Nadal wants to get into Federer's sky in Paris

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It is almost tradition that

in the final exam somewhat more fatigued, like the student who finished preparing the subjects at the last minute, who stole time at night who knows if leaving some subject in the air.

We are talking about Paris, this city yesterday with more open skies, but cold, although far from the polar temperatures that

pointed to a few days ago

.

We are talking about Roland Garros, where

, the most diligent student, the teacher, could recite successive and genuine hendecasyllables created over three decades, also confront, in front of his usual adversary, individual verses, those he wrote with a mime that here, in his land, he continues to rank as the first of the class.

.

Because again in Paris, in this different city, in this world turned upside down, the two men who have seen each other most times in the confined space of a tennis court take the stage (3:00 p.m., DMAX), as Djokovic recalled after overcoming the penultimate revalidation with the water around his neck, on Friday night, against

.

There are already 55 occasions in which they were cited and the Serbian has three more victories in a global that imposes obligatory nuances.

We said, yes,

neat, immaculate, until

arrived

, the boy who with his good work led him to lose his head in New York, with the misfortune of ending up fired from the United States Open.

Pablo returned again, at this Roland Garros, and put his feet on the ground, in a foretaste of what would be the frantic dance to which he was led by Tsitsipas.

Nadal, in Paris continues to travel on

.

He changes the calendar and the instruments of work, the wind blows and the heavens spill over, the light is made, the roof is laid, the universe cracks and paralyzes, but he continues there, unperturbed, ready to complete the persecution undertaken already ago. much of the colleague, now absent, who still looks only on the edge of the most distinguished.

On the afternoon of this Sunday,

can have at his side, no less than 20 of the greats, the player who saw emerge precisely here, in a prolonged 2005 semifinal at Roland Garros with the splendor of the best events.

The first of the 12

The boy then with thick hair who one day after desecrating the effigy of the Swiss genius was going to hang the first of the 12 golds in the promised land, the first of the 19

, has within his reach to share the same sky, to rise to the altars and discuss the existence of a single god.

Since Federer won his first

at Wimbledon in 2003, he

has always been ahead of Nadal.

If anyone can doubt that the names of the two best players in history line up evenly, it is none other than the third man, also strong in his longing for eternal glory.

Because Djokovic, 17 of the greats, very whole after the agitated dialogue with Tsitsipas, discarding the concerns that his physique could leave in the previous trance with Carreño, is 17-7 down in the disputes on clay, 6-1 when they were held a walk from Porte d'Auteil and 9-6 in the tournaments of the dimension in question, but he has the privilege of being one of the only two brave men who broke the hand of Hercules in a fiefdom of which he has done his best heritage.

He said

, the ideologist and instructor of that racket porte indestructible, technical and intellectual architect of the prodigy, predecessor bank Moyà, than any other adversary raises problems as serious in approach as Djokovic.

Djokovic, in a forced return during his match against Tsitsipas.

When it came to choosing some of the most significant victories at Roland Garros, Nadal remembered the 2012 final, against Djokovic, which occurred after the Serbian had beaten him consecutively at the Australian Open, that same year, and the previous season at the US Open.

'Nole' has generated disturbing sequences for Nadal, such as the seven wins in a row between Indian Wells, in 2011, and the aforementioned marathon match in Melbourne.

Of the last 20 duels between the two, 14 have been won by 'Nole';

eight of them were on land, where victories were shared.

Of the last 10, seven were taken by the Balkan, but Nadal won three of the four on clay.

Of the last five, the Spaniard won in three, but lost in the 2018 Wimbledon semifinals, 10-8 in the fifth, and in the 2019 Australia final, 6-3, 6-2 and 6-3, the most victory. Clara de Djokovic in a best-of-five-set match.

No one has beat Nadal more times in a big one: six.

No one has beaten the Serbian more times in the same hierarchy sphere: nine.

Gallons purchased

In a revolutionized tournament, in which surprising events were predicted, the two best on the planet once again challenge each other in another definitive chapter of the long series, without the forecasts clearly deciding on either of them.

Nadal has the weight of the colossal gallons acquired, but he knows that he is less favorite than in other occasions, and not only because of the magnitude of the opponent.

It has been written from the beginning, Djokovic himself reiterated after opening a gap in the final: to a certain extent, we are in another tournament.

But it is also legal to stick to Moyà's words before the start:

is Philippe Chatrier, we are still at Roland Garros and Nadal, now even more than two weeks ago, has once again shown that he knows how to overcome adversity.

Djokovic, like Federer, is one of the reasons that have helped him grow.

Today, with extenuating circumstances, he could have the last word to win, in addition, his hundredth match in this tournament.

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