Rafael Nadal he has pumped up the crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium several times. He has buried the initial doubts, he has cleared his mastery of Italian Fabio Fognini, He began to star in the points open in the stands, especially when he relentlessly turned to his four-time champion.
It was a night of suffering, and it didn’t stop until he finally raised his arms to celebrate his passage to the third round of the US Open with a victory by 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 and 6-2 in 2h.42′.
His nose, covered with a bandage. A strange image in the world of a non-contact sport like tennis that is not common is the accident suffered by Rafa Nadal.
He alarmed everyone with the way he threw the racket, stopped playing and put his hands over his face. They were seconds of intense excitement. He walked over to the chair, laid back. There is the fear of passing out and the uncertainty of not really knowing what happened.
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A replay of the event in slow motion made it clear what happened. In an intense backhand exchange, after a backhand jump shot in a difficult position, the Spaniard’s racket hit the ground. It bounced hard and went straight to Nadal’s face. He sustained a wound from which he bled.
“At the beginning I was a little dizzy,” he said later, with a pass in the third round, against Frenchman Richard Gasquet, tied. Moreover, Nadal is one of the apprehensive. If there is blood in between, danger. “Has this ever happened to you before?” They asked him in the track interview: “With a golf club, yes. With a racket, no,” he joked.
The moment is also delicate. He is in full recovery of the game, he has definitely launched himself for success. At 3-0 he held a Fognini who took advantage of the confusion to put Nadal in trouble for minutes.
Rafa reacted. With a pair of noses.
Source: La Verdad
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