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7.09pm GMT

Andrey Rublev is a Rafael Nadal fanboy. Here are his comments last month shortly after Nadal’s Roland Garros triumph:

“Even if you take other sportsmen or athletes, they can have bad days. But because maybe the team is good, they are still winning. In tennis, if you are having a really bad it is really tough to find a way [to win] and compete like nothing happened.

[Rafa] has done this during all his career. For me he is the best athlete, not even in tennis, the best athlete in history.

7.07pm GMT

Rafael Nadal and Andrey Rublev have only faced each other once, with Nadal brutally ending the Russian’s first ever big run with a 6-1 6-2 6-2 demolition in the 2017 US Open quarter-final.

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source: theguardian.com