“Playing is always a reason for joy, this is the reality,” Nadal said. “The most important thing is to have played, the rest is secondary. Until the week is over we won’t know anything, for me it is important that nothing happens. Although it is difficult, perhaps it is not the week to do everything that my heart tells me.
“We are going to do things as best we can, with a lot of logic. That today’s game went like this is positive, it allows me to play again tomorrow. I don’t know how my body will respond to the demands, but I am realistic with what I have experienced in the last year and a half.
“We’ll see how far I go, but I’ll try not to cross lines that aren’t dangerous. From how I am now to how I was a week ago there is an important change. I see myself as competitive, I see myself as capable of enjoying playing, all of this was quite far away a week ago. That’s sport, things change very quickly.”
