Nadal upbeat about forthcoming clay season

After an injury marred 2014, Rafael Nadal was more upbeat about it being a great start to the 2015 clay court season than about his loss yesterday to Novak Djokovic at the Monte Carlo Masters.

Nadal picked up his first Top 10 win since the French Open Friday beating David Ferrer, and showed some glimpses of his old self yesterday against Djokovic.

Nadal will now head to Barcelona where he is a 9-time champion, but lost last year in the quarterfinals to Nicolas Almagro. After his semifinal loss, Nadal, who will move back to No. 4 in the rankings, met the press.

“No. I think I played well for moments. Remain to be played a little bit more. As I say yesterday, maybe I don’t know if was too early. I was able to play at the right level for moments to compete against a very, very tough player, best player of the world like Novak is today” he said.

When asked about whether he would be 100% fit for Roland Garros, this is what he had to say:

” I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. I don’t know what’s going to happen in three weeks, one month. I cannot predict the future. I am not that arrogant to say yes because tomorrow anything can happen in life. You have to respect all the things that can happen in this life to answer yes or no. The right answer is that we’ll see. I will do all the things I can to be ready for Barcelona, then for Madrid, then for Rome, then for Paris, if I have the chance to do it. Every tournament is very important. We’ll see what’s going to happen.”