However, he was due to train at the Stade de Luxembourg on Saturday evening. Nadal will be bidding for a men's record 21st major title at the Australian Open, which is scheduled to start on January 17. Cross was solid if unspectacular en route to European Championship glory - he was rarely troubled by the quartet of Keane Barry, Brendan Dolan, Jose De Sousa and Joe Cullen in reaching the final, despite failing to average above 98 throughout the tournament. Simmonds, who was selected as one of Great Britain's opening ceremony flagbearers in Japan, planned to return home and evaluate her career and has now decided "it's time to hang up the goggles".