Rafa Nadal turns away from tennis because his body has told him enough. In 2003 he was out for a month with a crack in his right elbow.
In 2004 he missed Roland Garros for the first time in his career. The rupture of the scaphoid of his left foot kept him out of the circuit for four months. In the second round of the Australian Open he felt a puncture in the iliac psoas. In 2009 tendinitis would be in both knees and would be accompanied by an abdominal rupture.