There's good news about Nadal, there's bad news.
The good news is that he announced his participation in the Madrid Masters, which starts on May 1, means that he has officially announced his comeback after a month of training. The result of the French Open depends on his results in the Madrid Masters and the Rome Masters.
The bad news is that the Madrid Masters have been signed, and today the French Open has won the top 3 favorites - Nadal, Djokovic, Alcaraz are all divided in the top half, and Nadal is even in hell!
The large seed alignment situation is:
Djokovic [1] vs Rude [5], Alcaraz [7] vs Nadal [3];
Tsitsipas [4] vs Rublev [6], Aliassim [8] vs Zverev Jr. [2].
| Nadal: The hero returns, but he is caught in the hell level!
I have to say, Nadal's signing is really hard!
Although the king of clay does not need to look at the signing table, but after all, the return from injury, the state needs to be slowly adjusted, the Madrid Masters this signing table is very unfavorable to Nadal slowly adjusted, each round needs to be full of firepower to ensure promotion. Coupled with Nadal's God of War physique, he will never paddle with the trend, and he will inevitably fight 100%. For fans, if they don't worry about being eliminated, they worry about physically being overwhelmed.
Bye-round bye in the first round, Nadal is likely to play Kecmanovic in the second round, and the Serbian teenager has a great record this year, and has so far won 23 games, three more games than Nadal. The Australian Open reached the round of 16, beating Berrettini, Fritz and Aliassim, almost pulling Djokovic and Alcaraz into the water. Arguably, Ketzmanovic is one of the brightest players of the year. The bottom line technique is stable and solid, and the defense is excellent.
In the third round, Karatsev/Busta, relatively speaking, this round of opponents is not difficult.
Round 4 high probability Alcaraz. Although the youngster lost to Nadal at the Indian Wells Masters, he also brought a big impact to Nadal.
In the semi-finals, Djokovic was played. Although the first two races were in average form, the overall situation was in a steady upward trend. And the encounter with Deyo before the French Open, regardless of the outcome, is not a very good situation. Hopefully, Dana will definitely play on the French Network, not the warm-up match.
The final was against Tsitsipas/Zverev Jr. If Nadal really reached the final, it is estimated that he has exhausted his strength, and how the final is, the Buddhist system can watch the ball.
| Djokovic: Love the process of slowly improving your status!
Another giant, Djokovic, is also "aching and happy", the clay race has participated in two consecutive races, the Monte Carlo Masters lost the first match, and the hometown Ofe Belgrade reached the final in 250 stops but lost to Rublev.
After the game, Djokovic confessed that he liked the frustration of losing because it meant that he was still eager to win. This is also the terrible thing about Djokovic, who also drove low and high in the French Open warm-up last year, and finally won the French Open.
The Madrid Masters draw, the first round of the bye, this round may meet the old rival Monfils; the third round Shapovalov / Murray / Thiem, Shapovalov is a typical hardfield/grass player, not difficult on clay. Murray and Tim, who have fallen, are far from reaching their peak level; the fourth round against Rudd is a hurdle, Rudd is the standard for testing the players on clay level, and beating Rudd means reaching the top level of clay. He also warmed up well against Nadal in the semi-finals.
If he really reached the final, I believe that Djokovic would win the game like a bamboo and stand on the top of the forbidden purple in the red soil.
The biggest attraction of this year's Madrid Masters is naturally the 59th Dana final.
The second is Alcaraz's battle with the big two, and finally the first round of Murray and Tim, which is also the most difficult to guess the result of the two!