NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal was on the US Open entry checklist launched Tuesday by way of a protected rating, though that does not essentially imply he’ll compete within the 12 months’s final Grand Slam event.
Nadal has been coping with accidents the previous two seasons and enjoying sporadically. He’s collaborating in his first event in 1½ months this week in Bastad, Sweden, successful a doubles match alongside Casper Ruud on Monday, then beating Leo Borg, the son of former participant Bjorn Borg, in singles Tuesday.
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The 38-year-old Nadal received 4 of his 22 Grand Slam titles on the US Open — the place play begins Aug. 26 — in 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2019. He sat out the occasion in three of the previous 4 years, shedding within the fourth spherical in 2022.
He’s anticipated to compete on the Paris Olympics, which begins its tennis competitors on July 27 and is being held at Roland Garros, the location of the French Open. However it’s not clear how a lot — or even when — Nadal will proceed to play after that.
The U.S. Tennis Affiliation introduced its entry lists for girls’s and males’s singles primarily based on Monday’s WTA and ATP rankings, led by the 2 No. 1s, Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner. The 2 defending champions in New York, Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic, are each presently ranked No. 2.
The draw to set the brackets for the US Open might be Aug. 22.
