{"id":76161,"date":"2021-05-07T19:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=65908"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:13:36","slug":"i-feel-sad-leaving-but-it-was-a-positive-week-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/i-feel-sad-leaving-but-it-was-a-positive-week-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel sad leaving but it was a positive week in Madrid\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal left the Caja M\u00e1gica with a bittersweet feeling after losing to Alexander Zverev on Friday in the quarter-finals. Accepting defeat always takes time, but the owner of five Mutua Madrid Open crowns took the positives from the progress made during this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In his press conference, the Spaniard did not hide that his feelings after the match were \u201cnegative because it\u2019s an important week for me, one that excites me and a lot of positive things had happened in training and in previous matches\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that I have made progress but, when you move forward, you can take a step backwards and I think that\u2019s what happened today\u201d, admitted the first seed at the third ATP Masters 1000 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal was also critical of his performance. \u201cThings started in the same way as previous matches, but in the moment of truth, the times when I had to take the set, I did everything wrong, making several mistakes\u201d, said the world No. 2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Gracias por tu esfuerzo ??? <\/p>\n<p>La Caja M\u00e1gica siempre a tus pies, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RafaelNadal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RafaelNadal<\/a> ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZuOSykqSAa\">pic.twitter.com\/ZuOSykqSAa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MutuaMadridOpen\/status\/1390689852962844672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The player from Manacor made no excuses about his loss, pointing out that in the conditions in Madrid, \u201cplaying against someone like Zverev, who puts you under pressure by serving at 135 mph, I have to hit the ball six metres behind the line, even there I\u2019m hitting it very high above my shoulder and that\u2019s why only my best game is good enough\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZverev is a good player, congratulations to him on the win, but the negative side is that, having been the better player in the first set, I lost when it\u2019s normally the other way round, winning sets where I\u2019ve been the worst\u201d, offered the 20-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal acknowledged that he felt \u201csad about the defeat because it was an opportunity for me that I have let slip and I\u2019ll work to have another one next week\u201d, adding that \u201cyou can progress through the clay swing, so we\u2019ll see what happens now because the goal before Roland Garros is winning in Rome\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal left the Caja M\u00e1gica with a bittersweet feeling after losing to Alexander Zverev on Friday in the quarter-finals. Accepting defeat always takes time, but the owner of five Mutua Madrid Open crowns took the positives from the progress made during this year\u2019s tournament. In his press conference, the Spaniard did not hide that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,18,179],"tags":[112,41,201,11,17,117,686],"class_list":["post-76161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-tennis","category-mutua-news","category-tennis","tag-alexander-zverev-en","tag-atp-en","tag-mmo-en","tag-mmopen","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en","tag-rafael-nadal-en","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}