Washington, Jul 30 (EFE) .- The Spanish Rafael Nadal trained this Friday on the courts of the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center (Washington, DC) where he will return to competition next Wednesday to participate in the Citi Open, a tournament that Feliciano López has just joined.
The Spaniard was practicing in the morning in the American capital, as the organization showed on its social networks with a video of just under a minute.
Throughout the weekend, those attending the Citi Open, which in its first two days celebrates qualifying matches, will be able to see the Spaniard training in several sessions open to the public.
Nadal’s debut in the competition will be on Wednesday, August 4, with a match in which the winner of the match between American Jack Sock and Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka will face.
It will be Nadal’s comeback from the break he decided to take after the defeat in the Roland Garros semifinals against Serbian Novak Djokovic on June 11.
The Balearic, winner of 20 Grand Slam titles, resigned from competing at Wimbledon from June 28 to July 11 and at the Tokyo Olympics from July 24 to 30 to prevent “any type of excesses” in his body that ” could prevent further fighting in the medium and long term for the titles, “as he explained then in a statement.
In fact, he has not competed since his defeat in the semi-finals at Roland Garros. Now he is preparing for his comeback, with the United States Open, which takes place in New York in early September, as the next big goal on his sporting horizon.
Number three in the world at this time, Nadal is the main claim of the Citi Open organization, which recalls that the Spanish tennis player will be in this tournament a few weeks after his twentieth birthday as a professional tennis player.
On the other hand, the organization announced this Friday the latest additions to the tournament: the Spanish Feliciano López and the Americans Brandon Nakashima, Denis Kudla and Jack Sock.
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