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It is a steady decline in fitness that is nearly 3 years in the making.

A few match wins if they happen at all will not fix the fitness and physicality issue.

It ultimately does boil down to a confidence issue but the real reason he is not winning is because he is not very fit anymore and gets worn out after 40 minutes of hard play.

Of course you can't win if you can't bring the fight with you to fight all day if you have to in order to get your win.


He simply refuses to put in the very hard yards on the practice courts and on the fitness front.

Tony said he checks out in the middle of the match. That is because he runs out of gas.

Simon saw him up close at RG last year. He said Rafa did not look fit and was way below his usual standard.

In the past Rafa would limp around in pain and still found a way to win.


Like I said before it is just going to take a massive amount of luck to capture RG this year.

I am not giving up on him but he has to start working on his game and his fitness otherwise he is going to find himself out of top 20.