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RAFA Nadal refused to make any excuses for his shocking loss to Diego Schwartzman in the Italian Open quarterfinals, insisting he is now focused on fine-tuning his game ahead of the French Open, which begins on September 27.
The nine-time champion from Rome looked well off-beat in his 6-2 7-5 loss to the 15th-ranked Argentine, an opponent he had beaten nine times in a row before Saturday’s meeting in the Italian capital.
“We can find excuses, but I didn’t play well enough. So we have to think internally, ‘Why? How can i fix it? ‘”The 34-year-old Spaniard told reporters. “Now is not the time to make excuses. It’s just to accept that I didn’t play well enough. “
“It was not my night. I think he played a great game and I didn’t. These things can happen. After not competing for so long, I played two good games, and now I played a bad one against a good opponent. – Reuters
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