World No. 1 Rafael Nadal will begin his ATP World Tour Finals against David Goffin on Monday evening. The Belgian makes his main draw debut at the O2.
According to ATP, the pair has squared off twice, both times on the slower clay, both this year – in Madrid and Monte-Carlo – where Rafa prevailed each time in straight sets.
Date: 13 November 2017
Match time: Not before 8 PM local time / 3 PM EDT – New York, Montreal / 8 PM GMT – United Kingdom /9 PM CET – Spain, France, Germany, Italy / Tuesday, 7 AM AEDT – Melbourne. To convert to your local time, use this website.
Rafa on playing David Goffin:
After what happened to him at Roland Garros (an ankle injury), it would be really unfair if he was not here. I’m very happy to see him recovered and playing well. Hopefully he won’t play that well on Monday but he’s 100 per cent here and he deserves to be.
David on playing Rafa:
We’ve played some good matches – on clay in Madrid for example was a good match that Rafa won and we’ll try and play another good match here. I’m sure I can play some good tennis against him. I’ll try and play some good rallies, be aggressive and make him run a lot. We’ll see, I have nothing to lose. It will be a good match.
GOOD LUCK & VAMOS RAFA!
Rafa fought like a lion and with a bad knee and it still took goffin 3 close sets to beat him. I can see him limping now. I hope he calls it a year now and gets that knee seen to.
Yes,, what a fighter he is 😍🎾💪🏼 I too noticed the limp 😣😥 Please Rafa, take care of that knee of yours 😘 All the best champ#1 ❤️🍀
Its so sad for rafa. He’s had such an excellent year and is year end no1 but im sure he wanted this trophy to add to his collection. But i think he will have to pull out if his knee is bad. Never mind. Lets hope he has a fantastic 2018 -which will be interesting as stan, andy and novak will all be back no doubt but at what level? It’ll be fun to see it play out.
Such a shame for Rafa, hopefully he will go home now and get the treatment he needs for his knees.
That’s what we call CLASSY RETURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) : ) 🙂 🙂 😉 THIS IS A GREAT MATCH SWEETHEART………………………..SENDING HEALING KNEE VIBES YOUR WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) : ) 🙂 😉 😉 GOD BLESS YOU SWEETHEART………EITHER WAY YOU ARE FANTASTIC FIGHTER & WE LOVE YOU DEAR RAFA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) : ) 🙂 😉
Last chance for Rafa…