Rafa Nadal: "It is always important to start well to have confidence"

MADRID, 28 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal is clear that starting a new season "is always exciting" and that for him it is also "important to start well to have confidence", especially after a second half of 2022 that was not so positive for him and where he returned to suffer physical problems.

"The start of the season is always exciting. Something new begins for everyone, with all the doubts about how things will go. Regardless of how many seasons I've been on the circuit, for me the beginnings are always different," Nadal said at the wheel. press prior to the start of the United Cup collected by the competition website.

The Spaniard claimed to have "enormous motivation to start well." "It's always important to start well to have confidence. The last few months have not been easy for me and now I just try to do the proper training before the tournament starts," he underlined.

In this sense, he is clear that he will try to "help the team" in this new United Cup, where he will be the leader of Spain. "The main thing for me right now is to get my good feeling back on the track and be competitive. I'm prepared for it to happen, but we'll see, I'm just focused on getting to a competitive level," warned the world number two.

The man from Manacor, who will form a team with Paula Badosa, Nuria Parrizas, Jessica Bouzas, Pablo Carreño, Albert Ramos and David Vega, is "focused" on his first match, on Saturday, which will already be a demanding one against the British Cameron Norrie. "That's the goal now. Then we'll try to win the first tie as a team over any individual game, and then we'll see what we can get against Australia," he said.