Montecarlo. The number one in world tennis, Novak Djokovic, assured this Saturday that he hopes to be able to see Rafa Nadal on the court next month at Roland Garros, despite the fact that the Spaniard continues to have physical problems and had to give up the Monte Carlo Masters 1000. which starts on Sunday.
“As a tennis fan, I hope he can return and play on his favorite clay, at Roland Garros,” said Djokovic, who last year was the champion at the Parisian Grand Slam, where Nadal could not be due to injury.
“It’s a shame to see that he has been out since the beginning of the year. I don’t know how his body is, but he is the player who has the most right to do whatever he wants, he is a legend,” added the Serbian.
After almost a year of absence during 2023 to recover, Nadal made his reappearance on the circuit in January in Brisbane (Australia), but he hurt himself again in the quarterfinals and has not competed in an official match since. He was declared absent successively for the Australian Open, Doha, Indian Wells and now Monte Carlo.
In March he played an exhibition match for Netflix in Las Vegas, in which he lost against his compatriot Carlos Alcaraz.
Monte Carlo, the first major tournament of the European clay season, had to be the perfect setting for his return, in an event that he had won eleven times in the past and that had to put him on the launching pad towards Roland Garros. The road to Paris is now filled with questions.
Does Djokovic think Nadal will be in Paris? “He is the mother of all questions. Nobody knows, only him and his team,” responded the tennis player from Belgrade, without wanting to make a clear prediction about it.
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– 2024-04-12 20:06:43
