Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will meet for the final time at the Six Kings Slam, a new exhibition event in Saudi Arabia. Nadal, who won 22 grand slams, will be retiring after the Davis Cup next month but he will play his great rival Djokovic, the winner of 24 grand slam, in the third-place match in Riyadh.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, who own 46 Grand Slam singles titles between them, will be among the tennis stars competing for the largest purse in tennis history.

Tennis wonderkid Justin Engel has pleaded with Novak Djokovic to avoid retirement for the time being. The German recently followed in the footsteps of Carlos Alcaraz by becoming an extremely young winner on the ATP Tour and he wants to face idol Djokovic before the tennis icon bows out of the sport.

Rafael Nadal will have one last chance to face old rival Novak Djokovic before the Spaniard calls time on his illustrious career with the pair set to meet at the Six Kings Slam exhibition event in Saudi Arabia.

Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal at the Olympics in July (Picture: Getty) Rafael Nadal says tennis fans must ‘wait’ until Novak Djokovic retires before comparing Carlos Al

Rafael Nadal has revealed his relationships outside of tennis with fellow greats Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

Speaking at the Festival dello Sport, Ljubicic suggested Nadal has been forced to retire by his body in a similar way to that which he witnessed as Federer’s coach. “I’m sur