Rafael Nadal is getting ready for his return to competitors after a six-month break.© Twitter
Rafael Nadal, absent from the US Open, is getting ready for his return to competitors after a six-month break on the Foro Italico in Rome, the organisers of the Italian Open tweeted on Thursday. “Rafa Nadal is already right here, doing his first coaching periods,” stated the match’s official account with a photograph of the Spaniard, whereas movies posted by followers confirmed Nadal hitting on the statue-lined clay court docket with Stan Wawrinka. Nadal posted a photograph of the clay with the statues within the background on his Instagram account with the caption, “Right here we’re!”
The Spaniard has gained the Roman clay-court match, usually performed in Could, a file 9 occasions. This 12 months’s occasion begins on Monday.
“It will likely be my first match after a really lengthy interval with out taking part in,” Nadal stated on Tuesday.
His final match was in Acapulco on the finish of February, the place he gained. He opted out of the ongoing US Open citing concerns over the coronavirus and slamming tennis’s “barbaric” revised calendar.
The Rome match finishes six days earlier than the French Open, which reigning champion Nadal has gained 12 occasions and begins of September 27.
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It contains a stellar line-up of gamers together with world primary Novak Djokovic, who was dramatically disqualified from the US Open on Sunday after hanging a feminine traces decide with a ball.
Organisers stated on Thursday that the lads’s entry record featured 19 of the world’s prime 20 gamers, with the one main absence the injured Roger Federer.
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