Roland Garros passed a sentence on one of the most difficult sporting issues of this edition, in which the main characters played the cards they had a priori directly affected trying to have an impact on a battle also between the rights holders on television in France. In this sense there is a Solomonic solution. Prime Video maintains the meeting, in the evening, on France Television but in exchange for offering it to the country’s public for free.
The program for the quarterfinals of the upper part of the table, which will be played this Tuesday, puts on a star match tonight. The thirteen -time champion Rafael Nadal and the world number one and defender of the crown Novak Djokovic will play no earlier than 8:45 p.m.
Carlos Alcaraz and the German Alexander Zverev, a meeting also with lots of pulling and quality, will focus on the daytime session. About 4 p.m., after two women’s meetings.
Nadal recalled the day before that “to be honest, every match I play here, I don’t know if it will be my last match at Roland Garros. Sana hindi naman ganun, but it is an option that it will. Maging huli. ” The pain in the left foot is compressed, the injury is degenerative. Nadal will be 36 next Friday. Live up to date, no planning possible.
He put this situation on the table also as a call to Roland Garros, to have more favorable reasons for what could be his farewell to Paris. What do you expect not to? His wishes were not listened to.
“I don’t like night sessions on clay. I’m very light, I don’t like to play on clay at night, because the higher the humidity, the slower the ball and it’s heavy especially when it’s cold. A big difference day and night clay games. And I always knew Roland Garros during the day “, Nadal analyzed.
He wants to jump the ball, be pushed into the sky as soon as it hits the ground, be light and collect all the effects printed on it. Cutting arms against a Djokovic who wasn’t very in favor of the night, yes against Rafa Nadal for his style of play. “What I am saying is that Rafa and I would surely make different requests.” Short but accurate.
Carlos Alcaraz breathed a sigh of relief Yes, he wanted to compete at night, but he didn’t want a third consecutive date under artificial lights, after the experience with Sebastian Korda, on Friday, and against Karen Khachanov, on Sunday. Being the only tennis player in the draw doubled. Nadal and Djokovic once went through a night session.
Alcaraz explained that “I’m not saying I don’t like to play at night, but I clearly don’t have time to rest. It all ends late. I finished the game at twelve but then everything was behind it: dinner, physio, trying to relax the adrenaline of the match. It will cost more to recover. If I play a third time, honestly, it won’t be fair to me “.
He would not, not even his opponent, alexander zverevI am convinced this will happen. “If it’s 12 degrees, it’s very hard to pass the ball at 200 kilometers per hour, as I normally do with the serve. I don’t mind playing at night if it’s 30 degrees during the day. When it’s 14, at night it’s eight or nine, and it becomes tennis is hard ”, German review.
“My serve is still slow, my forehand is still slow. But I’m pretty sure I’ll play tonight against Alcaraz, so I’m preparing for that,” he added.
Changing plans. The television war was partially won by Video Prime, which will exclusively broadcast Nadal-Djokovic, as a daily battle against a night game born in 2021 after the remodeling and extension installation was completed, although this time it was opened for free, as a campaign promotion. The remaining matches will be conducted by France Television. In Spain, entirely by Eurosport.
Source: La Verdad
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