Barcelona tournament: Nadal faces de Minaur, Arthur Fils' debut, live scores and results

Rafael Nadal will play a second match in two days against an opponent of a completely different caliber.

Winning return for Rafael Nadal! Tuesday April 16, the Spaniard finally returned to the tennis courts and clay courts. Facing the Italian Flavio Cobolli, the Mallorcan delivered a fairly decent performance for his comeback by winning in two sets, 6-2 6-3 in a little less than 1h30 of play. more been a great surprise The last four days I felt more or less good, I played against top players and, even though it was only training, I didn't feel very good. It's important to have won in two sets today. I played the game I had to play, I controlled what I could control. My level didn't surprise me. -he explained at a press conference. This Wednesday, the task promises to be much more difficult since the Spaniard will face the Australian Alex de Minaur in the third rotation around 4 p.m./4:30 p.m.

In the rest of the program, we will also follow the debut of Arthur Fils against Daniel Altmaier or that of Ugo Humbert against the Serbian Lajovic. Van Assche is opposed to the Hungarian Marozsan.

The first results of the day saw the victories of two Spaniards: Roberto Bautista Agut and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. If Davidovich Fokina took advantage of Tomas Machac's package, Bautista Agut had to work to eliminate Andrea Vavassori in three sets. The number nine seed Nicolas Jarry is out, eliminated in two sets by Marco Trungelliti. Finally, the step was too high for Alexandre Muller, eliminated in two sets by the recent finalist from Monte-Carlo Casper Ruud.