The Showdown of the Top 8 should be a great festival of tennis. But the WTA final in Shenzhen was a debacle. On the third day, Kiki had to step in and Bertens for the injured Naomi Osaka. On the fourth day, Bianca Andreescu against Karolina Pliskova gave up. On the fifth day couldn’t Bertens finish the match against Belinda Bencic. On the sixth day, Sofia Kenin replaced the ailing Andreescu. And on the seventh day of complaints from Bencic led to the demolition of the semi-finals against Switolina.

Threatens the ATP finals with a similar injury wave, especially since Rafael Nadal has travelled despite a stomach muscle strain after London? Probably not, because the Spaniard is not only athletic, but also in terms of medical history is an exception. So far, he has given up nine times during a Match, six times during an event on a game dispensed with and much more likely to participation in the tournament cancelled. Ex-Coach Toni Nadal said in 2018, his nephew live since 2005, with pain and painkillers.

The Superstar himself in his life described after his twelfth French-Open-title thus: “Usually, the injury is diagnosed, I rehabilitation and training, as it would be no big deal. I play with pain and see the Suffering.”

“I play with pain and see the Suffering.”Rafael Nadal

in the long term it is not healthy to play professional tennis. The understands, who sees Boris Becker on crutches due to the O2-Arena lag. Rapid changes of direction on hard surfaces combined with millions of repetitions of movements of the left inevitably in their footsteps, although at different depth. Stan Wawrinka, at 34 a year older than Nadal, told in Basel, it is one of his career, to play with pain. He said: “to be in pain every. Some talk more, others less.”

Roger Federer is one of those that rarely speak about health problems, and if so, then in the retrospective. The Basel area has each of its 1503 games terminated normally, only four times he has competed in 22 seasons as a professional. However, in spite of flowing movements and dance-like acting style of running he, too, is not immune to setbacks. His knee surgery and the back are documented blockages, but also because of tweaks here and.

“the pain everyone has. Some talk more, others less.”Stan Wawrinka

“You do not talk about it and hide the Problem for as long as possible. Maybe you take the tablets towards the end of the season a little more Pain, because it is cold outside, which adds to the problems,” he says, as he deals with injuries or slight injuries. Particularly unpleasant it is when several occur at the same time. “Then you don’t have to take too many compromises and you can’t really play.”

The complaints are then for the duration of the topic, what the player reset. Federer says: “You’re trying to do everything right, but sometimes it is not better, which is frustrating. We agreed in the team that you ask me even then. It is important to know what to do. And if you don’t have time to solve the Problem, you focus better on something else. Then asked me a lot of positive energy.”

“We have not settled in the Team, that you can ask me then.”Roger Federer

The 38-Year-old measures, often with much younger opponents, which are still virtually intact. Dominic Thiem reports: “I’m lucky with my body. So far, I still have to swallow the pain. I hope that it stays that way.” Stefanos Tsitsipas is to have two parts injured in dispute. “Therefore, I can imagine how it is to play daily with pain. It makes definitely no Fun. Therefore, I am grateful that I he says in a different phase of life am and hope that I need to feel on the Court, never”,.

there is no guarantee, but a debacle such as in Shenzhen, is not expected at the ATP finals in London, in spite of Nadal, because the stories of suffering, most of the participants have only a very few chapters, if at all.

Created: 12.11.2019, 09:14 PM