The Mutua Madrid Open 2022 is already heating up. The women’s tournament will begin this Thursday with Paula Badosa’s debut, among others. To see the boys in action we had to wait until Sunday, though Nadal, Alcaraz and company training can now be found at the Caja Mágica facilities.
Who viewers can’t see Ferdinand Verdasco. The player from Madrid, number 118 in the world, did not have enough rankings to access the final table of the tournament, and the organization decided not to issue any of the invitations where he had, something bothered him.
“I am the best player Madrid has had in 17 years. I was in permanent contact with Feliciano López and he did everything to get me the invitation, but in the end it didn’t become possible.. The tournament did not give me an invitation when I needed it, ”Verdasco declared after qualifying for the quarterfinals of the Estoril tournament.
“Pouille was a good friend of mine and he got the invitation. The organization of the Paris Bercy tournament would never give me a WC instead of a French place”Added the man from Madrid, who published a message a few days ago on his twitter account protesting the unfairness of that decision.
“We had a lot of tennis players who went to the gates to join and ignored their requests to receive an invitation, “he said.
“We do not understand that the promoting company and the contest owners saw the standard to give these invitations reasonable.“, added Verdasco, on behalf of” many Spanish players “.
“We felt it was very important to let them know how sad we were that we were not able to play in our country and let them know the situation that deprived us of that opportunity.“, he pointed out.
Paula Badosa showed her support for Verdasco by meeting him, on the networks as well, and remembering that last year he participated by invitation and finished “one of the best contests” of his career.
Badosa reached the semifinals, coming in at number 62 in the rankings and began a meteoric rise that brought him to third place in world tennis.
“It’s so sad to see things like this for Spanish tennis. When there is a lot of potential … It’s a huge opportunity for everyone and it’s a shame that the only tournament we have at that level, it’s happening … We need to give our tennis players opportunities to continue to grow ”, said players, whose support was appreciated by Verdasco.
The Mutua Madrid Open decided to invite, already in the men’s main draw, the British Andy Murray and Jack Draper, the Spanish Carlos Gimeno and the French Lucas Pouilleand in the feminine for the Japanese Naomi Osaka, Puerto Rican Mónica Puig, Czech Linda Fruhvirtova, Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk and Chinese Qinwen Zheng.
Source: La Verdad
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