(dailynewyorknews) – Rafael Nadal looks to recover after a discharge in Shanghai, finishing the 2011 season of tennis on a high note.
The Spaniard lost his No. 1 ranking to Novak Djokovic Despite winning the French Open for the sixth time in June, and took a month off after his surprise defeat in 23 German Florian Mayer’s ranking in the third round in China .
Nadal has never won a season-ending ATP World Tour Finals, where they opened the campaign in Group B of Mardy Fish in London on Sunday. But 25 years, said he feels sure that the first $ 5 million tournament, and next month’s Davis Cup final against Argentina.
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“Stop feeling like I had a good last year, is important. This is a positive, and I worked,” said Nadal, beaten by Roger Federer in the final in London in 2011.
“I feel good. I am very pleased with how I’m practicing and doing things. I’m happy with the way my mind works and I work hard every day with sufficient motivation. It is very important.
“Losing Shanghai was difficult to manage because I felt I was in a positive moment. I felt I had the opportunity to play a good tournament and I had a bad loss against Mayer, then hurt me a bit.
“I felt I needed to stop this practice a little bit to find a physically and mentally, and that’s what I did. Not only think of this year, but the thought of trying to finish the season healthy and try to start next season with something positive. ”
Federer seeks his sixth record, arriving on the hard court event of a 12-match winning run after his triumphs in Basel and Paris.
30 years, 16-time Grand Slam champion, will start his tournament’s opening Group B against France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Nadal takes the first court.
“This year will be very interesting because I feel one up to four types are the favorites, and then five to eight that have the potential to alter the type of the top and go all the way to the end,” said the Swiss, who beat Tsonga in Paris Masters final last week.
“They have games, they can beat anyone on any given day, and they are good enough to win too. They are even groups. All the top eight guys have the potential to do something here. “
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/19/sport/tennis/tennis-nadal-federer-atp-finals/index.html?hpt=ite_t1
