{"id":14181,"date":"2025-07-22T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14181\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:46:08","slug":"rafael-nadal-had-jannik-sinners-number-in-dangerous-tennis-match-tennis-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14181\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal had Jannik Sinner’s number in ‘dangerous’ tennis match – Tennis – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rafael Nadal<\/a> won the 2020 French Open without dropping a set, the fourth time in his legendary career that he has accomplished this feat of sporting dominance. His toughest test that year \u2014 in addition to the vacant stands due to COVID-19 \u2014 was a quarterfinal matchup against future Wimbledon champion Jannick Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their quarterfinal matchup got off to a late start. Even though the Spaniard made light work of a then-teenage Sinner<\/a> in straight sets (7-6, 6-4, 6-1), the match ran until 1:30 AM. Nadal labeled playing at that time of night as “dangerous.”<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, the problem is the weather. Having two days in the middle is not a big deal. Of course, it is not ideal to finish a match at 1:30 in the morning. But the problem is the weather,” the French Open legend<\/a> said post-match. “It is too cold to play. Honestly, it is very, very cold to play tennis, no?”<\/p>\n

\u201cI know football players play under these conditions, but is a little bit different. They are all the time moving. We stop, we come back, we stop on the changeovers.<\/p>\n

It is a sport that you are stopped in a lot of moments, no? I think is a little bit dangerous for the body to play with these very heavy conditions. But that\u2019s what happened today.”<\/p>\n

After topping Sinner, Nadal ousted Diego Schwarzmann in the semifinals and longtime rival Novak Djokovic in the finals to capture a fourth-straight French Open title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal won the 2020 French Open without dropping a set, the fourth time in his legendary career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[12935,49,48,12936,5525,615,7627,82,593,1706],"class_list":{"0":"post-14181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-2020-french-open","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-dangerous-playing-conditions","12":"tag-french-open","13":"tag-jannik-sinner","14":"tag-rafael-nadal","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-tennis-section"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}