The Spaniard, the top winner of Grand Slam tournaments with 22 titles and who this year has already won the tournaments in Australia and Roland Garros in France, seeks to stay with Wimbledon to increase his impressive record throughout his extensive professional career.
Nadal will be measured in the quarterfinals with the strong American serve Taylor Harry Fritz (14), who previously got rid of Australian Jason Kubler (99) without mitigating problems by defeating him 6-3, 6-1 and 6-4, after 2 hours and 1 minute of play.
For his part, the eccentric and talented Australian Nick Kyrgios (40) beat American Brandon Nakashima (56) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), 3-6 and in an exciting and changing match. 6-2, after 3 hours and 11 minutes of an exciting matchup.
Kyrgios’ rival in the quarterfinals will be the Chilean Cristian Garín (43), who eliminated the Australian Álex de Miñaur (27) by beating him 2-6, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 6- 4 and 7-6 (10-6), in a marathon match that lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes.
Today the quarterfinals will begin and Serbian Novak Djokovic (3) will be presented, top favorite for the title and winner of the Wimbledon Open in the last three editions.
The former World number 1 will face Italian youth prospect Jannik Sinner (13), on the center court of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
Meanwhile, then, the second match of the quarterfinals will be played by the Belgian David Goffin (58) against the local credit, the British Cameron Norrie (12).
Meanwhile, Wimbledon officials announced that they have appealed the $1 million fine imposed by the WTA women’s circuit for banning Russian and Belarusian players from this year’s tournament.
Following British government policy, the All England Club in London imposed the ban in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton has reaffirmed that they will appeal against the fine.
“It’s subject to legal process, so I can’t comment specifically, but what I will say is that we stand by the decision we made,” Bolton said, adding that “we have already appealed.”
According to the Daily Mail, the Lawn Tennis Association, which runs the sport in the UK, was fined $750,000 and the All England Club $250,000.
Russian and Belarusian tennis players were also banned from the Wimbledon preparatory tournaments in Eastbourne, Nottingham and Birmingham.
“We put a lot of thought into our decision,” Bolton said. “It was difficult and complicated and we thought about the consequences. But it was the right decision for us,” he added of the ban.
Players from Russia and Belarus can participate in all other tennis tournaments, but not under their national flags.
Both the ATP and WTA reacted to the Wimbledon ban by removing ranking points from the British grass-court Grand Slam.
The ban meant the likes of world number one Daniil Medvedev and two-time major winner Victoria Azarenka were barred from Wimbledon this year.
Source: Ambito
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