Rafa Nadal, 35 years old, he has missed many months of competition plagued by injuries in many seasons, but he has not ceased to be part of the world top-10 since joining on Monday, April 25, 2005, the day after defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero placeholder image in his first final in the Count of Godó Trophy.
Nadal continues in the select group of the top ten in the ATP ranking, in a classification somewhat conditioned by the adjustments due to the stoppage and restrictions of the Covid that are gradually disappearing as the calendar normalizes.
It is fifth with 5,635 points, of which 2,985 correspond to the 2021 course and not to the results of yesteryear, either 2019 or 2020. It has an advantage of 2,320 over the current cut of a top-10 that already left weeks ago Roger Federer, which is fifteenth.
After the dispute of only seven tournaments, winning 24 of 29 games and conquering the titles of Godó and Roma, it will be the first time since his emergence in the elite that he will not have a place in the ATP Finals, the Masters that will bring together the eight best of the campaign in Turin (Italy), which will debut as a venue after the end of the era at the O2 in London.
Nadal has endured in the top-8 of the ATP Race, the points classification of 2021, until the penultimate week of the calendar, just before the dispute of the Masters 1000 ATP of Paris and the ATP 250 in Stockholm, before the celebration of the Next Gen ATP Finals and the absolute ATP Finals. The Italian left him out qualifying for the semifinals of the Vienna tournament.
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It was within the most absolute logic considering that Rafa Nadal has only played two games in the last five months. On Washington and that they served to verify that the pain in his left foot had not lost the intensity that had already tormented him on the clay tour, which ended without being able to add his fourteenth Roland Garros when he lost in the semifinals against Novak Djokovic.
The special treatment to which he has undergone the punished scaphoid of his left foot, a threat since he almost abruptly removed him from tennis in 2005, and not having added 2,000 points in Paris means that he does not have a ticket to the ATP Finals. An anomaly in 17 seasons.
Nadal had qualified sixteen times, although he played it ten times, losing six others due to different physical problems. In 2021 he reached the semifinals, yielding to the then champion Daniil Medvedev. It is the trophy that will continue to be lacking in a record full of successes, waiting for the intervention in the foot functions and can return in 2022 feeling once again competitive one hundred percent. Your highest desire and priority.
