Bernard Tomic paid the final word tribute to Rafael Nadal by stating that there’s just one Rafa, earlier than additionally praising the Spaniard’s persona and describing him as “a really humble and nice particular person.”
This week, the Australian competed on the Bangalore Challenger in India, the place received his opening match however then misplaced to Brandon Holt within the round-of-16.
Whereas there, an Indian tennis journalist caught up with the 2011 Wimbledon quarterfinalist.
And when requested about Nadal, Tomic immediately introduced up Nadal’s astonishing file of 14 French Open titles and highlighted that will probably be extraordinarily troublesome for anybody to interrupt that feat ever.
“There’ll by no means be a Rafa once more, you realize?” the four-time ATP champion informed Sportskeeda.
“What he did in our sport is simply too good. I believe nobody for the following 100, 200 years is gonna win that many French Opens and that is an unimaginable particular person, so nice success for him, proper?”
Tomic: All of us can be taught from Nadal
Eight years in the past, the Australian obtained an opportunity to play doubles with the Spanish tennis icon in Indian Wells.
Their debut as a pair went fairly stable as they beat Pablo Carreno Busta and Pedro Sousa 6-4 7-6 (7) earlier than doubles specialists Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram edged them out in a really tight battle 3-6 7-6 (4) 11-9.
After praising Nadal’s on-court greatness, Tomic additionally had nothing however good to say concerning the 38-year-old’s persona.
“Yeah, I used to be fairly good with Rafa and we managed to play doubles as soon as I believe,” the Australian recalled.
“We are able to all be taught from, you realize, Rafa and these robust guys, they had been the champions of our sport.
“However he was a extremely humble particular person, not simply as a participant, he was an incredible particular person off the courtroom.
“So, you realize, I want him the very best in his continued life, and all of the success he has had.”
After always battling accidents in his previous couple of years on the Tour, Nadal retired after the 2024 Davis Cup Finals in November.
