Zaheer B

🚨 After Benfica's 2-2 draw against Famalicão last night, José Mourinho's Benfica remain the only team in Europe's big leagues to be 𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗡 this season. They are 2 games away from becoming 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗦 in Portugal's Primeira Liga. However, they 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗡 the league. That draw means that - despite being 32 games out of 32 without defeat - they are 9 points behind FC Porto because they've drawn 10 matches. FC Porto are Primeira Liga champions.

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner could have beaten prime Rafa Nadal on clay! 💥 Agree or disagree? 🟢🔴

Rafael Nadal was diagnosed with Müller-Weiss syndrome at 19 years old. The navicular bone in his left foot was collapsing. There is no cure. The condition is degenerative. It only gets worse. The navicular is the keystone of the human foot. It catches the head of the talus and connects to the first three toes. It absorbs the majority of load when you change direction. In tennis, players change direction hundreds of times per match. On clay, where the surface forces you to slide into every shot, the stress on that bone multiplies. His sport demands exactly the one thing his body could no longer do without pain. He won 22 Grand Slams after the diagnosis. Fourteen of them at Roland Garros, the clay court tournament that punished his foot the hardest. His record there: 112 wins, 4 losses. A 97% win rate across 23 years at the single venue that required the most from the bone that was failing him. For context, the other Grand Slam dominance records: Djokovic at the Australian Open has a 91% win rate. Federer at Wimbledon had 88%. Nadal's 97% at Roland Garros isn't just the best in tennis. There may not be a comparable number in any individual sport at any single venue, ever. He once told reporters he doesn't remember what the feeling of playing without pain is. The condition is most common in women aged 40 to 60. He got it at 19 and kept winning for 19 more years. The Rafa documentary drops May 29. During the French Open. The tournament he won 14 times will be happening without him while 300 million subscribers watch what it actually cost him to own it. He turns 40 on June 3. Netflix timed this so the stadium that was his is full of players trying to fill a void that 97% says might be permanent.

Tennis Before Rafa: Tennis seems like a cool sport. During Rafa: Young Nadal is so cool. Runs around the tv room stressed, excited, heart broken & full of joy for 20 years. After Rafa: Thank God for Sincaraz but will never experience the emotions of watching Rafa ever again.

Tennis Before Rafa: Tennis seems like a cool sport. During Rafa: Young Nadal is so cool. Runs around the tv room stressed, excited, heart broken & full of joy for 20 years. After Rafa: Thank God for Sincaraz but will never experience the emotions of watching Rafa ever again.