Nadal 'vs' Djokovic in Paris, London and New York: the scenes of the greatest battle in history

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  This is how we told you about the final in Australia

A logical development of the story, taking into account the jurisprudence, would suggest that Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic

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It is futology, of course, because we are talking about sport, and there are many things that can happen from now until August 28, when the fourth Grand Slam tournament of this year begins in New York.

At the moment, Djokovic, who will turn 36 on May 28, the date of the start of Roland Garros, looks full, having just won his tenth Australian Open, with the number 22 already hanging around his neck and an impressive career, which invites us to remember

or, without going that far, the player who was one match away from becoming the third in history to win all the

in the same season less than two years ago.

He has 17 consecutive victories on the circuit

and, since he lost precisely to Nadal in the quarterfinals of the last Roland Garros, he has won Wimbledon, Tel Aviv, Astana, the ATP Finals and the most fruitful of his greats, with only one defeat along the way. in an official match, against Holger Rune, in the final of the Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy.

On the other side of the ring, Nadal, who will turn 37 on June 3, remains stranded with an injury to his left leg against Mackenzie McDonald in the second round of the Australian Open.

The tests carried out on January 26 at the Tecknon Tennis Clinic in Barcelona confirmed the results of the first tests.

In three weeks he will undergo a new evaluation.

in the second week of March, although his return could be delayed.

Only three defeats in Paris

Nadal has won Roland Garros 14 times, he has 112 victories in a tournament where he has only lost three matches, two of them against Djokovic, in the quarterfinals of 2015 and in the semifinals of 2021. Under normal circumstances, and waiting for his evolution, he

, even if he arrives with a lower ranking than usual.

Right now he is sixth in the ranking.

Rafa Nadal, in the old Australian Open.EFE

If Australia is, by far, the scenario that guarantees him the greatest success, Djokovic, who returns to number 1 in the world, has also become strong at Wimbledon, where he has won seven titles and has not lost a match since the quarterfinals in 2017, when he retired injured with the score down against Tomas Berdych.

A win this summer

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Nadal and Djokovic face their particular

with a fairly narrow balance on all fronts.

With his victory in Melbourne, Djokovic has a total of 93 titles, one more than the Spaniard.

He has 38 Masters 1000s, to 36 from the lefty, and leads by 30-29 in the face between the two.

The Serbian appears with a certain advantage, also physically, in this exciting race whose outcome does not venture too far, given the age of both.

Nadal, in any case, has far from said the last word about him.

The frontal combat does not exclude the interference of third parties, with

, great protagonist of the past exercise, current champion of the United States Open and outgoing world number 1,

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