During a break after the seventh game of the first set, Nadal returned to his players bench to discover the next racquet in his playing sequence had disappeared from its spot. 9News
Rafael Nadal was left frustrated after a ballboy accidentally took one of his racquets too early.
After rummaging around his things, Nadal reported the missing racquet to the chair umpire - claiming it had mistakenly been taken by a ballboy to be re-stringed.Watch the Australian Open live and free on the Nine Network: Channel 9, 9Gem and"They've taken his racquet that he's using at the moment, [the one] that he wants," Mark Petchey explained in commentary for Nine.
"There will be the reality that his tennis isn't where it needs to be just yet," Petchey said on commentary. "If we put in perspective all the situations I've been through in the last six months, it's been a very positive start."
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