• Nadal "I don't quite understand why we can't play when people are going to work"

Rafael Nadal, currently number two in the world ranking, declared this Sunday that he is "very pessimistic to think that the international circuit will resume normal normal activity" soon due to the accumulation of trips by tennis players to the different tournaments held throughout the world. world.

"We are in a very difficult time for everyone after a very hard month and a half with many irreparable losses", which will be aggravated by the economic crisis that will result from this situation and which will cause "great suffering in society for the people who will be seen affected by job loss, "he said.

"For a month and a half we have lived with very unpleasant news, but the attitude of the health personnel has been memorable and the reality is that it is a pity that the means they needed were not available," he said.

"We have had a very bad time and we have had to take extreme measures, because unfortunately we do not take the appropriate preventive measures and now what continues to matter is saving lives," said Nadal, in a virtual talk organized by the Spanish Tennis Federation , in the one that other Spanish tennis players like Feliciano López, Roberto Bautista or Pablo Carreño participated in.

On the possibility that the international circuit will resume soon, Nadal said he is "very pessimistic" because of the movement of tennis players.

"I am very pessimistic when the circuit returns to a normal activity due to the fact that it travels. Even if it was played behind closed doors, you have to think that there are many people involved. Internationally, I see it as a serious problem," he concluded.

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