All set for Rafa Nadal’s return. The Spaniard begins this Sunday morning in the doubles draw at the Brisbane tournament, where he will once again be paired with Marc López, with whom he won gold at the Rio Games, although we will have to wait to see him in action in the individual tournament. until Tuesday, when a rival from the previous stage is measured.
Nowadays, the champion of 22 Grand Slam titles spends his days training hard at the tournament facilities. He does it with Carlos Moyà and Marc López on the track, and with the support from the stands of his wife, Mery, and his son, who will not miss the long-awaited reappearance of his father.
Little Rafael has been a star lately for a video where he starts holding a racket (with his left hand, by the way) to accompany his father on the training court.
The image spread like wildfire, touching fans around the world, who could see how his idol’s happiness becomes complete, on and off the track.
Moreover, luck accompanied Nadal in the draw for the Brisbane tournament because, in addition to making his debut against a player from the previous round, in the round of 16 he will face the winner of the duel between the Russian Aslan Karatsev (35th) and the Australian Jason Kubler (102nd) .
The French Ugo Humbert (20th) in the quarterfinals and the second favorite, the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (14th), in the semifinals They will be theoretical opponents. Dimitrov and Scot Andy Murray, another former number 1 in the draw, will set up the most interesting first round clash.
The danish Holger Rune (8th), the tournament’s top seed, and Americans Ben Shelton (17th) and Sebastian Korda (24th) are at the top of the draw and they would be Nadal’s only rivals in a hypothetical final, although the Manacorí tennis player himself greatly lowered expectations about his performance by not really knowing what level he could offer from the start on his return to the courts.
Source: La Verdad
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