Roland Garros

“Rafa, twelve Roland Garros, it’s unreal”

 

  • Rafa Nadal and Dominic Thiem share compliments at the trophy ceremony at Roland Garros

“Rafa, twelve Roland Garros, it’s unreal.” Dominic Thiem said it and could barely stand the lazy laugh that comes before an event difficult to digest, especially if you are a victim of the deed that is starring the manacorí in Parisian Grand Slam.

“You are an incredible champion, a legend of the sport”, said the finalist, defeated for the second year in a row, this time scratching a set, yielding 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 and 6-1 in 3h.01 ‘ .

Nadal received the Cup of the Musketeers from the tennis player who completed two Grand Slam in two natural seasons, in 1962 and 1969, the Australian Rod Laver.

The Spanish also spared no praise at the ceremony, before the 15,000 people of the Philippe-Chatrier, for Thiem. “Keep trying, you’ll get it. You have a great team and a great family. You are an example, a great worker and always with a smile on his lips. You are a good person, which is the most important thing. ”

And he had special words for his closest people, those who lifted him after the hard stick of a new injury in Indian Wells, which sustained him in the difficult start of the earth. “It would not have been possible without you in the most complicated moments. It is very, very special. It was a dream to play here in 2005, I could not even think that in 2019 I would be here and with the trophy with me. ”

Almost the tears to the champion of 2018, Carlos Moyà, now directing the technical team that forms with Francis Roig, Rafa Maymó, Carlos Costa, Angel Ruiz-Cotorro, Jordi Robert ‘Tuts’ and Benito Pérez-Barbadillo. And Toni Nadal, omnipresent in the career of his nephew.

This time he sat behind Carlos Moyà, next to his brother Sebastià, father of the ‘creature’. In the next row the mother, Anna Maria Pararea, the sister, Maribel, and the fiancee, Maria Francisca Perelló.

He thanked the presence of “His Majesty the King (Don Juan Carlos) and Doña Elena”, in the box next to the Minister of Culture and Sports, José Guirao, and the president of the CSD, María José Rienda.

Rain Pushes Djokovic-Zverev & Thiem-Khachanov Roland Garros QFs to Thursday

 

Roland Garros has thrown the towel at four thirty in the afternoon, after more than four hours without rain tennis, since the games that started at eleven o’clock were interrupted at noon. Faced with the adverse weather, cancellation of today’s Wednesday.

The most benefited, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer, though they could not train, giving up on the indoor track. They are from Tuesday in the semifinals, which will not be played until Friday. They have plenty of time to prepare for their confrontation.

The victims, the tennis players in the top of the table, since the best will be forced to play two days in a row: tomorrow, Thursday, the quarters and Friday, the ‘semis’.

The encounters Novak Djokovic-Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem-Karen Khachanov will reappear in the programming of this Thursday, the 6th.

It also happens with the women’s Simona Halep-Amanda Anisimova and Madison Keys-Ashleigh Barty. The successive winners must go to the track Thursday (quarter), semifinals (now Friday in their case) and final (Saturday.

The semi-final between the British Johanna Konta and the Czech Marketa Vondrous has already been drawn since Tuesday.

The organization has announced that it will refund the price of the tickets to its holders.

In the year 2020 the Philippe-Chatrier center court will have a retractable roof, being the last Grand Slam tournament that will have it.

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