Nadal call set to top off Coleman Wong's big day
Coleman Wong will be eagerly checking his phone for a message from tennis great Rafael Nadal after the Hong Kong, China player won gold at the Asian Games on Saturday and, with it, a place at the Olympics. Wong, in beating Wu Yibing 6-2, 6-4, joins national player Wang Xiyu, who won the women's final, as singles champions in Nagoya. He is the first Hong Kong male to reach the third round of a Grand Slam, doing so at the 2025 US Open. At 17, he decided to move to Spain to train at the Rafa Nadal Academy, and the Spanish great keeps abreast of how Wong is progressing. Asked whether he had heard from Nadal following his gold-medal triumph, Wong said: "I haven't checked my messages. I don't know. Let's see. "He always talks to my coaches to see how I'm doing, how the team atmosphere is like. "Sometimes we have a meeting with him and uncle Toni [Nadal's uncle] to see what's going on, the situation. "He knows what's going on, the planning and everything. We always ask him what do we do at this moment, should we go here or what's the plan." Wong can now start planning for Los Angeles 2028, which will be...
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