Rafael Nadal seventeen times he qualified to play in the ATP Finals, the Masters of the season’s best eight. He held the position from 2005 to 2020, breaking the record streak in 2021 and he returned in 2022, at the age of 36, as number two but with the option to seize the number from the great absentee of the Turin event, from 13 to November 20: Carlos Alcarazfor a stomach ache suffered in Paris and lasting six weeks.
“It’s hard to imagine getting to the ATP Finals in time to win a tournament that I haven’t won in my career,” Nadal explained pragmatically after being eliminated by the American. tommy paul at its premiere in ATP Paris Masters 1000, his return to a circuit he hasn’t stepped on since the US Open. In almost two months of absence, he finished solving the stomach injury that occurred at Wimbledon, and which he suffered in New York, and was able to become a new father.
Nadal is in Italy making his eleventh appearance at the Masters Final, having missed six editions due to physical problems. He was a finalist in 2010 and 2013. A result that would only serve to grab the No. 1 from Carlos Alcaraz if he wins all three games in his group. the greek Stefanos Tsitsipas had to take the tournament with an absolute victory: 5-0. He is the champion in 2019, with 4-1.
The couples in the hype
Rafa Nadal (world no. 2)-Stefanos Tsitsipas (3)
Casper Ruud (4)-Daniil Medvedev (5)
Felix Auger-Aliassime (6)-Andrey Rublev (7)
Novak Djokovic (8)-Taylor Fritz (9)
Dedicated to Holger Rune (10), Hubert Hurkacz (11)
Nadal and Tsitsipas will go into different groups, as Alcaraz’s absence has changed the pairs drawn in the pot this afternoon: from 1-2 it went to 2-3, and so on. The champion this season Australian Open and Roland Garros he is exposed to a ‘group of death’ which is made if he has to compete in the first stage in Russian Daniel Medvedevthe teacher of 2020, the canadian Felix Auger-Aliassimea rookie in this event but has won 16 of the last 17 meetings, and Serb Novak Djokovicfive-time champion
On the contrary, fate will be more beneficial for Rafa Nadal if he has to compete for two places, giving access to the semifinals after the league, with the Norwegian. Casper Ruudwho has run out of steam since his US Open final, the Russian Andrew Rublev and the american Taylor Fritzwhich opens thanks to the disappearance of Alcaraz.
There is also room for a mixed formula, a group design that is not too extreme, neither for better nor for worse for a Nadal who arrives with doubts after having played five singles in the second part of the campaign.
Source: La Verdad
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