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End date put on 'beaten up' Nadal's career - CtrlF.XYZ

End date put on 'beaten up' Nadal's career

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Rafael Nadal was "beaten up" by rising American weapon Frances Tiafoe successful his US Open exit and could bring down the curtain connected his legendary vocation astatine adjacent year's Roland-Garros, Wally Masur believes.

Although Nadal has had a magnificent 2022 run — helium conquered the Australian Open, won Roland-Garros and reached the Wimbledon semi-finals — his fourth-round decision astatine the US Open heightened fears helium could beryllium astir to motion off.

The 22-time singles expansive slam champion, present 36, was dumped from the New York large successful a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 nonaccomplishment to 24-year-old Tiafoe connected Tuesday morning.

"I request to hole things, life, past I don't cognize erstwhile I'm going to travel back," Nadal said aft the match, casting further uncertainty connected his future.

"I (am) going to effort to beryllium acceptable mentally. When I consciousness that I volition beryllium acceptable to vie again, I volition beryllium there."

His woman is expecting their archetypal kid successful the coming months and was hospitalised precocious implicit concerns with the pregnancy.

Masur saw signs of the extremity nearing rapidly successful Nadal's decision to Tiafoe, which dealt the Spaniard his archetypal nonaccomplishment astatine a large this twelvemonth and ended his 22-match winning streak astatine expansive slams.

"When I watched that lucifer contiguous — and this is the fastest tribunal of the year, surely the fastest (at a) slam — helium was beaten up. Tiafoe took it to him. He had much firepower, surely disconnected that forehand helping and surely matched his physicality," Masur said connected Stan Sport's Grand Slam Daily.

"I look astatine Rafa losing successful the 4th round, which is simply a large effort ... but however galore 4th rounds does Rafa privation to suffer in? If helium goes to the Australian Open and helium runs into a Tiafoe oregon idiosyncratic akin ... Rafa plays to win, helium plays to triumph slams.

"I conscionable can't ideate helium wants to instrumentality astir if the adjacent question are coming and starting to drawback and overtake him.

"Maybe the French (Open) — helium picks the French (Open) 1 twelvemonth and bows out."

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Tiafoe, Carlos Alcaraz, Casper Ruud, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios, Jannik Sinner, Daniil Medvedev and Félix Auger-Aliassime are among the stars making sound arsenic Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer adjacent successful connected retirement.

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"I inactive deliberation we're seeing the changing of the guard," Masur said.

"I thought Tsitsipas and Zverev were going to swamp — surely Roger's injured — Djokovic and Rafa. I thought they were going to get overtaken. That hasn't needfully been the case.

"Now we're talking astir Alcaraz, Sinner ... Tiafoe's coming, Nick's starting to find his feet.

"There is simply a changing of the guard, but it hasn't changed yet."

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