Between April 13 and 21, Barcelona will enjoy its 71st Open Banc Sabadell-Trofeo Conde de Godópossibly one of the most special and emotional in memory, with the figure of Rafa Nadal at the center of the scene and the very real option of it being his farewell to Barcelona. “There is a good chance that it will be my last year,” said the man from Manacor in December. For this reason, tickets have already been sold out except for the previous weekend and the first two days of the week. Nadal will debut Monday or Tuesday. This year he already dropped out of the Australian Open and he has barely been able to play three games.
“It has been the year in which tickets have been sold the fastest”they explain from the organization of the tournament, already installed in the Royal Tennis Club of Barcelona, where the launch of the central court begins with the lighting. In the month of December, 60% of the tickets had already been dispatched. The phenomenon is curious. The rebound did not come when the organization made the Mallorcan tennis player’s participation official, something that was taken for granted, but when Nadal himself published in their social networks than their workouts They were on the right path and that it would reappear at the beginning of the year.
The attachment of Christmas at RCTB and Godó is total, an idyll that began in 2003 when he began his professional history with a comfortable duel played on April 22 against Costa Rican Juancho Marín, who retired after an initial 6-0 due to physical problems. Since then, everything is tennis history. In Barcelona, Nadal has won 12 titles, although he has not been able to participate in two consecutive editions due to injuries.. His last match was against Stéfanos Tsitsipas in one of the most beautiful finals of the tournament, in 2021 (6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-5).
The Open Banc Sabadell, which is consolidated as an ATP500 tournament, is experiencing a moment of growth and consolidation after the leap forward it has taken in recent years. Next Tuesday the presentation will be held and the list of registered tennis players will be made official, which will again include first seeds such as Carlos Alcaraz, Stéfanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev. The organization is waiting for other top tennis players. In recent years, another of the regulars has been the Italian and recent Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner.
A 90 meter crane in a club with life every day of the year
The Godó is a special tournament for many reasons. Unlike most, it is held in a tennis club that has activity and members every day and that goes all out for its organization. A mix of tradition and avant-garde. “We have life here all year round. Tennis players greatly appreciate that the employees are in charge of taking care of the courts all year round, so they know them and can offer a better condition. There are other facilities that barely have activity, only once a year.“, they remark.
Right now, a 90-meter-high crane, which competes with the one at the Camp Nou works, on the other side of Avenida Diagonal, is in charge of setting up the lighting. Until the day before the start of the tournament, the conditioning work will continue, with the central court, with capacity for 8,000 people, ready to overflow like the previous year. But this time much faster because the occasion and Nadal deserve it.
2024-03-12 05:19:42
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