‘The tennis ball doesn’t know how old Rafael Nadal is’, says former star

With an extraordinary show of strength, Taylor Fritz climbed to the roof of Indian Wells. It is a historic achievement for him, having won the first Masters 1000 of his young career. And it is a historic result also for the United States, which had not seen a player triumph in this tournament for over 20 years: the last one to succeed was Andre Agassi back in 2001, when he won the final over eternal rival Pete Sampras.Also for Fritz the victory came against a high-ranking player like Rafael Nadal, who reached his first defeat of 2022. Saturday’s hard battle against Carlos Alcaraz practically drained the energies of the Majorcan, who was a victim in yesterday’s final.of some physical problems that prevented him from reacting to the American’s impetus. “Even during the award ceremony I felt …

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