Everyone knows that this banged-up Nadal, who is heading toward the finish line after battling an ailing hip, a sore back, balky knees and other calamities over the past two years, is a shadow of his former self. But even if he does not strike a tennis ...

“At the moment, I have not decided the players that are going to play tomorrow.” The 38-year-old Nadal announced last month that he would walk away from tennis after the Davis Cup at home in Spain. Nadal has been dealing with a series of injuries the ...

Such is the interest in Nadal’s farewell that the press conference room at the Martin Carpena Arena was not deemed big enough to cope with demand for Spain’s pre-event media, and it instead took place at a conference centre at the team’s five-star hotel on the Costa del Sol.