The 14-times major winner is no longer displaying his trademark powers of recovery after failing to depart past the quarter-finals in any of the slams this yearTime is running out for Rafael Nadal and he has not reached 30. To blow a two-set lead in a slam against someone as fleetingly brilliant and fragile as Fabio Fognini was not so much careless as mysterious.
There are critics,many of them fans of the more languid style of Roger Federer, who beget said ever since the Spaniard’s knees started to give up on him several years ago that his relentless, and physical game would curtail his career ahead of schedule. They could be right. The hair is thinning,and maybe the willingness to suffer is too.
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Source: theguardian.com