Rafael Nadal held a press conference ahead of his return to tennis in Paris tomorrow, and he said that he's not fighting to be number one again.
Since putting Roger Federer into retirement, Rafael Nadal has not played tennis, and the match he plays tomorrow in Paris will be his first since then. Prior to the match, the Spaniard disregarded Moya's claim that he has a specific objective of finishing the year as the top player.
"To be clear, I will not fight anymore to be No. 1" said Nadal ahead of his round two match against Tommy Paul.
"I did in the past," continued Nadal adding: I achieved that goal a couple of times in my career and I have been very, very happy and proud about achieving that. But I am in a moment of my tennis career that I don't fight to be No. 1. I just fight to keep being competitive in every event that I play."
The tone of this response is significantly different from what Moya said a few weeks ago when he stated that Nadal wants to end the year as the top player. The conversation then turned to Nadal's personal life, and he was questioned about the birth of his kid.
"After only three weeks knowing him you start missing him. It’s a new experience, all the changes are difficult in this life and you need to adapt to it, but we are lucky today with technology we can make video calls any time we want, so that helps.”
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