I'm not going to give up on Nadal yet, we all know he's getting kind of old and injuries affect tennis players a lot since it's a one player game, but he's not the type of player to give up easily, he had his downs throughout his career and bounced back, I'm expecting him to win a couple of big tournaments before he retires, if his body doesn't bring him down, the mentality to win will always be there with El Matador.
me too - for me Nadal has always been a legend to me.
YOu are right he would not give up that easily - but that too is true -sometime the injuries are fatal and they kick off the players off their career.
Nadal comes back to form, but we can't expect him to perform same as his past days. He's a never give up attitude person, but his injuries keeps on hurting and at times when he's on the progression once again something hurts. He's a good player, but the emerging young ones are giving hard fight. Somehow Spanish players are getting to be on the top players like Carlos Alcaraz, Pablo Carreno Busta and Roberto Bautista Agut are in great form.
We can say that Spanish tennis will be good once Nadal retired as they have found a gem in Carlos Alcaraz. Nevertheless, I think Nadal can still compete and maybe win some tournaments and his favorite Grand Slam for this year.
He just need to focus and let his body heal and be selective of tournaments that he will enter. It might be good for him to have a tune up match prior to the French Open, to loosen up and gauge his body to the grueling Grand Slam that he is the best as no one can touch the number of wins he got in that surface.