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Wimbledon 2022: Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal already train on the grass of Wimbledon’s Aorangi Park

A the same time that Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz have traveled to London, Novak Djokovic has already trained on the tracks of Aorangi Park, attached to those of the British tournament.

Although the organization has announced that practices can be held on the center court and court 1 of the All England Club, the reality is that the 20-big champion has exercised outside the competition courts, which will be ready for action from next Monday June 27th.

Nadal and Alcaraz will share a neighborhood at Wimbledon with Djokovicwith which also will meet this week at the Hurlingham exhibition.

Rafa trains this afternoon, also at Aorangi Park alongside Grigor Dimitrov, and Alcaraz will wait for tomorrow to test himself on natural grass after having played on the artificial grass of the Equelite de Villena academy. Carlos Moy is relieved on English grass by Francis Roig and Marc López remains as coach.

only in the final

In the absence of the number one Daniil Medvedevfor the organization’s boycott of Russian tennis players, and for the injured Alexander Zverev, third in the ranking, Djokovic and Nadal will appear on different sides of the table in the draw that will take place this Friday. That means that the faces could only be seen in a hypothetical final.

It should be remembered that the champion of 22 majors took advantage of his stay in Mallorca to compete over the weekend in the Balearic golf championship, occupying a meritorious fifth place. For his part, Djokovic has been on vacation on the beaches of Montenegro with his family.

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