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London (CNN)It’s one of the most familiar scenes in tennis — Uncle Toni rising from his seat to cheer on Rafael Nadal.
But from 2018, one of the most successful player-coach partnerships in the game will become a rarer sight as Toni Nadal has decided to stop accompanying his nephew to tournaments.
“He wants to spend more time with his family and at the academy,” Rafael Nadal’s spokesman Benito Perez-Barbadillo told CNN in a phone interview Wednesday.
‘Good hands’
Although Toni has decided not to travel with Rafael full-time from next year, he will make himself available whenever his nephew needs him, Perez-Barbadillo said.
Just like in previous years, Roig will accompany Nadal at the start of the US hard court swing in Indian Wells in March, while Toni will join him at the next event in Miami before they head to Monte Carlo for the season’s first clay-court event.
“There is no split, no rupture,” Perez-Barbadillo said. “It’s all very natural and organic.”
Toni Nadal told Spanish newspaper El Espanol earlier this week: “Rafa is in good hands.
“I have been thinking this thoroughly. It’s the right time to do it,” Nadal told the paper. “It has been a very long journey, loads of seasons. If instead of my nephew, I had coached somebody else, I would have stepped down much earlier.”
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