“Set aside all the awe and wonder.
Rafael Nadal’s tennis career has long been an exercise in solving riddles, for him and for everyone else.
There were the early days, of wondering whether someone really could play tennis like that. They were the late teenage years when he left everyone scratching their heads over the physics of spinning a ball that darted up at his opponents’ eyes. Then came the question of how long he could play his rugged, bruising, physical style before his body broke down. ” — The Athletic
The key takeaway for us again is spin.