“It wasn’t the decision I wanted, but it was the most prudent after what happened“. Rafa Nadal regrets that his match with Jiri Lehecka is scheduled for 10 pm this Tuesday. Also because he doesn’t usually like to play at night, when the ball is heavier and the speed is lower, There is another compelling reason: the rivalry between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.
His team is playing in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Champions League and He took to the court to seek a place in the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid Opena problem he was able to solve halfway through.
And, voluntarily or not, the former world number 1 ended up knowing what was going on at the Allianz Arena. In fact, Vinicius caught him 2-2 in one of the breaks.
The shouts of celebration from the public alerted him and he couldn’t stop clapping.. All this, before returning to the court to try to overcome a match that has been very difficult for them.
In the end, Madrid drew 2-2 in Munich and Nadal could not handle the momentum of Czech Jiri Lehecka and was eliminated in the round of 16 of a Masters 1000 in Madrid that he played for the last time.
The 22-year-old Czech won 7-5 6-4 in two hours and two minutes and advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament where he will face Russian Daniil Medvedev, third seed, who previously left Kazakh Alexander Bublik (7-6(3) and 6-4.
Nadal, who could only match Lehecka’s run in the first set, will leave the Madrid Masters 1000, which he has played twenty times and won five times.
Source: La Verdad
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