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Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will meet Tuesday for the 59th time, but the match will air only on the Tennis Channel.

Tennis Channel does offer a streaming service called TC Plus, but it costs $109 annually, is available only in year-long subscriptions and does not include the main Tennis Channel feed, which can be accessed online only with a cable or satellite subscription. American fans will have only one over-the-air option to watch: the Tennis Channel, a cable network that’s available in 61 million homes via cable and satellite providers. Tuesday’s match will not air on one of the networks owned by NBCUniversal, or Peacock, its streaming service.

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are extending their long rivalry with a quarterfinal match at Roland Garros. Follow updates here.

He refused to get vaccinated for Covid-19, which ultimately kept him from playing the Australian Open and two important tournaments in the United States at Indian Wells and Miami. Stephens, 29, is now based in the Boston area, but she was long based in South Florida, like Gauff and her family, and knew them well enough to attend Gauff’s 10th birthday party. A year ago, Gauff faced Barbora Krejcikova, a then-unseeded doubles specialist, in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros and lost, 7-6 (6), 6-3. Unlike some teen prodigies, Gauff did not soar to the top of women’s tennis in a hurry. Before that match, neither Nadal nor Djokovic had dropped a single set at Roland Garros this year. Zverev, despite his fine performance, is still a long way from winning his first Grand Slam singles title. “At the end of the day, I knew I had to play my absolutely best tennis today from the start, and I’m happy I did that,” Zverev said. Zverev missed a backhand of his own on his first match point, but he won the next two points to close out the match, finishing off the victory with a bold backhand return winner down the line that Alcaraz, one of the quickest men in tennis, could not come close to reaching. It did not help that before he entered their realm as one of the greatest players of all time, Djokovic began doing impressions of their on-court tics and style. Warmer temperatures increase the speed and kinetic energy of the molecules inside the ball. He has been virtually unbeatable in his night matches at the U.S. and Australian Opens. In their 59th match, Nadal and Djokovic have no real secrets at this stage.

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After Nadal hit a shot just outside to start, Djokovic sets him up with a hard serve and a powerful forehand after the return. Djokovic brings it back to deuce with a drop shot that Nadal returns to the net. Nadal then takes advantage after dropping a shot past Djokovic to his right. 3:53 p.m.: Djokovic and Nadal exchange points before Djokovic's shot goes out-of-bounds to give Nadal his first chance at a set point. 4:02 p.m.: Nadal can't capitalize on his advantage after Djokovic battles back to even the score at deuce again. Nadal can't get a clean shot on a ball near his baseline as Djokovic ties it up at 15 all. His next serve catches Nadal leaning and after an unbalanced return, Djokovic fires in the forehand winner to even the score. Nadal sends the next shot out of bounds, as the game surpasses the 10-minute mark. Nadal then rockets his first return with a powerful forehand down that right sideline to take the 30-15 lead. Djokovic ends the game with a forehand to take his first lead of the match at 4-3. 4:59 p.m.: Powerful serve by Djokovic keeps Nadal off balance, and Djokovic is able to take advantage. 30-40 now, with Djokovic looking to win the set on a break point.

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The second month of the baseball season comes to a close today, and this matchup pits the team with the best record in MLB with perhaps the sport’s biggest surprise of the young season. The two best teams in the WNBA to start the 2022 season face off in Las Vegas tonight. It’s a matchup we’ve had the privilege of watching 58 times, with Djokovic winning 30 and Nadal taking 28. The winner of today’s match will likely have the inside track to winning at Roland Garros, which would either bring Djokovic into a tie with Nadal for 21 major championships all-time or give Nadal some separation from both Djokovic and Roger Federer. It’s hard to imagine a more interesting quarterfinal than this one, a rivalry between two of the most storied players in the history of the sport. Rafael Nadal on clay at the French Open.

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What can happen down there (on the left foot) I don’t know.” Djokovic, for his part, respects him a lot: “It’s a big challenge, probably the biggest you can have here.” With nocturnality and treachery (because of the schedule), both will face each other for the 59th time. The paid audiovisual platform Amazon Prime Video, which has the rights to broadcast the night matches of the tournament, was very interested in the duel between Nadal and Djokovic being played in prime time, since it will be offered in France for free. Here, at Roland Garros, Rafa has a credit, he has won the tournament thirteen times and if he has a request they should listen to it.

Rafael Nadal makes a fast start to win a high-quality opening set against Novak Djokovic on Tuesday night in the 2022 Roland Garros quarter-finals.

Just as in the opening set, Nadal began set two with a crucial break of serve in a titanic opening game. He won his fifth break point of a seven-deuce game to draw level, then fought off a break point to hold for 4-3 across four deuces. Nadal and Djokovic both put on a show in the opening set of their Roland Garros quarter-final, but Nadal struck the first heavy blows to win it, 6-2.

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RAFAEL NADAL is looking for an unprecedented 14th French open title - butstanding in his way in tonight's quarter-final is his arch nemesis, Novak Djo.

Players can request the time of day they want to play. Rafa Nadal did NOT want to play in the evening and when the Order of Play was announced, his camp was furious. Had it of not been for the seeding system, many would have expected this Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic to be the final. Novak Djokovic 0-1 *Rafa Nadal Novak Djokovic 0-1 *Rafa Nadal Novak Djokovic 0-1 *Rafa Nadal A blistering first serve is unreturnable for Nadal and we head for the first changeover. The crowd favourite Nadal is in the lead. It is the start of the second set and the Serbian is first up. Nadal breaks the Djokovic serve in the opening game of the second set - just like he did in the first. Djokovic has dropped a set for the first time in this tournament and it breaks a 22-set winning streak going back to the Italian Open in Rome. This year, the pair meet in the quarter-final, due to Nadal dropping to fifth in the world rankings.

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He was downbeat after that defeat but did not rule out playing in the French Open and arrived in Paris with his longtime physician, Angel Ruiz-Cotorro. Djokovic did not get the chance to play that tournament in Australia. He was deported on the eve of the competition after a standoff with the Australian government over his unvaccinated status. Nadal took sole possession of the men’s record with 21 by winning the Australian Open in January, breaking his tie with his longtime rivals Djokovic and Roger Federer, who both have won 20.

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will face off on Tuesday in the quarterfinal of the 2022 French Open.

With the win, Nadal now has a semifinal against Alexander Zverev set for Friday, which also happens to be Nadal’s 36th birthday. Third-seeded Zverev knocked off Carlos Alcaraz 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7) in their quarterfinal match on Tuesday. Rafael Nadal took down Novak Djokovic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4) in their quarterfinal tilt at the 2022 French Open. The win moves Nadal one step closer to his 14th championship at Roland Garros.

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In a match that Rafael Nadal warned might be his last at the French Open, he dispatched longtime rival Novak Djokovic to reach the semifinals.

“He was a better player I think in important moments,” Djokovic said. “I’m not surprised at all,” Djokovic said of Nadal’s ability to bounce-back physically. If Nadal lifts another Coupe des Mousquetaires on Sunday, then the 35-year-old Djokovic, who after last year’s Wimbledon was tied with Nadal and Federer, cannot take the lead until 2023 at the earliest. “It’s to play at your best since the first point ’til the last, no? After Alcaraz was eliminated, it became clear that the Nadal-Djokovic winner would become the title favorite. “To win against Novak, there is only one way,” said Nadal, who lost to Djokovic in the 2021 French Open semifinals.

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Djokovic’s 3-0 lead in the fourth did him no good, even though he served for it at 5-3, even standing one point from forcing a fifth twice. “Tonight has been one of those magic nights for me.” Nary a game, a point, a stroke or, indeed, a step came with a hint of insouciance. “See you, by the way, in two days,” Nadal said. The bracket said this was a quarterfinal, yes, but it felt like a final, from the quality of play to the quality of effort, from the anticipation that preceded it to the atmosphere that enveloped it. “To win against Novak, there is only one way — to play at your best from the first point to the last,” Nadal said.

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The metro had long closed, but no one dared move until Nadal took four steps into the middle of the court and raised his arms to the sky, before falling to clasp his knees. But the louder the boos, the harder the Djokovic forehand, the more precise the serve. They waited for a spark or for Djokovic's expressionless mask to slip -- and it did in the second game of the fourth, when he clubbed the net in frustration after he was unable to tame a Nadal forehand. "So yeah, between Novak, Roger [Federer], myself, we have an amazing story together facing each other in the most important matches for such a long time. The crowd responded by booing Djokovic to the skies. But the night drew in, and the starless sky blanketed the stadium just as Djokovic started winning, finding his rhythm to take the second set 6-4. "I know I could have played better," Djokovic said. "The crowd is something difficult to describe; I can't thank everyone enough here in Paris. It was an unforgettable night." And from the moment the two walked out, it had that big-event feel. Nadal's walk on to the court was cheered to the rafters, while Djokovic entered to a mixture of boos and cheers -- and looking to gate-crash the party on Nadal's clay. The two grizzled heavyweights of the sport have traded blows since they first met on this patch of clay back in 2006. As sporting rivalries go, add this up there with the best of them; they are one of the very few surefire things in tennis.

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"I'm proud of fighting and staying till the last shot. After the match, Djokovic congratulated Nadal saying he "showed why he's a great champion. On Sunday, following his five-set win against Felix Auger-Aliassime in the round of 16, Nadal said, "Two and a half weeks ago, even if I had (positive hopes) after Rome, I didn't even know if I would be able to be here. "I don't know what can happen. And being honest, every match that I play here, I don't know if it is going to be my last match in Roland Garros in my tennis career." I think probably they know that I'm not going to be here (many) more times."

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And if the crowd was even a little split today, I think it will be entirely on Nadal’s side in the next round. And it was a weird match and it didn’t have a lot of rhythm ... I think Nadal’s masterful at sort of creating these narratives in his head: He told this to me the other day: this could be my last match. Zverev is obviously a very nice player and he can move and he can play on clay. I don’t think Nadal doesn’t get tight, you know, it took him multiple match points and he had a 3–0 lead in the second set that he let slip away. And here he had enough margin that … five match points is a lot of time to compose yourself. It probably isn’t, but I think that’s one way he sort of outwitted himself and put him in the headspace where he thinks: The pressure’s on the other guy. I think that’s big advantage Nadal in the semis. And nobody will be surprised that Rafael Nadal wins a match at the French Open, but I think in a weird way, this was a little bit of an upset. CA: Certainly. When anybody asked me who I thought was going to win this tournament, I said … it was Djokovic. Right? He was in great form coming in and he was healthy. Given that everything was breaking Djokovic’s way [heading into the match]—Nadal had a long fourth-round match, and is a year older, and was playing in Djokovic’s favored conditions, and Djokovic got him the last time they played here—I was surprised that he didn’t have a bit more energy and a few more answers. And some of this is a testament to their rivalry. He didn’t have the foot injuries, he was rounding into form, he got a night match.

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On the day teenager Carlos Alcaraz, who has been widely tipped as his successor, was knocked out, Nadal threw the punches and had defending champion Djokovic on the ropes in a high octane start under the spotlights. Having already survived a five-set thriller against Felix Auger Aliassime in the previous round, the Spaniard, who has only lost three times at the French Open since his first campaign in 2005, knows every inch of the immense court Philippe Chatrier and Djokovic paid for the reminder. PARIS (Reuters) -Talks of an end to Rafael Nadal’s reign proved premature once again as the claycourt king stayed on course for a record-extending men’s 22nd Grand Slam title by beating arch rival Novak Djokovic 6-2 4-6 6-2 7-6(4) in a vintage French Open quarter-final clash on Tuesday.

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In the early going, and down the stretch, it was Nadal getting the better of the baseline back-and-forths, pushing and pulling Djokovic this way or that, up and back, until an opening for a clean winner presented itself. Nadal is now 110-3 for his career at the place. But Djokovic's 3-0 lead in the fourth did him no good, even though he served for it at 5-3, even standing one point from forcing a fifth twice. Nadal heard far more support in the form of yells of "Ra-fa!'' or "Vamos!'' or "Te quiero!'' Only once Djokovic began to assert himself in the second set was his nickname "No-le!'' heard with any frequency. Nary a game, a point, a stroke or, indeed, a step came with a hint of insouciance. This time, Nadal made sure Djokovic remains behind him in the Slam count with 20.

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It was the first time during the match in which Nadal didn’t break Djokovic on his first serving game of the set. Nadal went on to win the next three games of the set, before Djokovic followed by winning four games in a row. Nadal did close it out from there, emerging with a 7–4 tiebreak win to close another epic chapter in this historic rivalry. At one point, the Spaniard led 6–1 points in the tiebreak, but then lost three match points in a row. The first set lasted 49 minutes. Additionally, the three of them have held the World No. 1 ranking for 891 weeks out of the last 940.

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Nadal wrapped up the crucial first set in style, but the battle was just getting started. By the second point of the match, the pair had set the tone with a lengthy rally, before Nadal broke Djokovic off a missed netcord to take the early lead. He needed a tiebreak to close out his 6-2, 6-3, 7-6(4) victory over Molcan in the second round.

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It’s the most important court of my tennis career, the most special one,” the Spaniard said. “That’s the only thing that I can say. The 20-time Grand Slam champion earned two set points in that game, but Nadal rode the energy of the crowd to yet another break of serve and then evened the score at 5-5 with a comfortable service hold. But as often happens in clay-court battles between these two all-time greats, the momentum shifted once again at the start of the fourth set as Djokovic broke serve in the second game and kept that one-break lead until he stepped up to serve for the set at 5-3. Although Nadal managed to hold serve to even the second set at 4-4, Djokovic clearly had the momentum and won another long game on the Spaniard’s serve to even the match at a set apiece. After getting out of that jam, the holder of a record 21 Grand Slam men’s singles titles stretched his lead to 4-1 by breaking Djokovic’s serve for the sixth time in the contest and then wrapped up the set with two more service holds.

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He met Djokovic at the net and then raised his hands in celebration to the roaring crowd. Between Novak, Roger [Federer], myself — we have an amazing story together facing each other in the most important matches for such a long time. “Of course we have a lot of history together," Nadal said. "A lot of important moments playing against each other. Djokovic showed signs of frustration during the match. The Spaniard capitalized on a slew of break points (7-for-17). “If Nadal somehow wins and goes on to win 22 and Djokovic never gets there, that could be the decider. "He showed why he's a great champion," Djokovic said. Djokovic, the defending champion in Paris, had not lost a set entering the quarterfinal. The 59th encounter between the two legends was full of history. "But it's just a quarterfinal match, no? "It has been a very emotional night for me.

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But still a super classic match and in a big scenario." The main goal is be focused on [keeping] the level that I have been playing today." "If I am not playing good or if I am losing in that semi-finals match, [it is] not going to be because I'm not going to be focussed... "Tonight has been just a quarter-final match, not the final. "In the end, it has been a very emotional night for me," he said. It's not much difference, so [it] doesn't matter." "I became emotional because, of course, the last three months and a half for me, the only thing that I can say is it hasn't been easy," Nadal explained in his post-match press conference. "So from my perspective... But tomorrow [I'm] going to start thinking about things that I need to do to be ready for that semi-finals. "We played... "I know how the things works, no? Nadal did not want to focus on his difficult buildup to Roland Garros, which included a six-week recovery from a rib fracture and continued issues with his chronic foot injury.

Rafael Nadal was victorious in a quarterfinal showdown against Novak Djokovic. There's been an ongoing rivalry between the two tennis greats.