Rafael Nadal will make his tennis farewell this week and Tennis Channel will televise it.
Tennis Channel would be the unique residence to the Davis Cup Finals November 19-24, that includes the final match within the profession of all-time nice king of clay Nadal.
Nadal’s Spain will face Netherlands Tuesday, November 19, at 11 a.m. ET, the primary of 4 quarterfinals between the eight international locations which have certified to stake their declare because the 12 months’s finest tennis nation.
The US, led by US Open finalist Taylor Fritz, is amongst them, and begins its marketing campaign for a record-extending thirty third Davis Cup Thursday, November 21, at 4 a.m. ET.
Nadal, who has introduced his plans to retire after the Davis Cup Finals, produced knowledgeable tennis Corridor of Fame plaque for the ages. He’s broadly thought-about to be the best clay-court participant of all time, with 14 singles titles and a 112-4 report on the French Open, beside an unshakable dominance on the floor’s different tour occasions. He’s additionally the one man or girl to win greater than 11 singles titles at one main and was so prolific in Paris that the French Tennis Federation constructed a statue of him on the French Open grounds earlier than he had retired from the game.
Greater than only a clay specialist given his 22 main singles titles, Nadal is one in all solely three males to win singles crowns in any respect 4 majors and the Olympics throughout his profession, and was additionally an Olympic doubles champion. The previous World No. 1 will at all times be related to rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, collectively the “Large Three” who outlined a tennis period and are the one males with 20-or-more main singles championships every.
The 38-year-old Nadal has contributed to 5 Spanish Davis Cup titles, and can try so as to add to that with one last championship this week.