Rafa Nadal's retirement from the tennis courts was a sad one. Nadal lost one his final tennis match against Botic van de Zandschulp and later Carlos Alcaraz and Marcel Granollers lost their doubles, so Spain was eliminated from Davis Cup by the Netherlands.
This was supposed to be Nadal's grand week: even if Spain didn't win, he was expected to receive a grand tribute in the semi-final Friday or even the final on Sunday (some people had paid thousands of euros to get into Nadal's potential final games).
But Spain's premature elimination from the tournament came as a shock and was even controversial - should Spain's captain David Ferrer left Nadal on the bench, given he was clearly not fit to compete?
A tribute was later paid, with a