Rod Laver sends special message to Rafael Nadal on achieving year-end No. 1
Through his official Twitter account the Australian legend Rod Laver congratulated Rafael Nadal for ending the season as a world No. 1. Laver wrote: "Heartfelt congratulations @RafaelNadal on attaining the year-end No.1 ranking. You’ve had an incredible year and still more to come young fella! Rocket."
Nadal and Roberto Bautista Agut will go to Madrid on Saturday joining the rest of the Spanish team ahead of the Davis Cup groups stage tie against Russia on Tuesday. Nadal defeated Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas at the ATP Finals in London while Bautista Agut was the first alternate and trained at a high intensity. They are set to play singles matches. They will have a training session together at 4:00 PM on Saturday, barely 24 hours after Nadal's win over the Greek.
The former world No. 4 Greg Rusedski spoke about Roger Federer and Nadal: "There is no love lost between these two guys. He (Federer) will be happy Djokovic won't have that record with [Pete] Sampras six years world No 1 at the end of the season. We forgot to mention one other guy who is on that list of five - Jimmy Connors has five No 1s at the end of the season. Pete Sampras did it six years in a row. Sampras' one record will survive time."
Daniela Hantuchova believes the Big Three pushed each other: "I don't think Roger would still be playing at this level if it's not for Rafa and Novak and the other way around. So we've been very spoilt and blessed to have all three still playing at their best."
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