Rafa Nadal, ovation in Paris: but Roland Garros remains an unknown

Rafa Nadal è in Paris but has not yet released the reservation

Arriving in Paris with the goal of participating in Roland Garros, Rafa Nadal è was warmly greeted by fans upon his entrance to the Philippe Chatrier court, where he held a training session. The Majorcan champion, who is back from numerous physical problems that have marked his last year and a half, has yet to make a reservation about his participation but has already declared that he will do everything to take part in the tournament he has won fourteen times.

Nadal’s participation in Roland Garros would be guaranteed by the "protected ranking", granted to top players coming back from long periods of inactivityà due to injury, althoughé this condition would expose him to encounters with seeded players already in the opening rounds of the slam tournament in which he established his legend as "King of clay".

"I don’t know if I will be competitive at Roland Garros, I would like to play it and give it my all, and then see what happens,” Nadal himself said a few days ago in an interview with 'France 2' -I would like to at least have a chance to compete, if he won’t be able to win a match he won’t do anything, but at least he will have tried".

Nadal recently took part in the Internazionali d'Italia in Rome, exiting in the second round against Hubert Hurkacz: what most ù è remained in the eyes of fans è was però the warmth of the Italian public, who cheered him as a hero. An affection, that of the fans, which is spurring the almost-38-year-old from Manacor to give his all to play in Paris.