Nadal speaks ahead of ATP Finals in London: “I have good hopes to be 100% ready for Monday"

Rafael Nadal is one of the biggest favorites to win the 2019 Nitto ATP Finals in London and also to finish as a year-end no.1 and now he spoke about his feelings.

Nadal is in the group with Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas. Although these young players might not be as experienced as Nadal, they will definitely make it hard for him to advance from the Group Andre Agassi.

“To play here is always a very special thing. [I'm] excited to be back here in London in one of the great events of the year,” Nadal said on Friday. “I'm going to try my best to keep producing chances to compete well, and if I'm competing well, I'm playing at my best, I hope to have my chances to have a good result.”

Rafa also spoke about finishing as year-end no.1 and tying with Federer and Djokovic in this statistic.

“Of course, I would love to be the year-end No. 1,” he said. “I would love to be equal with Roger and Novak.”

The best 8 of the 2019 season play in London and so it will be a difficult task for Nadal to lift the trophy at the ATP Finals.

“It's a tournament [where] you will face the top guys since the beginning, so you need to be 100 per cent ready,” he said. “But I really hope that I will be able to serve every single day a little better, and my goal is to be on Sunday serving normal. I have good hopes to be 100 percent ready for Monday,” he said.

“I am 33 and a half, that's old, young, old to play tennis, young like a person... I'm happy to be where I am today. For me, it's a dream come true to be what I am at this moment in my career. Honestly, I didn't expect to be where I am when [I was] in the position of all of them. But I feel lucky with all the things that happened to me during all these years,” Nadal said.

“It's an exciting moment in tennis. We can see here there [are] a lot of very young players, and they are improving... and this is healthy for the sport, too. I think they are super good. They say they are the future, but they are the present and, of course, the future of our sport.”

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