Rafael Nadal is looking for his eleventh Masters 1,000 in Rome, a tournament of which he is the current champion; in the 2021 final, he defeated Djokovic in three sets (7-5, 1-6, 6-3). Today (7:00 p.m., Let's go), against the Canadian Shapovalov, the man from Manaco disputes the round of 16 of a fetish tournament for him.

Nadal debuted at the Foro Italico with a serious exercise against the American John Isner. He needed some good news from the Balearic Islands and found plenty of ground against his rival to recover after the disappointments in California and Madrid, where Carlos Alcaraz chose him from the final. Yesterday, Wednesday, Nadal was seen from less to more, who endured a slight shower of blows from his rival in the first set and then finished reducing it in the second (finally, the match ended 6-3, 6-1).

For his part, Denis Shapovalov arrives at today's match after defeating the Italian Sonego in the first round and the Georgian Basilashvili in the round of 16. Let us remember that, if both advance, Djokovic and Nadal could face each other in a hypothetical semifinal.

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