MANACOR, SPAIN—Expressing remorse about lacking “the superb occasion,” Rafael Nadal introduced this week that he has formally withdrawn from Wimbledon in an effort to spend extra time urgent his tennis racket in opposition to his face to make waffle marks, including that he would now be known as Waffle Face. “As I close to retirement, my staff and I imagine that one of the best use of my time proper now could be to forgo Wimbledon to deal with smooshing my face with the racket,”stated 22-time Grand Slam champion Waffle Face, urgent the nylon strings of his signature Babolat Pure Aero racket laborious into his pores and skin as his coach counted to 100. “I hope my followers will perceive how necessary it’s that I maintain coaching my face to have a grid on it if I need to retire from tennis with the waffle-faceness that I’ve labored so laborious for to realize. Sadly, the marks go away after a minute or so, so I have to keep within the zone, with none disruption, or else it is going to return to being clean, like a pancake. I don’t want to be a pancake. I’m Waffle Face.” At press time, Novak Djokovic additionally introduced his withdrawal from the event whereas holding his racket an inch in entrance of his face, claiming that he was caught in jail.