Tournament director Amélie Mauresmo said that Nadal told officials he didn't want to close the door and they are not going to push him to do anything.
Tournament director Amélie Mauresmo said that Nadal told officials he didn't want to close the door and they are not going to push him to do anything.Despite having such a dominant record at the French Open, Nadal was not seeded and so could have been placed anywhere in the bracket / Photo: Reuters
“As you can imagine, we had something planned for him. But because he doesn’t know if it's going to be his last Roland Garros or not, he wants to leave the door open maybe to come back next year as a player. So we are not going to push him to do anything,” Mauresmo said. Nadal, who turns 38 on June 3 and has said previously he expects this to be his last season, will face No. 4 seed Alexander Zverev in the first round on Monday. The match is scheduled to be third in the main stadium, Court Philippe Chatrier.
In theory, Mauresmo could have opted to circumvent the rules and go ahead and award a seeding to Nadal based on his past performances in Paris. But that was never really considered, she said, in part because “giving protection to some players” would result in “a lot of other issues and problems,” and because “it also has to be OK with other Grand Slams and everything".
“The way that the seedings work, I think it’s appropriate. In this case, it’s unfortunate how that happened, but I don’t know how you gauge where someone should and shouldn’t be seeded based on past or previous success,” said three-time major champion Andy Murray. “It’d be quite hard to do that".
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