Nadal makes his debut against Popyrin at Roland Garros and waits in the semifinals … for Djokovic or Federer!

Rafael Nadal is facing a difficult box in search of his fourteenth title at Roland Garros. The manacorense will make his debut against the Australian Popyrin, with whom he was already measured in the Mutua Madrid Open, and could see the faces before the final with Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer, who go for their part of the quadrant and could be measured in hypothetical quarters Rafa will start his career in the 2021 edition of Roland Garros with the young Australian Alexei Popyrin, with whom he has a victory in his only precedent, in Madrid a few weeks ago. The manacorense is much superior, a priori, to his first rival on dirt courts, and if he wins, he will live a duel with a local tennis player, who will come out of the winner of the qualifying Hugo Gaston, revelation of 2020, and the veteran Richard Gasquet, come At least in recent months. The evolution of Nadal’s team holds as potential rivals the Italian Lorenzo Sonego, in the third round, the also transalpine Jannik Sinner, the great jewel of the circuit, in the second round and a possible revenge duel with Andrey Rublev, Rafael’s executioner in the Monte Carlo Masters 1000, in the same round in which they would be measured at Roland Garros, quarterfinals. 2021 men’s singles draw 👇 # RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/1KbyAN2V3a- Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 27, 2021 Already in the semifinals the reissue of the 2020 final match against Novak Djokovic would be experienced, a very hard bone to which Nadal could jump if he wins all his rounds and Roger Federer crosses the path of numbers one of the ATP ranking. Already in the final, in a theoretically more affordable part of the table but also with great harshness, Tsitsipas, Zverev or Thiem are candidates to reach the title match at Roland Garros. top of the box Feliciano López makes his debut with the Argentine Coria, Roberto Carballés with the Swede Mikael Ymer, Fernando Verdasco with the veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber or Albert Ramos with the fourteenth seed, the Frenchman Gael Monfils. At the bottom, Pablo Andújar will debut with one of the favorites, Dominic Thiem, Roberto Bautista is in contention with a player from the previous one, Pedro Martínez with one of the possible revelation players, the North American Korda and Alejandro Davidovich with the Kazakh Kukushkin. Finally, Pablo Carreño faces the Slovak Gombos and Jaume Munar the Australian Jordan Thompson. 2021 women’s singles draw 👇 # RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/GfB9eJzgHJ – Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 27, 2021 In the women’s team, Carla Suárez, who returns recovered after overcoming cancer, makes her debut with North American Sloane Stephens. The great Spanish hope, Garbiñe Muguruza will face the Ukrainian Kostyuk, while Paula Badosa will play the Danish Tauson. Sara Sorribes in the first round, awaits China’s Zheng.