{"id":15298,"date":"2010-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2010\/08\/09\/air-nadal-lands-at-york-for-rogers-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:06:26","slug":"air-nadal-lands-at-york-for-rogers-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2010\/08\/09\/air-nadal-lands-at-york-for-rogers-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Nadal lands at York for Rogers Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&rsquo;s No.1-ranked tennis player &ndash; Rafael Nadal &ndash; arrived in style at York University Friday in preparation for this year&rsquo;s Roger&rsquo;s Cup.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The gregarious Spaniard,&nbsp;known as&nbsp;Rafa,&nbsp;took an express route to the Keele campus <a target=\"_blank\" name=\"Nadal @ York\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yorkmediarelations\/4867379338\/in\/set-72157624668669308\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#cc0000\">via helicopter<\/font><\/a>, landing in the grassy southwestern corner immediately after appearing at the CN Tower in downtown Toronto for the official draw for the event.&nbsp;The tournament&nbsp;started Saturday&nbsp;at the Rexall Centre and runs to Aug.&nbsp;15.&nbsp;To see a photo gallery of Nadal's arrival for&nbsp;a practice session, click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yorkmediarelations\/sets\/72157624668669308\/\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The $3 million championship, presented by National Bank, has the tennis world buzzing about a possible showdown between Nadal and arch rival and former World No.1 &nbsp;Roger Federer of Switzerland.&nbsp;Current ATP Tour No. 2 Novak Djokovic of Serbia is also a part of the mix along with virtually every other top-ranked player in the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>YFile<\/em> readers are invited to join the action with savings of 25 per cent off all Level 100 seats (platinum, gold, silver and bronze) and 50 per cent off all Level 300 seats. Friends and family of <em><span>YFile<\/span><\/em> readers are also eligible for the discount. This offer is only available through phone orders, not through online orders.<\/p>\n<p>To order, call Tennis Canada at 1-877-283-6647 ext. 4306 and use your group access code (1078-11984166). For more information, click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/special\/tennis_canada_group_sales.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#cc0000\">here<\/font><\/a> or visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tickets.rexallcentre.com\/English\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#cc0000\">Rogers Cup<\/font><\/a> Web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smiling Spaniard, the world's No. 1 men's tennis player, arrived by helicopter at the Keele campus for a practice session Friday...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-15298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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