Rafael Nadal leaned forward and locked his gaze on the table that was inches from his face. He spoke in a monotone to the reporters who surrounded him, saying little and moving less. Had he shifted even a few inches one way or another, he would have collided with the microphones that swarmed his face like bees.
Nadal pegged his chances of winning this tournament at “almost impossible” and “very difficult,” but the Rogers Cup will serve a greater purpose, allowing him to gauge his recovery — and his chances of winning the United States Open, which begins Aug. 31.
In Nadal’s absence, his chief rival, Roger Federer, reclaimed the No. 1 ranking and rewrote the record books. Both of those things seemed unlikely after the 2008 French Open, when Nadal dominated Federer in straight sets, even feeding him a 6-0 bagel in the third.
The Wimbledon victory returned Federer to No. 1 and gave him the most Grand Slam titles (15) in tennis betting history.
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