‘Of course I want to keep winning, but that’s not because I want to have more titles than the others’
different surfaces. If I had playedMiami, I would not have had time to rest or make a swift transition to clay. I’ve needed to push very hard since the beginning [of the season], so that’s dangerous for my foot and for my knees. I need tomake those transitions step by step. I cannot make drastic changes like I did in the past.” The clay-court season should see Nadal and Djokovic eventually resume their head- to-head rivalry for the first time since Roland Garros last year. When Djokovic
won the French Open andWimbledon last summer to join Nadal and Roger Federer on 20 Grand Slam titles, the Serbwas the favourite to end his career with the most, but his decision not to be vaccinated against Covid sawhimmiss the Australian Open, where Nadal took advantage of his absence to become the manwith the most Grand Slam singles titles. For a while it seemed that Djokovic might also have tomiss Roland Garros because of his vaccination status, but the tournament
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