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Former world number one Nadal failed to add to his 14 major
titles this year as he missed out on any of the sport's four
grand slams for the first time since 2004.
The 29-year-old endured a difficult year and slumped to 10th in
the rankings in June, although he showed glimpses of his old
power in the latter weeks of the season, beating world number
four Stanislas Wawrinka and number two Andy Murray at the ATP
World Tour Finals and finishing the year ranked five.
"I don't know when that's going to happen and I don't know if
that's going to happen," Nadal, currently in New Delhi to
represent the Indian Aces in the International Premier Tennis
League, told reporters on Thursday.
The likes of seven-times grand slam champion John McEnroe have
suggested Nadal could use the help of a new coach, but the
Mallorcan seems unlikely to go down that route.
"Without Toni, nothing would have been possible," he said. "I
feel so lucky that I have somebody from my family that is my
coach for ever. That's a big advantage in my opinion.
Toni's response was a light-hearted one.
"It's not my decision, his decision. No, maybe he needs the best
coach, but I am not too expensive," he said.
Great rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have both talked
up Nadal's chances of adding to his grand slam collection. Nadal
says he will just keep working hard to "create opportunities".
"2015 has been not the best season possible. The last three
months, I think it was much better," Nadal, who reached finals
in Beijing and Basel and the semis at the ATP's year-ender in
London where he lost to Djokovic, said.
"I'm happy the way that I'm playing now. I need to keep going. I
want to keep going the same way that I finished the 2015 season.
I think that I improved a lot so much in the last tournament.
"That's the way I'm going to keep working hard to try and
continue with that level of the game."
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Martyn
Herman)
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