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“Did you see how my racket scratched my back?”

The Aussie quartet is gathered on a recent afternoon around a Griffith Park picnic table, where a small herd of little kids makes a racket on the grass nearby.

In his announcement Thursday, Nadal said it was an “appropriate time” to hang up his racket, calling his career “much more successful than I could have ever imagined.”

If I already wasn’t deaf, the racket surely pushed me along the way.

Chavez told the jury — at times through tears — that he got in over his head with clients who threatened him into going along with their rackets.