Nadal qualified for Roland's half.

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Alessandra Tarantino / AP / SIPA

Rafael Nadal qualified on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday for the semi-finals of Roland Garros at the expense of the young Italian Jannik Sinner (75th) at the end of a match which will remain engraved in the history of the tournament.

The players did not start their clash until 10:30 p.m., after Swiatek's victory over Trevisan in the final women's quarter-final, to end in about an hour and a half.

Happy to reach the semi-final of his tournament again, Nadal did not fail to express some reservations about this late programming.

“The problem is the weather, of course it's not ideal to finish at 1:30 am, but it's mostly too cold to play.

It is very, very cold.

Tennis is a sport where you have a lot of down time.

I think it's a bit dangerous for the body to play in these conditions, ”said Nadal.

Nadal chilled but not pissed off

“I don't know why they scheduled five games at the Central, there was a risk that there would be long games, bad luck, that's what happened.

I tried to be patient, understanding and to stay in good spirits, ”he continued.

To the four matches scheduled daily on Central court, a fifth was added on Tuesday morning, with the last round of 16 in the women's draw which could not be played the day before because of the rain.

Asked whether he had disliked this situation, the Mallorcan remained phlegmatic.

“I would not miss any more that I start angry a quarter-final of Roland-Garros… No, I accepted the situation.

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Revenge against Schwartzman

About his performance, "I managed to play better and better as the match progressed, I'm only playing my second tournament in six months and I'm in the semi-finals, that's good news", summarized Nadal.

It must be said that in front, there was much to face this Jannik Sinner completely uninhibited and who will probably go very far and very quickly in his career given what he has demonstrated since the start of the tournament.

Deprived of competition for six months by the Covid-19 pandemic, the world No. 2 did not return to the circuit until mid-September in Rome, where Diego Schwartzman stopped him in his third match, in the quarterfinals .

It is precisely the Argentine that he will face for a place in the final on Parisian clay.

We can not wait to be there.

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