Rafael Nadal presents himself to these Roland Garros no longer as the number one candidate for the final victory as it had almost always happened in the past years. All this due to the foot problem that afflicts the 35-year-old Spaniard and which did not allow him to play a good tournament at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.
Despite this, of course, the Majorcan remains one of the eligible candidates in a slam that has seen him triumph thirteen times and that has consecrated him as the strongest and most successful clay court tennis player in history.
In the hours before the first round that he is playing against the Australian Thompson, Nadal became the protagonist of a funny video published on the social pages of Roland Garros. In this video, the Manacor bull had to guess past slam champions on clay.
The final surprise was not lacking:
