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Rafael Nadal loses most loved racket in abnormal second in Australian Open first-round

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Rafael Nadal loses most loved racket in abnormal second in Australian Open first-round

'The ball kid took my racket': Rafael Nadal loses most loved racket in abnormal second in Australian Open first-round win


It wasn't all plain cruising for Rafael Nadal in his first-round triumph at the Australian Open on Monday.


Halfway through the primary set against England's Jack Draper, the 22-time huge homerun champ remained with his arms spread as made sense of for the umpire that he was searching for his racket.


"It's this one for the stringer, not unreasonably one," Nadal could be heard clarifying for the umpire.


"I want the racquet back! It is this not one. I want the dampener and everything," added the Spaniard, alluding to the little elastic gadget which tennis players place between the strings to decrease the effect when they hit shots.


As it ended up, the ball kid had taken Nadal's racket with the dampener to the stringer.


"I don't think he has an extra one, so I think there will be a defer here," made sense of Eurosport reporter Fellow McCrea.


In the wake of choosing an alternate racket, Nadal apologized to Draper saying: "The ball kid took my racquet!"


After the match, Nadal portrayed the racket mess as a "interesting circumstance."


"Typically, I have the quantity of the rackets taken care of so I said I really want the stringer, however I want the stringer for the other racket," Nadal made sense of, per Eurosport.


"So [the ball boy] picked the racket I was prepared to play with. In any case, no issue by any means."


Later in the match, Nadal had one more discussion with the umpire when the floodlights seemed to turn on consequently, regardless of the match being played in daylight.


"Presently it is irritating me a ton," Nadal shared with the umpire while facing up to the floodlights. "The mix of lights."


Draper was additionally troubled, with the umpire calling arena staff to fix what is happening.


Nadal required four sets to beat the 21-year-old Draper.


The Briton required the subsequent set off the 36-year-old to even out match however at that point endured cramps as the game created, with Nadal in the end winning 7-5 2-6 6-4 6-1.


Nadal's triumph proceeds with a run of a long time since the last time a reigning champ had fallen in the Australian Open's initial round.


"Last year had been one of the most close to home competitions of my tennis vocation, almost certainly about that," said Nadal, who beat Daniil Medvedev 2-6 6-7 6-4 6-4 7-5 in last year's Australian Open last having lost the initial two sets. "Sadly that passed, so we really want to continue to work.


"I'm really glad to be back here in Australia once again. I don't have any idea, it resembles my nineteenth season on the expert visit.


"I'm extremely amped up for this fresh start… The most recent few months haven't been simple for me, however ideally this triumph will help me."


The Australian Open's favorite will currently confront American Mackenzie McDonald in the subsequent round.

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