Roger Federer and Nadal could inaugurate the new Real Madrid stadium!

After Match for Africa 6, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal might discover themselves dealing with one another once more in a tennis exhibition, however this time with a location as evocative as that in Cape City: the Santiago Bernabeu, stadium of the Actual Madrid CF.

The information got here from Defensa Central, a web site very near the membership of chairman Florentino Perez and supervisor Zinedine Zidane, winner of 13 UEFA Champions League. Nadal would have responded positively to the invitation of Actual Madrid president Perez.

The stadium is at the moment closed and is present process renovations which is able to propel it into the long run. The brand new stadium may have a pitch and a retractable roof. We should keep in mind that Nadal is a giant fan of Actual Madrid, and in keeping with the web site that launched the information, the Spaniard wish to inaugurate the brand new facility with a brilliant match towards Roger Federer.

If the Swiss Maestro had been unavailable, the choice can be Novak Djokovic. The works on the brand new stadium needs to be accomplished in 2022, so the eventual problem between the 2 champions won’t happen earlier than that date.

Federer and Nadal

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have clashed 40 occasions; Nadal leads the heads up 24-16. As in tennis the draw is set on the idea of the rating, the highest two seeds have the opportunity of assembly solely within the last and this has meant that the majority of their challenges (23 out of 40) have been performed in event finals.

, together with 9 Grand Slam event finals. From 2006 to 2017, the 2 rivals performed 4 finals on the French Open, three on the Wimbledon Event and two on the Australian Open. Nadal received six of these 9 finals, shedding the primary two in Wimbledon and the final in Australia.

4 of those 9 finals made it to the fifth set (Wimbledon 2007 and 2008 and Australian Open 2009 and 2017), and the 2008 Wimbledon last was cited by many as essentially the most stunning and thrilling sport in tennis historical past. In addition they confronted one another in 12 Masters Collection finals, together with a really lengthy last on the Rome Masters in 2006 that lasted over 5 hours and ended with a fifth-set tie break win from Nadal.