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Weighed down by physical setbacks throughout his still short career, Thanasi Kokkinakis, 23, 203rd in the world, suffered one more when he was preparing to play one of the most important games of his life. The Australian could not meet Rafael Nadal in the second round of the US Open due to a right shoulder injury. This was communicated just over two hours before the game should start. The Spaniard enters directly into sixteenths, where he will face the winner of the crossing between Fernando Verdasco and the Korean Hyeon Chung.
Three times champion of the tournament (2010, 2013 and 2017), Nadal won with great solvency in his debut to the Australian John Millman and is the one who advances more lightly of the three top favorites. While Djokovic needed medical attention to treat his left shoulder during the match he resolved in three sets against Argentina's Londero and Federer, he left a partial in each of his matches, against second-order opponents, the world's number two advances intact, with the formidable imprint left in their encounter against Millman.
Four top ten players circulating on his side of the table, Thiem, Tsitsipas, Khachanov and Bautista, are already out of competition. Nadal enjoys, thus, a diaphanous path and is full of energy, something that is not much less trivial on cement, where his knees suffer most. Just as it happened recently in the 1000 Masters of Canada, you will have one less commitment. Then it was Gael Monfils, who could not play against him in the semifinals.
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