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Rafel nadal will be confined, along with fifty tennis players, in Adelaide (Australia) in the mandatory quarantine that you must comply with to participate in the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season, which takes place from 8 to 21 next February.
Nadal, who leaves this week for the antipodes, will play in Adelaide the ‘A Day at the Drive’, a one-day tournament that will be held on January 29 before the public in a number yet to be determined. Nadal will debut before Djokovic and, from February 1 to 5, will play the ATP Cup, a team tournament together with Bautista, Carreno and Granollers.
In 2016 Roger Federer accompanied Nadal on the center court of the Rafa Nadal Academy on the occasion of the inauguration of the sports center. Four years later another Swiss player, Antoine Bellier, has shared the center court with the manacorí after winning the ITF tournament that was played this week at the Academy. Bellier beat the French yesterday Evan Furness by 7-6, 6-4.
In this way, Bellier succeeds in the record of Carlos Alcaraz, which just a year ago won the two ITF tournaments that were played at the Rafa Nadal Academy.
In this second week of competition, proper names such as the Italian will fight for the title Stefano Napolitano, the young Danish talent Holger Rune or this week’s champion Antoine Bellier. The Spanish players from the Academy Daniel Rincón (champion of the 2019 Orange Bowl) will also fight to gain a foothold in the professional elite, Pedro Vives O Mark Ktiri.
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