Rafael Nadal may be leaning on his girlfriend Maria Francisca Perello to get through the tough times. After his injury the King of Clay has been plotting his comeback, but it hasn’t been so easy.

With all the pressures of being the former world number one, Rafael Nadal looks into the future with not so much confidence.

According to APT Word Tour, Rafael Nadal admitted: “I’m not the favourite for anything. I have been playing worse than the rest of the rivals of mine. The pressure is not for me… I am arriving here with the motivation to do something better than what I am doing.”

Sounds like his girlfriend Maria Francisca Perello is doing some work to get his confidence back up.

Rafael Nadal has a daunting task in front of him - to regain his old glory at French Open 2015. Seeing how the King of Clay has slipped in Miami Open, being defeated by his countryman Fernando Verdasco, Rafael Nadal seems to have deprioritized his relationship with his girlfriend Maria Francisca Perello.

Rafael Nadal won his first title in nine months at this year’s Argentina Open. That definitely put him in the mood to talk about his future with girlfriend Maria Francisca Perello. But that changed when Fernando Verdasco put him to his place at Miami Open.

Tennis Magazine reports that according to an interview the King of Clay gave to La Nacion, he expressed an interest to have kids and start his own family soon.

He said, "I am quite a family person, my education has been towards family. You never know what will happen in the future, but I understand that I will form a family, have kids, I do not know how much. I love children, but one does not decide unilaterally, it takes two. I would like to have more children, but I cannot say whether two, three or four."

Health has been a big part of Rafael Nadal’s recent withdraw from tennis games so his comeback at Argentina Open means a lot to the king of clay. His left wrist injury stopped him from participating in any tennis tournaments after US Open 2014. When his appendix gave out towards the end of the year, he really had to pull out of major tournaments.

Before his wins at Argentina Open, Rafa Nadal seemed pretty downcast in the way he was foreseeing his career unfold.

"Every match is hard," Nadal told reporters. "It's a re-starting for me and we'll see how I am. I'm confident I'm going to keep improving in practice. All the comebacks [from injury] are tough. Every match is dangerous, even when you are in good shape, so imagine if you've only played as much as I have the last few months."

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