Paul Rouget: published on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 11:06 a.m.
A few steps from the Masters 1000 in Paris, Rafael Nadal showed all his qualities with a club in hand, placing sixth in the Balearic Golf Championship.
Sacred for the 13th time at Roland Garros on October 11, in a one-way final against Novak Djokovic (6-0, 6-2, 7-5), Rafael Nadal will be well in Bercy, while he had left the doubt on his participation. “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I have to talk about it with my family and my team in the days to come to make the smartest decision,” he confided after his new triumph. From November 2 to 9 at the AccorHotels Arena, he will therefore defend his chances well at the Masters 1000 in Paris, where he never managed to win. Unhappy finalist against David Nalbandian in 2007, he has since failed three times in the quarterfinals, and three times in the last four. Last year he couldn’t even play his semi-final against Denis Shapovalov due to an abdominal injury. And while waiting to know if he will finally be able to win in the other Parisian tournament, he indulged in his other passion this weekend: golf.
In the world amateur ranking
A passion that could rhyme with reconversion, as the world number two is at ease on the greens. For three days, “the bull of Manacor” took part on his island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands golf championship, a tournament between 60 professional and amateur golfers in Llucmajor. Nadal, who has a -0.3 handicap, managed to finish in sixth place in an event won by pro Sebastian Garcia Grout, surrendering cards of 74, 74 and 77 to finish nine strokes in the- above par. A performance that will be counted in the world ranking of amateur golf. What if Nadal, who celebrated his 34th birthday last June, had already figured out what he was going to do once his tennis career is over?
