Rafael Nadal Will Play At The U.S. Open

Rafael Nadal apparently isn’t winding down his profession after the Paris Olympics.

The 22-time Grand Slam champion will play the U.S. Open on a protected rating. He was listed among the many match entrants on Tuesday.

Nadal, 38, has received the U.S. Open 4 occasions, most lately in 2019. He final performed the match in 2022.

The U.S. Open runs Aug. 26-Sept. 8.

After skipping Wimbledon to organize for the Olympics at Roland Garros, Nadal returned to singles motion with a 6-3, 6-4 victory on clay over Leo Borg, the 21-year-old son of Swedish nice Bjorn Borg, within the first spherical of the Nordea Open in Bastad on Tuesday.

“For me it has been an enormous honor to play in opposition to the son of one of many largest legends within the historical past of our sport,” Nadal mentioned about his 21-year-old opponent. “I feel he performed fairly properly, he has a future in entrance so I want him all the easiest.”

Nadal received the singles title in southern Sweden as a 19-year-old in 2005 and this week is his first time again since then as he prepares for the Olympic match on clay at Roland Garros in Paris.

Nadal was taking part in his first singles match since he misplaced within the first spherical of the French Open to Alexander Zverev. He teamed up with Casper Ruud on Monday to win a first-round doubles match.

Nadal, who has been coping with hip and stomach accidents over the previous 1 1/2 years, will subsequent face British No. 2 Cameron Norrie.

U.S. Leads All Nations with 25 Gamers Incomes Direct Entry

World No. 1s Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek lead their respective fields within the U.S. Open, adopted by reigning US Open champions Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff, who’re each ranked No. 2 on this planet. World No. 3s Carlos Alcaraz, who has received the previous two Grand Slam males’s singles titles, and Aryna Sabalenka, the reigning Australian Open champion, spherical out the highest entries.

America leads all nations with 25 gamers (15 girls and 10 males) incomes direct entry.

The American girls are led by No. 2 Gauff, No. 6 Jessica Pegula and No. 9 Danielle Collins, whereas the American males within the subject embrace High-15 gamers Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton.

People utilizing particular or protected rankings to achieve direct entry embrace Reilly Opelka (No. 33), Shelby Rogers (No. 51) and Lauren Davis (No. 59).

Each the boys’s and ladies’s entries had been primarily based on the July 15 rankings. The ladies’s cutoff was No. 96, whereas the boys’s cutoff was No. 98.

(The AP contributed reporting)