Nadal Hopes To Play At French Open Next Year
Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a return against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during their men’s singles match in the final of the ATP Cup tennis tournament in Sydney on January 12, 2020.Rafael Nadal has restated his intention to play at the French Open next year and remains hopeful it will go ahead, despite withdrawing from the U.S Open due to Covid-19 concerns.
In a rematch of the previous year’s final against Thiem, Nadal prevailed in four sets to claim his record-extending twelfth French Open title. He also broke Margaret Court’s all-time record of eleven singles titles won at a single Grand Slam event. Nadal, defending champion of the U.S Open, would have attempted to tie Roger Federer for most men’s Grand Slam titles — 20. Nadal is the second player to pull out of the tournament in recent days. Ashleigh Barty, the world’s No. 1 women’s singles player, announced last week that won’t compete because of the pandemic.
The United States has more than 4.79 million cases of COVID-19 and more than 157,000 have died. The U.S. Open organisers are creating a bio-secure ‘bubble’ in New York to hold the tournament without spectators. With the professional circuit halted since early March, Novak Djokovic organised the Adria Tour exhibition event in the Balkans but it was abandoned after several players, including the top-ranked Serb tested positive for COVID-19.
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