Rafael Nadal will make a good return to the Madrid tournament before Roland-Garros

“Although I will be fair in terms of preparation and it will be difficult, I really want to play, and there are few opportunities to play at home. I will try to do it in the best possible way. See you in Madrid“, thus indicated Rafael Nadal in a tweet. Sacred five times in Madrid (including four times since the tournament is played on clay in the Caja Magica), the world number 4 has not won there for five years. If the ocher has no secrets for him, the lack of rhythm and the time to adapt will be challenges to be met.

Two preparation tournaments before Roland

It is probably a choice guided by the heart therefore – the Madrid public will be won over to the cause of the Mallorcan – but also by an imperative: to play as many matches as possible before landing at Roland-Garros. The countdown is thus launched for the ogre of ocher who should only be able to play one other preparation tournament the following week in Rome (8-15 May) of which he is also defending champion .

He should thus reserve the last days before the Parisian Major (May 22-June 5) to refine the final adjustments of his rise in training.