Rafa Nadal made his first contact with the clay courts of the Montecarlo Bay Hotel & Resort this Friday, Where he will play the Monte Carlo Masters 1,000 from this Sunday, his first tournament of the clay tour.
It will be the first tournament for Nadal after the Australian Open, where he lost in the quarterfinals to Stefanos Tsitsipas, and where he will arrive after overcoming his back problems that weighed him down in the first Grand Slam of 2021 and made him renounce the tournaments in Rotterdam, Dubai and the Masters 1,000 in Miami.
Nadal himself will celebrate in this way his return to the clay of Monaco with a photo on Instagram and the comment. “Good Morning! Back to Monte Carlo. One of my favorite places. Let's go! “Monte Carlo is presented as Nadal's first great appointment in his defense of the clay court throne with the assault on his fourteenth Roland Garros as a great challenge.