Madrid – Rafael Nadal celebrates the return to world No. 1 spot on Tuesday with a recollection of Germany against the Davis Cup team against Spain in the quarterfinals.

Nadal, who will be on the top of the world rankings on Monday, announced that Bruguera, the team captain, who had been in the 6-8 draw for the first time since 2016,

The 16-time Grand Slam winner took over from Roger Federer, who was the first to win the second leg of the Miami Masters on Saturday after the shocking defeat of the Swiss.

Bruguera said that the 31-year-old man had survived the right-wing injury that had suppressed him since he was removed from the Australian Open in January.

In February he left Mexico Open for many hours before his opening.

“I got in touch with him and he started to get stronger, and after healing he feels good and gets more training,” Bruguera said.

Nadal last appeared in Davis Cup in September 2016 for Spain.

Pablo Carreno, Roberto Bautista, David Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez entered the row with Nadal for a necktie made in Valencia, east of Spain.

The tie will meet with France or Italy in the semifinal. In the other two quarters, Croatia, Kazakhstan and the United States are playing Belgium.

Nadal, 32, who died in June, ended the world’s oldest year of 2017 in 45 years of ATP sequences. In February he lost the top rank to Federer.