Due to the injury at Citi Open, Rafael Nadal had to end early in the 2021 season. The Spanish tennis player missed major tournaments at the end of the year including US Open, Paris Masters and ATP Finals. Even so, he has now recovered and ready to fight in the 2022 season.
According to the latest announcement, the first Nadal tournament to attend in 2022 was ATP 250 Melbourne. The tournament will start on January 4 of the following year and last for 1 week. Here, the 'crew king' is ranked No. 1 seed.
In Melbourne, Nadal is also considered to win the championship. Accordingly, the list of participants has no player in the top 20 ATP. The No. 2 seed is Reilly Opelka – 26th in the world, while the ATP Finals 2017 Grigor Dimitrov (28) is ranked No. 3.
Before that, Nadal would not attend the ATP Cup with Spanish tennis team. This is an annual team event to launch Australia to expand and start the first day of the new year. In the 2022 season, Spain is in Group A with the Serbia of Novak Djokovic. Thus, the fans will not witness the competition between Nole and Nadal.
From now on until the 2022 season, Nadal also attended another event, which was the Mubadala World Tennis Championship. This year, the tournament will take place from 16 to 18/12/2021 at the International Tennis Center at Abu Dhabi of the UAE.
Currently, Nadal is the defending champion of Mubadala World Tennis Championship. In 2019, the Spanish tennis player defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final to have the 5th crown in the UAE. He is also the most winning championship, when the new tournament is about to turn to the age of 13.
