Rafael Nadal Not Happy About Scheduling Of Matches At Roland Garros

Written by: on 3rd June 2013
French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros
Rafael Nadal Not Happy About Scheduling Of Matches At Roland Garros

epa03729217 Rafael Nadal of Spain in action during his fourth round match against Kei Nishikori of Japan at the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris, France, 03 June 2013. EPA/YOAN VALAT  |

Rafael Nadal is tired of coming up short on the French Open schedule and forced to play back-to-back matches as his side of the draw gets caught up after week 1 rain. And the seven-times champion is seething about the lack of planning which led to his match originally set for Thursday being played on Friday. For the second straight match, the king of clay dropped an opening set on the way to victory.

“Everybody knows that the schedule of yesterday was wrong, that’s the real thing,” Nadal complained. “I don’t know if the director of the tournament, supervisors, guys who take the positions, they take a bad position two days ago (when Thursday was planned).

“I cannot play third after men’s and girls when our possible opponent plays second after girls. That’s not fair. And today I was playing almost three hours on court, and my opponent was watching the TV in the locker room.

“So if you told me that’s fair, I say that’s not fair. Only thing that I can do is be positive, smile, and try to win my match and try to be ready for tomorrow.”

Nadal was particularly troubled by the excuse given to him as to why he was scheduled as he was: “They told me was because (Czech Lukas) Rosol (who beat him in 2012 Wimbledon) had to play doubles. “I’m sorry, but that’s a joke. You have one more week to play doubles if you want to play doubles.”

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