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A page and forum to discuss all things Rafael Nadal.
Current ranking: 14
Last result: Australian Open second round (lost to Mackenzie McDonald)
Next tournament: Roland Garros
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REAL means vamos means NOTHING means confusion means coaching means chapeau means oeuf
Let’s just all bow down to the truth: the only REAL rafans among those who post here regularly are only three in number: augusta, nadline and mary.
How do we know? Augusta (and nadline) told us. And gave us innumerable, undeniable arguments.
The rest of us simply fool ourselves in being pro-rafa. We are in fact not. We just don’t know it yet. Eventually the truth that Augusta keeps humbly presenting to us will sink in and we will repent. We will then admit we were never REAL rafans all along. And we will probably realise we don’t even have what it takes to become REAL rafans,
The TRUTH is sweet,
😉
OK, Clearly 🙂
was in response to 6:08pm (not the later post of yours, augusta)
As to posting the same, yes, that was the idea, no need to write it differently: you have been engaging in the behaviour I descrobe at 1:47pm for one year, two? or is it longer?
Rafa was watching Jaume Munar (who won the second set against Simone Bolelli):
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLLkUdyUwAAlwi0.jpg
A real rafan (as opposed to a so-called REAL Rafan)…
http://twitter.com/cbfowler/status/626790267996258304
That was a credible performance from Rafa’s young protegee ?
After his Hamburg win, Rafa joins Connors, Lendl and Fed as the only players to win at least 3 titles 11 years in a row.
https://twitter.com/MarcaTMF/status/627940530513686528
http://www.marca.com/en/2015/08/03/en/more_sports/1438614096.html
“Let’s forget the best Nadal”
Rafa Nadal is being rational regarding the hard times that he is currently going through in the world of tennis: “Let’s forget the best Nadal. I’m the player you see before you today and want to enjoy my day-to-day life. The best Nadal may return, or he may not.”
Regarding the last Grand Slam of the season, the Spaniard, while speaking on Cadena COPE Radio, said, “I’m a candidate to win the US Open, but not the favourite”.
Copa Davis: “We are in the situation that we deserve for various reasons: some of them are down to us, others due to the lack of professionalism of those in charge. For one thing or another, we haven’t given it our all.”
Nadal’s past performances: “Let’s forget the best Nadal. I’m the player you see before you today and want to enjoy my day-to-day life. The best Nadal may return, or he may not. Now, I am who I am.”
The worst defeat of the season: “There have been several; it has been a complicated year. The one at Wimbledon was particularly tough to accept as I had prepared well for it. I have lost games that, if I had lost just half of them, it would all have been very different. It has been one blow after another.”
Read more: Rafa Nadal: “Let’s forget the best Nadal” – MARCA.com (English version)
Sigh… When you want a job done right you’ve got to do it yourself.
http://twitter.com/jon_wertheim/status/628609796703322112
#RealFan
#Real
or
#REAL
DoYou?
For the only REAL rafan (and filter)…
http://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/628645966422364160
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLGfy-yUsAAtyCk.png
For the only REAL Rafan here (and filter too while I’m at it)…
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/628645966422364160
Francisco Roig on Rafa:
“It is always good to win, especially before the start of an important part of the season such as the North American hard court swing. There is a change in surface and thus a need to adapt to the new conditions. It is a success that helps in the right motivation and approach to the practice sessions. It was fundamental to leave Hamburg as the winners. If that wasn’t the case, the approach to the North American season would have been different”
“The lack of consistency is a symptom of a lack of confidence. Some tournaments went bad, he didn’t play how he wanted. When it was time to compete, Rafael didn’t do as he had done in the past 10 years. I think it is normal for that to happen considering how long Rafael has been on the top of his game. Despite all that happened this year, Rafael is No 6 in the race after Hamburg. The goal is to finish in the top 5 and conclude the season in the best possible way to do well at the US Open and start well the 2016 season”
“Thinking of points yes, we can say that Murray, Federer and Djokovic are not reachable at the moment. Focusing on the level, Novak Djokovic is a spot above everyone else, but I don’t think he is better than the other years. Maybe it was Nadal who was being a shade on him in the last part of the season. On a single match Rafael can beat anyone: Federer, Murray, Wawrinka…are all players he can create difficulties to. Let’s not forget that in the past years Nadal and Djokovic made the difference in the last part of the season in terms of points. The rankings speak and they tell that Djokovic is on top, with a strong lead over the rest. I can say that in the United States this year Rafael will be able to compete against anyone, but Novak Djokovic”
*Roig thinks rafa is ready to compete with all players except Novak Djokovic.
@ 8th August 3.29pm
NNY: There is a contradiction in your argument.
In your first para you say they can hardly come right out and say Rafa is washed up.
Then in the second para you say if you read between the lines they are saying they don’t expect him to get back to where he was.
We both have watched this sport long enough to know it’s foolish to write off a great champion before he has hung up his racquet.
Personally I think the confidence crisis possibly has more to do with Rafa’s concerns about his health than his ability to win matches. e.g. the way he suddenly called for an MTO mid-set in Hamburg and needed a medication his team carries which indicates an on-going problem he is dealing with. We know, too, he is having trouble with the shoulder.
So Rafa will never get to the top 4 again! I seem to remember Murray struggling to qualify for the WTF this time last year.
ed,
Your reply to me came up way up thread. So it’s hard to answer when your comment isn’t in the right place. You said there was a contradiction in what I said. The truth is that there is more than one way to read what was said in Roig’s comments. They do seem to saying one thing and then another.
I think the bottom line is that they don’t want to be too committed to stating anything definitive, because they don’t know what’s going to happen with Rafa.
These new injuries are creeping in now. In 2014 it was the back in the AO final. Then last year it was the wrist. Then the appendicitis. It’s ironic that the knees seem to be fine. But these new injuries are a sign that Rafa’s body is getting older and the wear and tear of all the years is catching up to him.
Except it should have appeared as a reply under NNY’s comment: not as a new subject under Gussie’s photo at 7.41pm.
Give me strength. This is like playing Ring-a-ring=the roses.
Unfortunately, comments are showing up all over the place. That makes it hard to keep the continuity of any discussion.
Gussie are you still out there?
Be a love, make yourself useful and explain (preferably in baby language) why this thread work like all the others!
DOESN’T work like all the others.
ed251137 (on August 8, 2015 at 9:09 pm),
I don’t know. I think, the owner of The Grandstand should ask for WordPress support. 🙂
yes, he definitely should!
ed,
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe this thread is just too bogged down with pages and pages of posts. It might not be a bad idea to start a whole new thread and see if that solves the problem. Good idea to contact Ricky about it.
-This Year his right seemed to do as much damage as before.
-The Right hurts when you loose confidence and good hand; if less loose, unless you hurry the coup and do less damage. Right in Montecarlo against David [Ferrer] hurt and in Madrid against Berdych, but not against Murray. The main problem has been the inconsistency. Who is right? Surely all.
-The Felt celebration of Hamburg reveals how bad it happened.
It was important to win because if you’re not used to losing, there are moments of tension, and celebrate each victory. And it is normal, defeated an opponent who had won the last times. Another joy was that Rafael recovered the fighting, was more fighter when things were not well fought.
He speaks of militancy, but gives Nadal always made.
When you have problems, you lose consistency, it is normal. It happens to everyone: Tiger Woods, last year Messi, Cristiano also had a drop … It is very difficult to keep all the time. A Rafael things have gone very well since 2005, when I was world number two, and despite the injury remained always on top.
-Consistency. And the head?
His head is consistency and works like any body part.
What would have to happen for the 2015 is a good year?
-Win a title in the eight tournaments he has and play well, with positive feelings. Qualify for the Masters and finish as high as possible. If Rafael wins the US Open, 2015 and will be a great year; and, if not, at least try to get back in shape.
Rafael said he might not return the best Nadal. ¿Exaggerates?
He is wise. One thing is what you think and what you say to other reporters. Boast not mention it! What are you going to say?
Before 1000 has two Masters, but how well will the US Open?
– I do not like talking about the future. His game is not far from a high level. In Hamburg semis he was at a very good level. Regularly you need to make 20 straight games.
Four years ago he told me it would not be unreasonable to think of a career of 16 to 27 years. Rafael now has 29.
I always say a ten year career can go 22-32 or 18-28, which is not short. Just because one has worn the physical or the mentality is not the same. If you start earlier, it could happen before.
But we are not in that trance …
-I think no. It does not mention that I thought Rafael is finished! Is the 6 Race [the ranking of 2015]. I value it because I think there are a lot of very good people. I finish? Not at all.
With poor performance analyzes emerge. John McEnroe said he could use a change of coach.
-I do not care. (Calla few seconds). How do you want me to feel? I do not pay attention to what people say. And that has some logic. Sometimes a player needs to be told new things, or they say them differently. I get it. If it says McEnroe, who is an expert, maybe you’re right
A lot is lost in the Google translation so hard to fathom out exactly what he is or isn’t saying.
@vamosrafa 5.55 am
Toni doesn’t sound like he is expressing damage limitation at all. If Rafa and his team think he is finished, he will retire seeing that he doesn’t need the fame nor the money.