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Michael Stich and the unreal hope to have Rafael Nadal in Hamburg again
- Updated: June 4, 2016
ATP Hamburg seems nothing but a “500” seeing the field both of 2015 (Nadal, who won the title was the only top 20 player to play the tournament), both this year (Thiem and Anderson are the only top 20 players who will play there).
The hope of the tournament director Michael Stich is to have at least one top player. However, interviewed by Tennis.net the German said: ‘It depends on the early results in Wimbledon. Could Nadal play? It depends on how the injury evolves. Our goal is and will be the one of having at least every two years one top player in Hamburg.’ There are many important but at the same time unreal goals in Stich’s mind: not only Nadal could not be able to compete within the start of the tournament (July 11), …
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