Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz to miss the 2022 ATP Cup

In an upset for the Spanish team, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz and Marcel Granollers will miss the 2022 ATP Cup, the Spanish media announced.

The third version of the ATP Cup is planned to be held between 1- 9 January, 2022. In their absense, Team Spain will be driven by Roberto Bautista Agut and Pablo Carreno Busta.

Rafael Nadal, who hasn’t played since August because of a foot injury, will make his comeback at the Mubadala World Tennis Championships in Abu Dhabi which starts on 16 December.

He has won at the exhibition tournament multiple times already, and won the occasion the last time it was played in 2019, overcoming Stefanos Tsitsipas in a three-set spine chiller.

The 20-time Grand Slam victor’s plans for the Australian Open stay hazy for the present. On the off chance that he plans to contend, he could play in one of the ATP 250 occasions planned after the ATP Cup, in anticipation of the Australian Open.

Carlos Alcaraz, who tested positive for Covid-19 and had to miss the Davis Cup debut, justifiably needs to have a more drawn out slow time of year to recuperate completely and will be feeling the loss of the ATP Cup. Granollers needs an extended off-season too.

Reigning champs Spain failed to make it to the current year’s Davis Cup. Although, the team contended energetically and lost a nearby definitive duplicates tie against Russia. Triumph in this match would’ve seen them make the quarterfinals.

The Spanish team’s possibilities endured a hotshot some time before the beginning of the competition because of Nadal’s inaccessibility due to his physical issue.

With a 29-1 record in singles at the Davis Cup, he has been perhaps the most productive player for his nation, yet in addition in the competition’s set of experiences.