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Jayr109 t1_j4ue6wz wrote

More like “Rafael Nadal loses because he was injured the whole time”

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iflyhy1 t1_j4unoht wrote

Seemed more of an excuse cuz he was getting clapped

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Tenshizanshi t1_j4uo4em wrote

Nadal has a chronic disease that causes huge amount of pain in his foot. He's been playing injured for a long time now and has openly talked about how it affected his play and facilitated other injuries

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Steedy999 t1_j4we5uv wrote

but that wasnt the injury? he was fine until the end of the 2nd set, then his hip started playing up

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mr_antman85 t1_j4x33ss wrote

The comment was moreso people implying that Nadal faked an injury because he was losing.

If you followed his whole career, he's had a long list of injuries.

Knee injuries, foot injuries, abdominal injuries, hand injuries...so him being injured is nothing new. This is unfortunately a new injury for him but people feel that he rushed back for the Australian Open because he's been hampered for a while.

Maybe all of the injuries have caught up to him unfortunately.

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Slurm818 t1_j4uvcn2 wrote

Oh so he’s just experiencing this thing we call “getting old”

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JonnyArtois t1_j4uzhp3 wrote

As always...Nadal has never ever lost a match without it being because of an injury....

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Luck1492 t1_j4v74ac wrote

Nah, as someone who was watching the whole match, Nadal did t get hampered until the end of the second set after he was down a set and a break. Very unlikely he mounts a comeback from that position regardless of the injury.

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bunn2 t1_j4vq03x wrote

I mean, if you’ve ever played a sport, you’re never outwardly showing an injury until it gets pretty bad. I’d be fairly confident that it was affecting his play all match. Regardless, McDonald did play well.

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FlyingPirate t1_j4vv6ig wrote

So you're saying this was the expected outcome? Hope you put money on it

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