The Davis Cup will be the final point in the career of Rafa Nadal. The eight countries that will participate have already given the list of tennis players who will be present in Málaga From November 19 to 24, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Spain, the United States, Italy and the Netherlands will compete in the final phase in the José María Martín Carpena pavilion, as has happened in the last two editions. Below, the five tennis players chosen by Spain, who will be under the instructions and captaincy of David Ferrer.
Rafa Nadal
The man from Manacor has already completed his training on the Carpena track. Malaga will be where Rafa Nadal will say goodbye to tennis and he will do so while representing Spain, just as he did this year in Paris at the Olympic Games, in one of their favorite places to get Grand Slams.
After more than two decades of career, 14 French Open titlestwo at Wimbledon, four at the US Open and two at the Australian Open, plus the gold medal which he achieved at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in singles along with the gold in doubles at Rio 2016, the tennis player will say goodbye in the Davis Cup.
He Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia has been the previous exhibition in which Nadal has participated. It was in Arabia that he met one of his great rivals in his career, Novak Djokovicthe Serbian is the tennis player who managed to defeat Nadal the most times, of the 60 occasions in which they were found, 31 victories were for Djokovic and 29 for Rafa.
Carlos Alcaraz
Alcaraz has been eliminated from the ATP Finals that are disputed in Turin. The player from Murcia has remained in the group stage, this after starting his path with a defeat against the Norwegian Casper Ruudwho took the match in two sets (6-1, 7-5), later defeated Rublev in two sets that ended 6-3 and 7-6 (10/8) to reach the last match with a chance, without However, in the duel against Alexander Zverevconsidered the second best in the ATP ranking, Carlos was eliminated and will set out for Malaga.
Marcel Granollers
The Catalan tennis player knows what it is to represent Spain in the Davis Cup since this is shis tenth participation in the tournament. In this 2024 edition, Granollers teamed up with Pablo Carreño and Carlos Alcaraz to face Hubert and Roger-Vasselin (France) and Mensik and Pavlasek (Czech Republic) respectively.
The current number 3 in the ATP doubles ranking He comes from participating in the World Tour finals with the Argentine Horacio Zeballos and the ATP masters 1000 in Paris where, also together with Zeballos, they were eliminated in the round of 16.
Pedro Martinez
Pedro is in the position 42 del ranking ATP singles and 239 in doubles. The tennis player has trained with Rafa Nadal in Malaga, it was on the center court of the José María Martín Carpena Sports Palace before facing the Netherlands, which will be the quarterfinal tie next Tuesday.
Roberto Bautista Agut
The one born in Castellón de la Plana is the fifth tennis player who will represent Spain. At 36 years old and ranked number 46 in the ATP ranking in singles this year, Roberto participated in the Marseille Open and was eliminated by Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi in the round of 32 in two sets (7-6, 6-3).
In his career, Roberto Bautista has won 11 ATP titles, the first ones were achieved in 2014 and he also has a Davis Cup in his record, which he won in 2019. “Rafa will decide if he is ready to play or not. Let’s hope he is well and we will see who plays. I am prepared, I am going to try to prepare as I always do for the Davis Cup. I am prepared to play “, commented the tennis player.
