Rafael Nadal: ‘Why doping allegations? Maybe because of my game’

Interviewed by El Mundo, Rafael Nadal spoke again about the anxiety issues he’d had last year.

‘At the beginning of 2015, I noticed it while practicing. What was sure was that I was playing very bad. When you are practicing or competing bad, I feel anxiety, the lack of control of personal feelings. These things happen. Now when I practice well, normally I play well, but if in competition these problems continue, then something does not work. In my life, practicing well and competing badly almost never happened, especially not having control of myself on the court.  When asked if he thought a psychologist would be useful for him, he said, ‘I went to the psychologist once, when I was little because it cost me to sleep during nights. How old was I? I do not know, 10 or something. But it’s also of being surrounded by people who know you well. You can have anxiety, but at the end it gets out of you. I thought all the time that the things would have changed and would have gone better.’ Rafa then continued,  ‘Nowadays I sleep well. I do not like sleeping much, all my life it gave me the feeling that when I sleep I lose time. But over the years I have improved and thus sleep much more than before.’ The conversation then moved on to the subject of the doping allegations …

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