Rafael Nadal missed last year’s U.S. Open with a bum left knee and ended up watching the final on TV from his home on the Spanish island of Majorca.
“For sure I watched the final,” Nadal said with a smile in reference to Andy Murray’s historic five-set win over Novak Djokovic. “It was a great final, but was not a strange feeling because most of the times that I played Grand Slam I watched the final on TV, so at the end is nothing completely new.”
What is new is that Nadal comes roaring into this year’s Open having gone 15-0 on hardcourts in 2013 and won back-to-back hardcourt tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati.
A year ago, many wondered whether Nadal would have to cut back on his hardcourt schedule because of the punishment his balky left knee was taking as a result of his grueling groundstroke game.
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