Madrid can be the beginning of Rafael Nadal's success - Lopez
In a conference call, the Madrid Open Tournament Director Feliciano Lopez commented on the Rafael Nadal's chances in the Spanish event. Nadal won the title five times and last year he lost to Dominic Thiem in the quarter-finals. "Hopefully it's a good week for Rafa, because he was the most important guy in the tournament, making it grow a lot, with his breakthrough and all his titles. I would like to wish him the best of luck and hopefully it's the beginning of a successful clay season," said Lopez.
On his new role as Tournament Director, Lopez said: "I am learning a lot of new things. As a tennis player sometimes you do not care about the things that are behind tournaments and that's logical, but here there are 50 people who work throughout the year so that when it happens everything is perfect. On every section you have very high level people. It's a great environment to work in."
Lopez finally praised the former player and Madrid Open organizer Alberto Berasategui. "He was first a player like me, then my coach and now my colleague in it. This tournament is unique. There is no tournament that has such a dimension, doing different things that others do not do. They speak to me about the tournament around the world, we are best in the world for the way we treat players. And our courts get praised a lot. This is a young, innovative and technological tournament, we have high speed WiFi in the Caja Magica."
Lopez plans to play in Geneva and in the French Open after working in Madrid, where he cannot compete per rulebook as he is the tournament director.
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2Ly0iPw
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