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Tenshizanshi t1_j4uo4em wrote

Reply to comment by iflyhy1 in Mackenzie McDonald Stuns Rafael Nadal in Australian Open Second Round by yesh222

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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