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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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Wow! Rafa posted flowers! 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/Nadal/photos/a.456161351025.251362.64822581025/10153110862496026/?type=1&theater
Wow! Flowers!!!
Yippee! 🙂
As I said, Moya quit because he could not get top players in Spain to commit to DC. Even Mary could get the same level of commitment from top Spain players as Moya. Results would be the same, for sure, no?
Read below for more…
“Moya has told El Pais that he had already decided at the US Open that he will not remain the captain after the Brazil tie. Because he especially went to New York and he had to ask a lot of players, but they said no, because of injury, commitments and lack of motivation.
He said that understands because he has been player himself and it is difficult to take time out for Davis Cup, but when so many players are unavailable, there is something wrong about the system.”
http://www.tennisworldusa.org/Carlos-Moya-says-defeat-against-Brazil-was-not-the-only-reason-why-he-quit-as-captain-articolo20336.html
“……….but when so many players are unavailable, there is something wrong about the system.”
Exactly! A system which appoints narcissistic, delusional “I am an icon in many countries” Gala Leon.
Those who were quick to pillory Rafa and Uncle Toni as chauvinistic pigs for their objection to Gala Leon’s appointment please note: the woman’s a loony, appointed by a loony system.
Gala Leon would have been better served doubling down to craft a strategy to win back DC for Spain, instead, she clearly spent her time trawling the Twitterverse, basking in the ill-informed, Fedbot inspired comments labeling her a victim of the Nadals’ hatred for women. What a loser.
^^^^@ ritb
What I find impossible to fathom is how and why this dodgy character gave the DC job to her in the first place. Then when it went pear-shaped stood his ground.
I can think of one or two scenarios but it would be imprudent to voice them 🙂
hawkeye, let’s see your stats on ROS.
“Only facts matter, the rest is just whistling in the wind.”- Nadline10 June 24, 2015 at 5:22 pm
Nadline has implied that Federer, with 18 slams and 302 weeks at no.1 to his name (two ‘facts’) is the undisputed GOAT!! because only facts matter and the rest is just whistling in the wind . Hear people hear, this was what nadline wants everyone to believe! :O
LOL
Right on! Let’s go for some more stats like that! There was someone on tennis-x who used to cherry pick stats that would show Fed’s superiority over Rafa. I called him out for it when I used to post there. You can selectively pick only the stats that you wish and ignore other relevant stats.
Yes, nadline has now proven that Fed is indeed the GOAT! Well done! 🙂
Oh, vamosrafa (or NNY?) has established criteria for determining the GOAT!
augusta, some people are just too gullible, swallowing everything the likes of vr comes up with, cheering from the sidelines without thinking for themselves.
#sheep
@augusta, Come onnnn! you have clearly not been paying attention to what nadline10 has been saying! Let me re-post:
“Only facts matter, the rest is just whistling in the wind.”- Nadline10 June 24, 2015 at 5:22 pm
^^ THIS is the standard set by NADLINE10. It took us a long time why she kept saying this time and time again but now we know, she was insinuating that fed is the GOAT because as per HER criteria, only facts matter and the rest is just whistling in the wind !
I hope you understand now 🙂
All hail nadline !!
@nadline, you continue to chicken away whenever you don’t have answers. Well, you never have answers!
It is not only ‘VR’ who says nole has the best ROS! VR is glad that a survey conducted by NY times, comprising 24 top coaches, players and analysts – which you ignored as expected, rated Djokovic’s ROS at no.1 ! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/sports/tennis/us-open-2014-novak-djokovic-roger-federer-and-john-isner-among-best-tennis-strokes.html?_r=0
Determining the best players in tennis seems a straightforward matter of consulting the rankings and the tournament results. Determining the best strokes in tennis remains a more subjective affair even with the recent growth in statistics and analytics. More than two dozen leading coaches, players and analysts were asked to list at least three top men and women in each category. Extra weight was given to those with firsthand experience. For example, Ivo Karlovic, one of the world’s best servers, seems particularly well qualified to determine top returners.
BEST RETURN
1. Novak Djokovic
2. Andy Murray
3. David Ferrer
4. Tomas Berdych
5. Rafael Nadal
Plus, rafa HIMSELF called novak having the best ROS !!
IN MY OPINION, Novak has the best ROS but it is extremely close between him, Murray and Ferrer and arguments can be made for all three. Ferrer lacks in power and that is his only drawback.
A TONNE of other players and legends talk about Novak’s and Murray’s ROS!
John Mcenroe is one of the many examples!
And look at the survey results for other categories where rafa is leading:
BEST ENDURANCE
1. Rafael Nadal
2. Novak Djokovic
3. David Ferrer
4. Roger Federer
5. Andy Murray
BEST MENTAL GAME
1. Rafael Nadal
2. Novak Djokovic
3. Roger Federer
4. David Ferrer
5. Lleyton Hewitt
BEST PASSING SHOT
1. Rafael Nadal
2. Novak Djokovic
3. Andy Murray
4. Richard Gasquet
5. Lleyton Hewitt
BEST FOREHAND
1. Rafael Nadal
2. Roger Federer
3. Juan Martín del Potro
4. Novak Djokovic
5. David Ferrer
Everything in order 😀
I WISH rafa had the best ROS, but it is a relative weakness for him. His return game however, makes up for that weakness and that is what has made him the giant he is !
Always thought that she was a closet fedfan.
For @nadline10…
http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/federer-shirtless/roger-federer-shirtless-01.jpg
nadline,
You shouldn’t talk about yourself that way!
#sheep
augusta,
Just using stats and facts! 🙂
NNY (at 3:53 pm),
For what purpose? 🙂
vamosrafa,
I appreciate you backing up your arguments by once again posting the above. But the tag team of augusta and nadline will only ignore anything that they do not wish to see.They have extracted one statistic from a website and will continue to regurgitate it without thinking or putting it in context.
Yet nadline posted a not very subtle dig at me to the effect that I am blindly following you like sheep! Yet she and augusta are the ones who persist in ignoring the facts that you have posted and keep repeating their same refrain.
They cannot answer what you have posted because they can make no argument in response. 🙂
@augusta, you shoud question nadline! lol…. SHE is the one saying nothing gets in the way of facts! she is implying federer is the GOAT! Many posters and I myself have made countless arguments in the past to make up for the slams and weeks at no.1 deficit rafa has BUT, nadline has established it now! it’s all over because remember, all else is ust whistling in the winds !! 😀
nativenewyorker7 says:
June 25, 2015 at 4:32 pm
—augusta ….They have extracted one statistic from a website and will continue to regurgitate it without thinking or putting it in context.—
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I am curious to know why you are lying. I am wondering whether there is something wrong with your memory or you are lying intentionally.
vamosrafa says:
June 25, 2015 at 4:44 pm,
–she was insinuating that fed is the GOAT because as per HER criteria, only facts matter—
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Internet: ¤¤ A criterion is a standard by which you judge or evaluate something.¤¤
My question: WHO established standard/criteria by which YOU evaluate facts?
Rafa & Andy Murray are practicing right now:
https://instagram.com/p/4WbcJijq_z/
The text below was translated via Google, but I don’t know if it’s an accurate translation (the psychologist has worked with Rafa ?):
EFE, June 25, 2015: ¤¤ The great challenge of Nadal: mind and body one hundred percent.
We are accustomed to winning it all and be one of the greatest players in the world. But probably this is the toughest season of Rafa Nadal, who ranks tenth in the world ranking. The psychologist Pablo del Río and sports medicine specialist Javier Cerrato, who know and have worked with him, discussed his mental and physical condition before Wimbledon and examine the challenge of this great sportsman. ¤¤
Read more at (in Spanish):
http://www.efesalud.com/noticias/el-gran-reto-de-nadal-mente-y-cuerpo-al-100/
Rafa is on the cover of Japanese Men’s magazine GOETHE (August, 2015):
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIWQhKbUwAAhVcy.png
CNN, June 25, 2015: ¤¤ Wimbledon 2015: Imagine having Rafa Nadal in your bed ¤¤
🙂
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/25/tennis/wimbledon-houses-nadal-tennis/
@hawkeye63 says:
June 25, 2015 at 2:08 pm
Trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Just as well not all of us are that gullible to buy into it. No matter how much you twist the facts, Djoker is not the best at ROS; no ifs no buts.
^He’s got an excellent first shot on return man. It’s not a big deal but he does. He consistently puts guys on the back foot with his return and that is because he stands right on the baseline. Taking the ball early, with a double-hander (though that’s easier to do than in case of a single-handed BH) is a lethal combination. Obviously once the point is neutral Nadal is as good as anyone out there because he has a better overall balance of strengths on his groundstrokes than Djokovic. Defense, I’d say both are on par on the aggregate.
You mean this guy right?
http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/5-28-2014/L5phlY.gif
#YoureWelcomeMyFan
#VirtualRestrainingOrder
But since you brought it up here (on Tenngrand, that is), this is perhaps my favourite ROS of all time (doesn’t make it a fact that it is indeed the best though as some confused people can’t seem to separate just like the absolutes indulged by the federazzi).
Love the roar of the Federazzi here as Roger sets up for match point, the look of disdain on Nole’s face as the crowd cheers against him and with one “lucky” ROS, he snuffs it all out.
nom, nom, nom, mmmmm, mmmmmm DELICIOUS!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA25BB40gtA
He saved two consecutive match points above in 2011 and did the same thing the year before in 2010 against the federazzi. Thing of absolute beauty. Same initial roar from the crowd just to fall silent as Nole snuffed them out 4-5 15-40 down in the 5th.
Warms my little black heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65j2A9XknY
Whereas this, while an impressive return point won, wasn’t a particularly good ROS…
https://twitter.com/DjokerNole/status/614143533751123968
#HereToHelp
Nice memories from the past. I don’t know that many will ever forget that miraculous ROS from Novak to save match point against Fed at the 2011 USO. Fed seemed to have the match in his grasp, but Novak just snatched it away.
Two very sweet moments.
2011 could not have been done without the best ROS in the game IMO LOL.
hawkeye,
There you go again! Don’t you know that the same stats will be thrown in your face, even though they were taken out of context.
Rafa has even been quoted as saying that Novak has the best ROS! But what does he know! 🙂
In the park 🙂
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIW3nTBXAAEBez3.jpg
We could do with some adults on this forum.
I’ve used google translate and my beginner’s knowledge of the beautiful Castillian language (and Catalan is as beautiful!) to translate the article that Augusta posted a link to above, on June 25, 2015 at 12:11 pm. I was curious to read it properly, once translated, and I am not sure whether shireling will come around to read that particular original post.
The article describes the psychologist as Rafa’s. Not sure what that actually means, as there are no details about their relationship or possible work together.
I was hopeful when starting to read the article to find new information … from this psychologist in particular. Alas, he seems to not really say anything that any of us might have said about rafa 2,3 or 4 years ago. No real reference or insight about any one of the main ‘very off’ days Rafa’s had this year. The whole article is positive and hopeful, but to me reads more like a politically correct statement … good for the sport, good for the sponsors, hopeful for the fans, neither psychologist or doctor say anything not pleasant or negative. But now they end up not talking at all about the very things that have had millions of fans shake their heads and worry. Sorry, but so it is.
~ ~ ~
Nadal’s great challenge: mind and body one hundred percent
More pressure, less confident and more fear . These are the ingredients pointed out by Sports psychologist Paul River , to explain the first months of the low season of Rafa Nadal. And he has always praised the mental strength of the Spaniard tennis player , even over physical strength.
“Given that he has always been characterized to manage to play [well] regardless of the outcome , eventually he was playing too much with the result [I’m not quite sure of the meaning of the last phrase],” said Del Rio , adding that ” this caused him to play with more tension, very negative , we saw him show [express] emotions he on the court that we rarely used to see from him given that he’s a guy who controls them very well.”
Regarding the victory in Stuttgart , the psychologist is confident that it will bring the calm and positivity that Rafa needs . However, he reminds us that “this has nothing to do with Wimbledon , which are two weeks [long] and in the second week you have to play against the best.”
Pablo River defines Nadal as a “prodigy , one of a kind” , psychologically speaking , in addition to being the Spanish athlete with more [the most] resources [abilities] to get out of difficult situations . “For him an adverse situation is a challenge , an opportunity . He is able to play outside the marker [?] and focus on the task that you have to accomplish. This is something only the best are capable of, ” said the expert.
This psychologist explained that it is very difficult to accept when you are used to winning everything , that triumphs arrive more slowly, although he completely disagrees with those who say that this may be the end of the era of Nadal.
As for this early defeat in Queen’s , [this] sports expert is convinced that Nadal will come to “positive conclusions : neither am I so good or so bad, I am who I am.” He downplays Nadal’s elimination at the Queen’s tournament claiming that “competition is very high and on grass one can lose to anybody.”
“He will continue to compete as long as it brings him satisfaction , fun [enjoyment]. It is more no longer having fun that will bring Nadal closer to retiring, than thoughts about becoming number one again,”said Del Rio.
What about the tenth in the world ranking ? For Pablo del Rio, that is “anecdotal ” . “He never cares to think about the rankings, among other reasons because it is neither positive nor advisable. He is interested in what he needs to overcome now, which is to have a more solid game. ” And of course, have no physical discomfort ..
“The end of Rafa Nadal ? ” Far from it ,” answers a resounding Javier Cerrat , a member of the medical service of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation and sports doctor CEMTRO Clinic, who has on occasion the treated the Spaniard .
The end of Rafa Nadal ? ” Far from it ,” answers a resounding Javier Cerrato , a member of the medical service of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation and sports doctor CEMTRO Clinic ; has tried on occasion the Spaniard .
Javier Cerrato compares the talk about this topic with the talk a few years ago about Roger Federer, who continues to soldier on . “Rafa is not in the twilight of his career ,” says the doctor.
“His weakness [vulnerability], if any, is that he has absorbed many years of playing at the highest level because he started very young. He is not quitting the sport just because he is 29 year old, he is able to play a few more years ,” Cerrato said.
[The doctor] rates positively the victory in Stuttgart, although it is not a Grand Slam, and tries to downplay the defeat at Roland Garros arguing that “he lost to Djokovic, so it’s not a catastrophe, or worse”.
Regarding Queen’s, it is clear: “a loss in the first round after travelling and changing tournaments makes you have to adapt.” In addition, the doctor says, “when you play against players like Dolgopolov, who is unpredictable, if they have their day and you don’t, then anyone can win.”
Regarding Wimbledon, Cerrato has the best feelings: “He can win Wimbledon, he is perfectly capable”. In addition, the doctor added that if we were to ask any of his rivals, “Nobody likes having to face Rafa, they are much calmer if they do not have to play against him.”
Both experts have spoken about their impressions and knowledge about Nadal. Now it is the turn of the Spaniard to show the public and himself that he is Rafa for a while yet. The countdown has started to the first hit at Wimbledon.
Actually, now that I’ve re-read the first section, it does not say anywhere that Pablo Del Rio is Nadal’s sports psychologist,
June 25, 2015 at 6:38 pm,
Google translation:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIXe9aGWEAMbZ08.png
You’re right, Augusta… I missed that paragraph when I started to use google translate.
I remember it now. I remember also being hopeful to find out about his work with Rafa. And about his explanations of those frequent, awful and mostly unpredictable off days.of his in 2015.
What’s your comment, then, gussie, on what the psychologist and doctor said and did not say in the rest of the article?
chloro ( at 7:01 pm),
I would be interested in what the psychologist (Pablo del Rio) said if he had worked with Rafa. 🙂
Rafa will play at the Boodles on Friday:
https://twitter.com/TheBoodles/status/614139891115524096
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/06/25/13/29F648EA00000578-3138968-Current_Wimbledon_champion_Novak_Djokovic_greets_Nadal_as_he_tra-a-74_1435233808355.jpg
Nadal greets Djoker at training session in Wimbledon
Nadal’s raining session is headline news;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-3138968/Andy-Murray-best-shape-win-Wimbledon-title-says-former-tennis-star-Tim-Henman.html
Order of Play – Day 4
Friday 26th June 2015
12.30pm
Jack Sock (USA) v Tommy Robredo (ESP)
2.30pm
Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Alexander Zverev (GER)
followed by
Rafael Nadal (ESP) v Robin Haase (NED)
not before 5pm
Mike and Bob Bryan (USA) v Alexander and Mischa Zverev (GER)
According to nadline10, Federer is the GOAT. Here are 35 of those facts she so values. The rest according to her is blowing in the wind. (I of course disagree as Rafa is the GOAT IMO)…
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/06/roger-federer-stats-best-tennis-player-ever-goat-wimbledon-us-open-stats
hawkeye,
Wow! Impressive find! Nice FACTS!
However, I also do not agree that Fed is the GOAT, but for the simple reason that I do not believe there can be a GOAT!
http://www.oregonlive.com/the-spin-of-the-ball/index.ssf/2015/06/rafael_nadal_is_a_long_shot_at.html
“Nadal’s actually in a good place as Wimbledon gets underway: determined to prove he’s not through as a top player, yet with no one expecting him to make an especially good showing. And he’s healthy, which hasn’t been the case on his recent trips to England.”
What’s not to like??
*sprints off to the local bookies to wager a tenner on Rafa making Wimby ’15 Slam #15*
So is the guy above Rafas sports psychologist? Has he brought him onboard?
The Wimbledon draw is today. Hope the tournament organizers have mercy on Rafa; they’ve had their fun, it’s now time for them to make other top players bare the brunt of the giants.
#Vamos Rafa