MALAGA, Spain — Tickets on resale websites for Rafael Nadal’s farewell Davis Cup match reached asking costs of €24,000 ($25,300) on Tuesday.
Nadal is a part of the Spain workforce that performs the Netherlands on Tuesday in Malaga, and curiosity in buying tickets has skyrocketed since Nadal confirmed this could be his remaining tennis match earlier than retiring.
Tickets may very well be bought just a few weeks in the past for face worth at just below €100, however since Nadal’s announcement, they’ve grow to be sizzling property with tennis followers looking for one of many tickets within the 11,300-capacity enviornment Palacio de los Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena.
There aren’t any ensures Nadal will play on Tuesday, nevertheless. The format means Spain will play two singles matches after which one doubles towards the Netherlands. If Spain or the Netherlands win each singles matches then the tie is completed.
Nadal is ranked 154 on this planet, and has not competed because the Olympics. David Ferrer, the Spain captain, is more likely to discipline Carlos Alcaraz as his No. 1 selection, and on kind, it needs to be Roberto Bautista Agut who will get the No. 2. spot. However that is no regular match.
“The Davis Cup is yearly,” Alcaraz stated on Friday. “Rafa’s farewell, saying goodbye to a legend of the game, sadly solely occurs as soon as.”
Ferrer wouldn’t be drawn on who he’ll nominate for singles on Monday. And Nadal was eager to stress it is workforce first, earlier than any sentiment. “There aren’t any splendid endings. Excellent endings often occur in American films,” Nadal stated on Monday. “It isn’t one thing that worries me in that sense. My farewell goes to be what it may be.”