Mexico City /
The Spanish Rafael Nadalnumber two in the ATP ranking, will face the Norwegian Casper Ruudthird, in an exhibition match next December 1st in the bullring mexico.
The organizing company Tennis Fest MX announced the venue and date of the duel this Tuesday on their social networks.
The meeting will be part of a tour in which both tennis players will play exhibitions in the capitals of Latin American countries Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador and Brazil.
Nadal, top Grand Slam winner with 22, will give Ruud a rematch, after defeating him in the final of the past Roland Garros last June.
That final was his fourteenth title at the French Open, the Grand Slam he has won the most in his career.
While Ruud, who has yet to win one of the four major ATP tournaments, He comes from falling last September in the final of the US Open against the Spanish Carlos Alcarazthe new figure of tennis that occupies the first place in the ATP ranking.
Nadal and Ruud will copy in Mexico what they did Roger Federer and the German Alexander Zverev when in 2019 they played in La México before 42,517 fanswhich was a world attendance record for a tennis match.
Back then Federer, on his only visit to play a match in Mexico, defeated Zverev 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.
It is expected that for the duel between Nadal and Ruud there will be an amount equal to or greater than 42,517 fans.
