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Rafael Nadal says he feels emotionally prepared for ending his career at next month’s Davis Cup Finals but the Spaniard will only contest the singles if he is “ready to win”. The 22-time Grand Slam champion announced last week that he will retire from tennis after representing Spain in Malaga, where the Davis Cup will […]
As far as deathbed scenes go, my mother’s wouldn’t tug on many heartstrings. Her last words to me before she died were: ‘Shut up!’ I laughed; not because her words didn’t hurt me – they did. But because this was such a familiar phrase, coming from the woman who’d tried to silence me all my […]