After the great success of Spanish tennis in the Canadian Masters 1000 with the victory of Pablo Carreño, another piece of news makes fans smile: the return of Rafa Nadal.
Tennis fans rejoice. Rafael Nadal get back on the tracks. The best Spanish athlete in history could not play the semifinals of Wimbledon due to a muscle tear in the abdominal area and now he returns to start his particular hard court tour.
Rafael Nadal will debut in Cincinnati Masters 1000 against the Croatian Borna Coric or against a player from the previous one, since being seeded avoids the first round. And be careful, because it shares a side of the frame with Carlos Alcaraz and they could cross in the semifinals.
The Manacorí arrives as the second seeded (Carlos is third), only behind Daniel Medvedev. It is true that The important thing for Rafa Nadal is his preparation for the US Open and that the title is secondary, but in case of winning the wound, could reach No. 1 in the world if the Russian does not reach the quarterfinals.
“Being number one is fineIt’s nice, but it’s not a goal for me. Health is more important,” she assured at a press conference. “I want to enjoy this week. You have to have the humility to know that the best level can not appear in the first matchbut things are going well at the moment,” he continued.
And it is that, although his goal is to win the last ‘major’ of the season, he wants to do great things in this Masters 1000. During these weeks he has been hammering away to arrive in the best conditions and has been seen completing training matches like the one that took him almost two hours with Matteo Berrettini.
the winner of 22 grand slams he has only won once in Cincinnati. It was in 2013 and, in his last participation in 2017, he fell in the quarterfinals against the irreverent Nick Kyrgios. Now, he will try to break his particular curse in this tournament to return to the top of the tennis Olympus.