Thank you, you’re too kind *tears up* I stayed up until 4am today for that match and by the end of it I was so frustrated I started to literally scream at the TV. I’ve no idea if my neighbors would’ve assumed I was going mental and I didn’t have the facility to spare them any thought. 

I mean...

I’ve been following Rafa Nadal for close to 15 years now, so injuries have become a sort of routine, awful, but familiar. I don’t even know how his withdrawal today still managed to hit me so hard. I can only blame the fact that I’ve been having a nightmare of a season in skating as well and it spilled over somehow.

Then in the press conference after Rafa just had to go in and say, basically, along the line of, I’ve been winning a lot but sometimes I can’t help but thinking what could’ve happened without all of these injuries. Wow, thanks, dude, for breaking my heart all over again.