By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday April 17, 2025
Mark your calendars. Roland-Garros will honor the legacy of its biggest champion on Sunday Could twenty fifth, because the event will host a ceremony to honor Rafael Nadal on Court docket Philippe Chatrier.
And the King of Clay – he of the 112-4 lifetime document and 14 titles on the Parisian clay – is absolutely on board.
That wasn’t the case final 12 months, when Nadal misplaced to Alexander Zverev within the opening spherical and nonetheless wasn’t positive how lengthy he would delay his profession.
“Right now shouldn’t be a second to research all these form of issues. It is a second simply to maintain going,” Nadal stated on the time.
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To mark Rafa’s first season post-retirement, a ceremony will happen following the conclusion of the day session on Day 1 of the event. Moreover, an immersive exhibit devoted to Nadal may even run throughout the event on the Roland-Garros Tenniseum.
“We wished to do the tribute final 12 months, to be clear, however he refused on the time,” Mauresmo stated. “He wasn’t positive that it was his final Roland Garros. Now that he’s retired, he’s joyful to obtain it.”
The event may even honor Mary Pierce on the twenty fifth anniversary of her triumph in singles and doubles.
The ceremony will happen on June 5, between ladies’s semi-finals, and can function the presentation of the ring signifying Pierce’s acceptance into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame.
