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Will Rafa Nadal get his 13th Roland Garros?

photo_camera AP PHOTO/MICHEL EULER - Rafa Nadal celebrates his 12th Roland Garros tournament title on 9 June 2019

Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal, the king of clay, is already in the final of the prestigious French tournament at Roland Garros, which will be held on Sunday 11 October. His rival in Paris will be the Serbian Novak Djokovic, who arrives at the Paris event in better physical shape than the Spaniard. Although it needed five sets to break the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas: 6-3, 6-2, 5-7, 4-6 and 6-1.

A long match that is likely to take a physical toll on the Serb. The Greek Tsitsipas tied at two sets after losing two to zero, but in the fifth and definitive set he sank, in good part because he had physical problems in his left leg.

Nadal was six months without competing and only played two tournaments this year. He beat the Argentine Schwarztman 6-3, 6-3 and 7-6 in the semi-finals. In principle he has everything against him, but talking about Rafa Nadal the negative factors are a motivation for him.

Paris and Nadal are a couple that will remain in the history of tennis, of sport, of motivation, of improvement and of emotion. Whatever happens on Sunday, Nadal will continue to win. His charisma, his image and his legend will endure.

On Sunday, he will bring millions of viewers to the television set. Tennis fans, sports fans in general and, above all, fans of Nadal.

This group of fans and followers of Nadal has been growing year by year since 2005, the year of his first title at Roland Garros. Many of them have never been tennis fans. Others have never even been sports fans. The age of these fans of Nadal varies from young people to older people, the latter being very faithful to the 'Nadalmania'. They are attracted by the courage, the sacrifice, the work, the talent, but also the sportiness, the knowledge of being, the respect for the rival, whom Rafa considers a partner, always.

In front of the television, the grandparents, the fathers and mothers, the daughters and sons, the whole family watching Nadal. Also comments by WhatsApp and social networks.

In this time when sporting events are not very interesting for reasons we all know, Sunday will be a time for Nadal. We will eat with him.

The subject of Nadal should be studied in schools, it had to be a model of a way of life... It brings together fans of all kinds, of all social classes, of Madrid, Barcelona, PP, PSOE, Julio Iglesias, the Rolling Stones, Europeans, Americans, Asians, Africans, Biden and even Trump. 

Anyone who doesn't like Nadal should have a look at .... A phenomenon that this Sunday will surely make us enjoy and forget about the damned pandemic, the confinements and the economic crisis.

Another phenomenon that you will not miss. Pau Gasol will be his first follower. We will see the same thing in Paris, although it will be complicated by the pandemic and the limitation of capacity to 1,000 people. 
Sunday 11 October at 3 p.m. Put it on the agenda!

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