Rafa Nadal faces a new match in his fetish tournament this Thursday. After winning the Australian Alexei Popyrin in the first round in three rounds, he will meet this Thursday, June 3, in the second round duel at Roland Garros 2021, with the Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the last turn of the Philippe Chatrier (not before 9 pm). The man from Mana has faced the French tennis player 16 times and in all of them he has been victorious, he has not lost any match against the current number 53 of the ATP ranking.The last time they met was precisely here, at Roland Garros, in 2018. That one day Nadal achieved a placid victory in three sets to put the current 16-0 in the direct duel against Gasquet. The local tennis player comes from beating his compatriot Hugo Gastón in three rounds, while the Spaniard had a comfortable debut against Popyrin.Rafa dreams of winning his fourteenth title on clay in Paris, which would be his 21st Grand Slam and would surpass Roger Federer. There is much left for that. First he must overcome Gasquet in the game that is played this Wednesday. Historically it is a rival that Nadal has done quite well, as shown by the head 2 head between the two players where the Frenchman has not managed to add any victory to his locker in the 16 direct confrontations. The tennis player from Manacor comes with motivated after having won the title in Rome and displaying great tennis. Nadal will fight for a spot in the third round of the second Grand Slam of the season. It should be remembered that the Spanish is on the same side of the table as Federer and Djokovic, although he would not meet either of the two until a hypothetical semifinals.The Rafa Nadal – Richard Gasquet can be seen through Eurosport, a platform that has the rights to the French tournament, and will start no earlier than 9 pm, corresponding to the last turn of the Philippe Chatrier.
