After the organization of the tournament immediately posted a tweet in reaction to Rafael Nadal’s package, Amélie Mauresmo, director of Roland-Garros, also spoke about what the Majorcan’s absence inspired in her. The former player says she is disappointed for the Spanish champion but also for the public and the fans.
Like the supporters of the immense Spanish champion, Amélie Mauresmo believed until the end that Rafael Nadal could finally be ready to resume competition after four months of absence and could at the same time schedule his big comeback on the courts. in Paris. A last hope which was definitively taken away this Thursday when the Majorcan, during a press conference within his academy, announced that he had to skip the meeting at the Porte d’ Auteuil for the first time in his life and that we would even have to wait “several months” before seeing him again on a tournament pitch.
Bad news for everyone, the former French champion in the lead, who regrets this package for Nadal himself but also for all the public and the fans of the record holder of victories in the Parisian tournament, who will not be able to see their idol. at work this year, he who had never missed the meeting since his debut at Porte d’Auteuil (with a first coronation immediately).
“The fate of Rafael Nadal is intimately linked to that of the Roland-Garros tournament”
“I am extremely disappointed for Rafael Nadal, who has to give up his heart tournament. I am also for the public at Porte d’Auteuil as well as for all tennis fans, who will be deprived of this immense champion this year. Mauresmo, questioned on the tournament site, knows it: Nadal at Roland-Garros is even more than that. “Rafael Nadal, whose destiny is intimately linked to that of the Roland-Garros tournament, which he won fourteen times, will obviously be greatly missed. »
