‘A Promotion for Our Sport’ – Rafael Nadal Has a Different Opinion About the Andrey Rublev and Irina-Camelia Begu Incident at French Open 2022

‘King of Clay’ Rafael Nadal won his third-round match today at the French Open pretty easily against Botic Van de Zandschulp to move to the next round. With this win, he became one step closer to his 14th Roland Garros title. 

Meanwhile, we have already seen some controversial moments at the French Open involving the world no.7 Andrey Rublev and the Romanian tennis player, Irina-Camelia Begu. After winning his third-round match, Nadal commented on those incidents, and also provided his own point of view on how a player should react on a tennis court. 

Rafael Nadal take on the controversial incident involving Andrey Rublev and Irina-Camelia Begu

21-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal sat down with Tennis Channel and talked about many things regarding her third-round victory at the French Open. Meanwhile, when asked about the Rublev and Begu incident, Nadal said, “Well, we talked enough about that. People who knows me knows that I don’t like this kind of stuff… I see both things you know, in some way when you react with emotional stuff even if it is in a negative way, that creates a show. So, in some way you gonna be in the social networks for a while. So, that’s in some way a promotion for our sport.” 

“From my point of view, it’s not a good promotion, but still a promotion. But of course, from my perspective, from my way to understand, the way that we need to act on court it’s not good but I respect every reaction. Of course, if it’s not dangerous for the people who is around,” the Spaniard further said. 

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Meanwhile, both Rublev and Begu have been fined by the French Open for amounts of $8,000 and $10,000. Notably, Rublev dispatched a ball in anger, which almost hit a ground worker. On the other hand, Begu smashed her racket on the ground which flew into the crowd and almost hit a child. 

Nadal will play Felix Auger-Aliassime in the fourth round of the French Open 2022

In today’s match, the Spaniard won the match pretty easily in 2 hours and 11 minutes; The final score was 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. However, the next match will not be an easy match at all for the Spaniard, as the no.9 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime could pose a threat to him. 

Moreover, his uncle, Toni Nadal, will be in Felix’s corner, as he joined the coaching team for the Canadian player’s team last year. Although Uncle Toni already confirmed that he won’t be watching the match from Felix’s corner, his knowledge about Nadal’s game will bring massive value to Felix’s team. 

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