“I’m not the ideal person” Rafael Nadal rules out turning to coaching after his retirement

Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal has a staggering 92 career titles to his name and has a 1063-212 win-loss ratio in his career. He has looked great in all three of the grand slams this year out of which he had won two (Australian and French Open) and finished as semi-finalists after withdrawing from this year’s Wimbledon because of an abdominal tear in the quarter-finals against Taylor Fritz.

This year’s Australian Open and French Open champion is set to feature in the Montreal Masters, starting on August 5th is looking in great shape after the injury, the leader in the all-time Grand Slam list, and will be eyeing to make history at the event. He has lifted the title five times at the Canadian Open – 2005, 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2019. Another title will help him equal the all-time best record at the event presently held by the legendary Ivan Lendl – six trophies in nine finals.

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Rafael Nadal: ‘I don’t know if I’m the right person to coach a player’

Rafael Nadal with his training academy students.

After discussing the notion of talent in the excellent interview for the airline Iberia centred around his academy in Manacor, Nadal was asked about his post-career and the possibility of one day becoming a coach. A hypothesis for the moment to be excluded according to the Spanish champion.

“I am sure that one day I will be a former elite athlete, but I will always be a sportsman, because sport is my passion and I will practice it for as long as my body allows me. And I will always be involved in the Academy, which is a project that we started a few years ago and which is gaining momentum.

“I even hope to be able to devote more time to it than today, because I continue to participate in competitions and to travel all over the world. In the Academy there are players of all kinds and I hope that a future tennis star is already among us. I don’t know if I’m the ideal person to coach a player… For now, I don’t think so, although, as the saying goes, you should never say that I won’t drink this water,” said Nadal.

Many athletes believe that they cannot become good coaches which is true as we have seen many players fail as coaches in different sports, The same goes with Nadal who also thinks that he cannot become a good coach.

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