Rafael Nadal is going to skip Wimbledon, as expected, and instead prepare for the Paris Olympics by entering a clay-court tournament in Bastad, Sweden.
UpdatedRafael Nadal is going to skip Wimbledon, as expected, and instead prepare for the Paris Olympics by entering a clay-court tournament in Bastad, Sweden, he hasn't been to in 19 years.
The Summer Games will hold the tennis competition at Roland Garros starting on July 27. That is the site of the French Open, where Nadal has won a record 14 titles. After his exit against Zverev in Paris, Nadal was asked about participating at Wimbledon, which runs from July 1-14. “But I don’t think it’s going to be smart, after all the things that happened to my body," Nadal continued," now make a big transition to a completely different surface and then come back immediately to clay.”
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