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Rafael Nadal will be back in action on the ATP tour, starting with Canada Masters in the first week of August
Rafael Nadal is set to be back on the ATP tour after recovering from the injury which forced him to withdraw from the Wimbledon semi-finals. With the twin ATP1000 Masters events in Montreal and Cincinnati and the US open up next on the 36-year-old’s schedule, his outfits for all three tournaments have been released.
For the Canada masters (August 7-14) and the Cincinnati Masters (August 14-21), World No. 3 will be pairing a gray T-shirt with purple shorts. The T-shirt will be sporting the same V-pattern all his outfits this season have featured, albeit in a gray shade that is not so different from the rest of the material.
For the trip to US Open (August 29-September 11) however, Nike has outfitted the former World No. 1 in all-red for the night session, a color that he very rarely wears on the ATP tour. This time around, the block pattern on the burgundy top is more visible, as the lower portion of the T-shirt is comparatively lighter than the shorts as well as the pattern above.
All four items of clothing prominently display the Nike logo and Nadal’s iconic “Raging Bull” logo — the former on the left and the latter on the right.
Rafael Nadal’s new kits have received mixed responses from fans on Twitter. Let us take a look at few of the most interesting reactions.
“This one is so nice, he should wear it for the USopen instead! Why he always chose the uglier outfit for slams?! Like the RG one”, wrote a fan, who really loved the outfit for Montreal and Cincinnati.
“Don’t like it. The only Grand Slam kit I liked this year has been Wimbledon, and it would have been very hard to get it wrong. AO, RG and this one are just ugly. Get someone else designing Rafa’s outfits!”, tweeted a fan about Nadal’s US Open outfit.
“I like it! This color will look amazing with his skin tone. And it will look elegant under the night lights! Do we know what the sneakers will look like”, tweeted another Nadal fan.
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