Coach Toni Nadal reveals that Rafael Nadal has been hampered by a foot issue since the start of his career but his career turned out much better than the doctors expected. Nadal, 35, played in only one event in the second part of the 2021 season. After losing in the French Open semifinal, Nadal took a two-month break to treat his foot. Nadal returned to action in Washington, where he suffered a shock loss to Lloyd Harris. Shortly after the loss, Nadal called it a season. Nadal made an impressive comeback to tennis this past January as he captured back-to-back titles at the Melbourne Summer Set and Australian Open. “He dragged the problem from Estoril, in 2004. In 2005 we already knew what he had (a dysplasia that deforms a bone in his foot),” Toni told La Vanguardia.”The first …