Rafael Nadal’s Retirement Will Leave a Gaping Hole in Sports
Wimbledon
By Sean Gregory October 10, 2024 9:45 PM EDT A passage from the Rudyard Kipling poem “If” is written on the wall of the players’ entrance to Wimbledon’s Centre Court. “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters both the same,” it reads. Competitors can glance at Kipling’s writing before they take to the London grass. To American tennis legend Chris Evert, these words encapsulate the spirit of Rafael Nadal, the Spanish star who has spent the last two decades
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