As longtime fans of Rafael Nadal, the hardworking staff was curious about how the Splendid Spaniard would react to Novak Djokovic’s sandblasting of him in Sunday’s final at Indian Wells.

Well, he said this:

When someone suggested the match might have been different if Nadal had won a key, second-set point, the Spaniard scoffed.

“‘If’ does not exist,” he said. “You make or you don’t make.

“That’s always the way — the better player wins and he was better today.” (via the (California) Press-Enterprise)

Classy. That’s always the way with Rafa.