Nadal, victim of an involuntary injury

An energy bar and two yogurts around four in the morning on Wednesday to end an endless day at Roland Garros, an unusual day.

Since he made his debut in the tournament in 2005, taking the first of the 12 titles,

had

never

been forced to go out on the court at 10:30 at night.

Nocturnal, evident.

Disrespect, too, involuntary, but to everyone.

Alevosía, none, as they explain from their environment, in which they are delighted with the treatment that is dispensed to them.

No persecution, "let's not fall into cathexis," a person professionally close to him tells us.

The change from Babolat to Wilson balls is based exclusively on commercial criteria.

Goodbye to the ghosts.

The truth is that without anyone trying it, the best player in the history of this competition was injured.

Five games were scheduled at

, including the one that opened the day, between

and

, which had been postponed on Monday due to rain.

Usually there are four encounters.

In case the situation could get more twisted, it did.

, the Spanish rival in the semifinals, needed five hours and eight minutes to beat

.

More than nine hours of waiting

Nadal arrived at Roland Garros at a quarter past one in the afternoon, more than nine hours before he could hit the track.

He has a habit of showing up with a lot of margin, but he did not imagine that his party would take so long.

When he went out to the Philippe Chatrier it was 10:30 p.m.

400 spectators resisted and the temperature was 12 degrees.

He beat

in three sets, fulfilled the mandatory press conference and went to the Pullman Hotel, near the Eiffel Tower, one of the two where the players are forced to isolate themselves, away from everything and everyone, also from the closest people.

This Wednesday he will train at four in the afternoon to prepare for the semi-final on Friday.

She always usually trains in the morning.

The problems come more from the temperature than the hour.

Nadal has played night matches at the United States Open and knows how to adapt to the circumstances that can occur in a two-week tournament, as he said after the game, in a serene, comprehensive intervention, in which he did not charge against the organizers .

In the next edition, Roland Garros will officially open the night session, but the tournament, if the pandemic is behind us, will return to its usual dates, the last week of May and the first of June, with temperatures that often exceed 20 degrees. .

Nothing to do with what happened on Tuesday.

The cold was too much for an outdoor tennis tournament.

It was enough to see in the stands

, coach of Jannik Sinner, Nadal's latest victim, wrapped in several layers of white clothing, as if shrouded.

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