On November 13th, local time, the ATP year-end finals will officially kick off in Turin, Italy. At that time, the 8 top players led by Nadal will be divided into two groups, and the semi-finals will be generated in the form of a single round-robin group. , and then through two semi-finals and a final this year's year-end finals champion was born. There is no doubt that as Nadal, who has never been involved in the year-end finals champion before, this tournament is of great strategic significance to him. .
It is worth mentioning that although it is generally believed that Nadal was assigned to a relatively easy group, the other three players in the group are Aliasim, Ruder, and Fritz, but attentive fans found that, Nadal's three games are actually not easy to play. In the first round, his opponent was Fritz, a career bitter player from the United States.
Why do you say Fritz is Nadal's bitter master? Nadal was very unlucky in his two encounters with Fritz this year. First, in the Indian Wells Masters final, he played with a fractured rib injury. Not only did he lose the championship, but also aggravated the injury and disrupted the clay court season. preparations; in the subsequent Wimbledon 1/4 finals, Nadal endured the injury with a torn abdominal muscle to finish the game, fell behind twice in two sets and equalized twice, and finally completed a five-set shocking reversal, but he As a result, he withdrew from the subsequent Wimbledon semifinals and affected the trend of the entire North American hard court season.
In order to play the final game of the year, Nadal came to Turin ahead of schedule this year to prepare for the finals. His first partner for training before the game was Fritz! At 4:00 a.m. on November 14th, Beijing time, the two sides will meet in the first round of the group stage. I hope this time Nadal will not be "unlucky" again.
