Rafael Nadal signalled his determination to turn around his miserable summer when he decided to play at Queen’s for the first time in four years, even though he will expose himself to an unspecified tax liability this week.
The Spaniard is gambling on (or investing in) the fact that a second consecutive week on the surface he has struggled to tame in recent years might make him dangerous at Wimbledon again, where he was champion most recently in 2010.
On Monday Nadal described the taxation of overseas athletes performing in the UK as “still not the ideal situation for us – but [it] is better than a few years ago.