- Second seed beats Argentinian 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Nadal playing Wimbledon for first time since 2019
Two lines on a Covid test proved devastating for Matteo Berrettini on Tuesday morning, but for at least half a dozen players in the bottom half of the men’s singles draw, including former champion Rafael Nadal, the chance of a run all the way to next week’s final improved significantly with the bookies’ second-favourite removed from the reckoning.
Nadal, the winner in 2008 and 2010, has not reached the final since 2011, and there were moments in his four-set defeat of Francisco Cerundolo on Centre Court on Tuesday when a first-round exit, for only the second time in of his Wimbledon career, felt a good deal more plausible than a run into the second week.