PARIS (AP) - When it was over, when Rafael Nadal’s Paris Games - and his Olympic career - ended with a doubles loss in a stadium central to his legacy because it hosts the French Open, which he’s won a record 14 times, he soaked in the applause accompanying his exit from the red clay.
Rafael Nadal isn’t sure whether he will play in Paris again after his Olympics end in a doubles loss
PARIS (AP) - When it was over, when Rafael Nadal’s Paris Games - and his Olympic career - ended with a doubles loss in a stadium central to his legacy because it hosts the French Open, which he’s won a record 14 times, he soaked in the applause accompanying his exit from the red clay.
Was this 6-2, 6-4 defeat alongside Carlos Alcaraz to the fourth-seeded American duo of Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram actually Nadal’s last match at Roland Garros?
Let’s let Nadal answer: "Maybe," he said later in the evening. "I don’t know."
Was it his last match anywhere? No way for anyone to be sure if he himself isn’t.