Rafa Nadal y Matteo Berrettini They have entered Wimbledon history by becoming the first two tennis players to train on Center Court before the tournament. The tradition marked that this venue was inaugurated the weekend before the tournament with a girls’ doubles matchin which the players were chosen by lottery among the members of the All England Club.
last year, the center court was more slippery than the rest and in it there were two serious injuries, with Adrian Mannarino and Serena Williams, who had to withdraw from their matches. To alleviate this, Wimbledon decided that this year the tennis players should train in Central and on Court 1, until now reserved only for the best matches, in the week before the tournament.
Rafa Nadal and Matteo Berrettini have been in charge of opening the Central Court as the setting for training sessions prior to the tournament. Both players have played a set that He has fallen on the Italian side 6-4. At the end of the match, Nadal greeted Novak Djokovic present at the Central to start his training.
This was the second training session of the day for Nadal, who previously entered one of the tracks at Aorangi Park together with Francis Roig and Marc López. It was a light training session, with a view to Berrettini’s game, and after beating Stan Wawrinka yesterday in the Hurlingham exhibition.
The Spanish will play again this Friday against the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in Hurlingham, in what will be his last preparatory match before the start of Wimbledon. In addition, Nadal will play that match already knowing his first rival and his path in the tournament, since the draw will take place at 10 am in London this Friday.
