Rafa Nadal, who injured his thigh in early January at the Brisbane tournament, won the first match of this 71st edition of the Conde de Godó Trophy. She faced Cobolli and won 6-2, 6-3. After the match, the Manacorí, who has won this tournament up to twelve times, considered that he had “a good start.”
“He made mistakes and I played the game I had to play. A logical game, without making major mistakes and playing what I can play,” he said. “I haven’t been able to serve for a few months, I have served little. It’s my first match and I’m not going to start serving like a crazy person. I did it with the caution that my body now demands. It’s part of the logic of the moment, of accepting it and competing with what there is,” he explained.
In this second round he will face the fourth seed in the tournament, the Australian Alex de Miñaur, eleventh in the world and with whom he has a favorable balance of 3 wins and 1 loss.
Rafa Nadal confessed that he does not know how his body will respond. “It’s like a jungle, you don’t know what you might find. The duel against De Miñaur will have a rhythm that I don’t know if I’ll be able to follow, but we’re going to try,” she concluded.
The second round match of the Conde Godó Trophy between Nadal and De Miñaur will be played this Wednesday, April 17. It will begin no earlier than 4:00 p.m. The match can be seen on television on Teledeporte and Movistar and can also be followed live through the La Vanguardia website.
