await the Tour in the comfort of his dirtpens.
As a contrast, Andy Murray lost in the 2nd round. He showed up. He played. He had a fine 1st set against Rublev but faded in the 2nd. He showed more testicular fortitude than Rafa.

Congrats to the gals Wozniacki and Kerber on their comebacks so far. Especially Angelique, who beat #10 ranked Ostepenko of Estonia. And Sabelenka saved 4 match points against the American collegiate national champion Peyton Stearns. Someone to watch..

Novak will be at 416 weeks on Monday. 8 years as #1. Another big deal record I just don’t see Sinner or Alcaraz getting to. To do so you need not just winning match brilliance but at least a decade and a half of Federer-Djokovic excellence across all surfaces and Iron Man health, stamina. I’ll root for them to do so when Novak is gone – but if I had to bet, I’d bet neither makes it. (Credit to the other players like Medvedev – Carlos and Jannik are in a high quality, competitive time in the sport.

March 10th, 2024 at 2:10 am

You are talking tennis fair point, makes a change, anyway who’s to say Nadal didn’t pick up an injury in the exho, as regarding Novak getting jabbed I never blamed him for not getting vaccinated, I’ve never trusted it, hubby was healthy till he had it, then had a stroke

March 10th, 2024 at 5:15 am

Why attack the girl on Tenngrand for rooting for her favorite, that’s what people do with all players

March 10th, 2024 at 5:20 am

Sorry ill go off topic for a minute, just wanted to say if David Sachs { AKA} Tennis Vagabond is reading, I got your book The Flood off Amazon, it’s a great read, many thanks 📖

March 10th, 2024 at 5:42 am

Firstly, the quote in my first post is not yours so it wasn’t addressed to you.

More importantly, what a cunning and lying pathetic person you are, to bring something from the other site and just like that to throw accusation that someone is bullying the kids without backing it up by quoting or posting copy/paste of incriminated post is as low as one can go.
Now go back and copy/past my “attack on girl” if you have any decency and leave it here for others to decide if I “attacked girl”, besides you don’t know who is behind the monicker and how old is he/she, but if you are lifelong Rafa fan you are definitely man/woman.

March 10th, 2024 at 4:31 pm

What a nasty piece of work you really are

March 10th, 2024 at 5:11 pm

And by the way these are open forums

March 10th, 2024 at 5:13 pm

Open forum doesn’t mean you can throw accusations at someone without backing it up, so bring it on, post here my “attack on girl”, I am not going to it for you, prove you are not a liar!

March 10th, 2024 at 6:32 pm

https://tenngrand.com/nadal-withdraws-from-indian-wells-masters-not-ready-to-play-highest-level/

March 10th, 2024 at 6:49 pm

Let mi help you out:

Wog Boy
MARCH 7, 2024 AT 6:12 AM
How old are you, if you are some youngster I understand you, you are yet to experience some life, but if you are mature person I really feel sorry for you, you didn’t have much of a life, that’s sad 😔.

Where is me “attacking girl” and was any aggression or anything inappropriate in the post, just friendly advice to find excitement (and happiness) in real life with real people, not sports person, in which case something is serious wrong in your life.

If you scroll dow the link you gave they can find you there doing the same what you did here, but you didn’t have a guts to call me out but trying to apply broader TH community against me, if anything was inappropriate in my post, considering how popular I am over there, they would come down on me like a tone of the bricks, but they didn’t.
I didn’t care less about your accusation since my post was there for everyone to see and judge, but here I couldn’t let you get away with a lie and manipulation.

March 10th, 2024 at 8:05 pm

TG community * should say

March 10th, 2024 at 8:07 pm

I wasn’t lying or trying to manipulate anyone, or get away with anything, it’s not your business to give people advice, on how people lead their lives, I saw it on the none tennis page, when you called me out for calling Elizabeth a brave woman, saying silly woman, how many brave women do you know on the Internet, and you talk about manipulation, your the manipulative one, I’m not intimidated by you so don’t even bother to try, I’m done, have a good day

March 11th, 2024 at 5:43 am

Bog Boy will never change. Always was, still is an Arsehole!

March 11th, 2024 at 6:23 am

Hi Gisele, how are you doing? Did you notice in the link provided by Alison hodge that even Saudi Ambassador’s fans had enough of him?

March 11th, 2024 at 7:20 am

Alison hodge, where is “attack on the girl on Tenngrand”?
If there is none you are a lier, sorry to break it to you.

March 11th, 2024 at 7:24 am

It’s above you said it yourself, an attack ain’t necessarily aggressive, you went after her for when all she was doing was rooting for her favorite, I’ll repeat what I said before, who are you to give people advice

March 11th, 2024 at 7:42 am

Alison hodge, where is “attack on the girl on Tenngrand”?

March 11th, 2024 at 7:52 am

Alison hodge, “I’m done, have a good day…”, yet you are back, lied again?

March 11th, 2024 at 7:55 am

I just noticed, this is one of the longest threads in long long time, keep up the good work boys and girls, we might succeed in reviving TX which is otherwise on a bad way.👏👍

March 11th, 2024 at 8:15 am

Congrats to Novak on 8 years as #1, two years longer than the next guy.
Whooo! woo!

March 11th, 2024 at 8:58 pm

8 years, simply incredible, truly the greatest of all time.

I believe “hair-plugs” Nadal has literally half the number of weeks at number #1 that Novak has and yet there’s still people arguing about who is the greater player LOL 😆😆😆

I think sponsors need to put clauses in the contract about the minimum number of matches you must play per year, about how low your ATP rating is allowed to drop etc before your sponsorship money is cut back.

Nadal is ranked 652 in the world LOL 😂😂😂, I’m thinking his sponsors are not getting their money’s worth but that’s just me.

P.s. why doesn’t he go the Agassi route and just shave his head instead of all these ridiculous attempts at trying to make it look he still has hair? Maybe he can grow it really long on one side and comb it over the top of his head? What do you think ladies?

March 11th, 2024 at 11:15 pm

Hahaha, I knew he is going to lose, he considers sunshine double as a family holiday, same to happen in Miami.

March 12th, 2024 at 12:20 am

I’ll congratulate Nole on becoming the oldest ever #1 in the world on 8th of April.

It’s obvious his focus on tennis diminishes, regardless what he says. When he arrived in America he was doing everything but practicing, watching basketball games in LA and socialising with expatriates in America, Nikola Jokić, Marko Jarić and othets, visiting places and enjoying it, tennis is on the back burner atm, so it should be, good on him.

March 12th, 2024 at 1:19 am