{"id":26548,"date":"2020-09-14T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rafanadalacademy.com\/sin-categorizar\/rafa-nadal-returns-to-rome\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:25:46","slug":"rafa-nadal-returns-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafanadalacademy.com\/en\/rafa-nadal-en\/rafa-nadal-returns-to-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafa Nadal returns to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rafa Nadal returns to competition this week at the <strong>ATP Masters 1000 in Rome<\/strong> , a very special tournament in his career. It will also mark his return to the court after the break that has kept him away from competition since Sunday, March 1, when he won the final of the Acapulco tournament. <\/p>\n\n<p>No one has won the trophy at the Foro Italico as many times as Rafa, and this year he starts as the defending champion, just as he did last year. On the hypothetical path to what could be his tenth crown in the Italian capital, he could face\u2014based on ranking logic\u2014 <strong>Pablo Carre\u00f1o, Milos Raonic<\/strong> in the third round, <strong>Diego Schwartzman<\/strong> in the quarterfinals, <strong>Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/strong> in the semifinals, and <strong>Novak Djokovic in<\/strong> the final. <\/p>\n\n<p>Before Rafa begins his participation on the Italian clay, we review the best of his performance in 2019, where he achieved five victories against <strong>Jeremy Chardy<\/strong> (R32), <strong>Nikoloz Basilashvili<\/strong> (R16), <strong>Fernando Verdasco<\/strong> (CF), <strong>Tsitsipas<\/strong> (SF) and <strong>Djokovic<\/strong> (F) to achieve the ninth crown of his career in Rome.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Best Rafael Nadal Shots And Winning Moment | Rome 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ipxA8BwLBds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafa Nadal returns to competition this week at the ATP Masters 1000 in Rome , a very special tournament in his career. 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