Rafa Nadal will debut against Jannik Sinner at Masters 1000 Rome

Rafa Nadal will make his debut against Jannik Sinner at the Masters 1000 in Rome. The Spanish tennis player, current number 3 of the ATP, will take to the track this Wednesday in an Italic Forum where he has been proclaimed champion nine times. Difficult rival in his first contact with the Roman clay, although the local idol will not have the support of the stands, empty until the round of 16. Eight months later, Rafa Nadal returns to Rome with a new opportunity to conquer the Masters 1000 Italian. The Spanish tennis player, exempt from the first round like the rest of the seeds, has known this Monday who will be his first rival in the Foro Italico. This is Jannik Sinner, who beat Ugo Humbert in two sets. Djokovic’s first meeting in Rome, against Taylor Fritz, who beat Briton Daniel Evans, has also been defined.The draw for the draw held last Saturday outlined a possible reunion between Rafa Nadal and Jannik Sinner, rivals in the quarterfinals of the year last at Roland Garros (7-6, 6-4 and 6-1). The 19-year-old tennis player is one of the jewels of Italian tennis and has already had the opportunity to soak up more of Nadal’s game, after passing through his academy in Mallorca and being chosen to train with him in the bubble of the Open Australia: To meet Nadal, Sinner had to surpass Ugo Humbert, a 22-year-old Frenchman who had imposed himself in the only precedent against both. “First I have to beat Humbert, something far from taken for granted. It will be a difficult game, he is left-handed and that makes me uncomfortable. That’s why I focus only on the first round before thinking about Nadal, ”explained the Italian before his debut in Rome. The King of Clay. Nothing to say.💥 # IBI21 @RafaelNadal pic.twitter.com / py5k2oOIwF – Internazionali Bnl (@InteBNLdItalia) May 10, 2021 Against the local idol … without an audience Sinner jumped to the center court of the Foro Italico this Monday very concentrated and subdued Ugo Humbert, based on whipping from the right and back. Impossible for the Frenchman to keep up with the Italian, a finalist in the Master 1000 in Miami at 19 years old. In just 39 minutes, Riccardo Piatti’s pupil took the first set, (6-2), after having break balls in three of the Frenchman’s four service turns. Humbert put some suspense to the match after getting his first – and only – break ball of the match at the start of the second set and which he saw converted after a double fault by Sinner. But the Italian soon took charge of dispelling any doubts by making the counterbreak and bringing the Frenchman back to earth as he went from 2-0 to 2-4 with another break and his serve. Sinner enjoyed the slightest advantage, idea at hand. that the Frenchman was holding on, ready to find, if they let him, a way to get into the game. But the Italian was not willing to miss his appointment with Rafa Nadal. Sinner closed the match (6-2 and 6-4) after an hour and 29 minutes, to meet at home with the Balearic. The second round match between Nadal and Sinner will be one of the highlights of the day, but the local fans, excited by the takeoff of Berrettini, Sinner and company, will not be able to experience tennis on site until the round of 16, at which time which will be played behind open doors (25% of the capacity).