Rafael Nadal

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Nadal 5

Current ranking: 14

Last result: Australian Open second round (lost to Mackenzie McDonald)

Next tournament: Roland Garros

47 Comments on Rafael Nadal

  2. Real have their 10th CL trophy, Atletico are stuck on zero. I hope we will be saying the same thing in 2 week’s time regarding a certain young man from Mallorca……..

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  3. Love the way Ramos and Casillas reach out to hug the King of Spain……..somehow can’t see John Terry doing that to Prince Charles….

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  4. RT @NeilHarmanTimes : “Can’t help feeling Real’s victory so much in keeping with huge fan @RafaelNadal Keep going, keep fighting, wear opponents down. An omen?”

    RT @bgtennisnation : “@NeilHarmanTimes @RafaelNadal nice call,you know Rafa would be very fired up about that result last night,play to the final whistle or point”

    Vamos Rafa!

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  5. RT @darren_cahill: “Random stat. Nadal has played 122 matches since February last year (16 months) after a 7 month lay-off. That’s a heavy schedule for Rafa.”

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    • ^^^^A perceptive analysis which puts the past few months into perspective.

      Not only the timing of his latest injury, which was the cruellest blow, but after fighting back from knee problems for the umpteenth time to suddenly have a totally new injury to contend with must have made Rafa question if his body would ever stop letting him down.

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    • Best quote:

      In fact, looking at the record, you might conclude that the French have had the opposite of their desired effect on Nadal. At 61-1, Rafa’s record in Paris is the best of any player at any Grand Slam in the Open era. Ironically, it was Federer, distracted by their oohs and aahs in Lenglen, who screamed at the crowd to “Shut up!” two years ago.

      Have the French actually helped the Ogre dominate their tournament? Nadal has always said that “you have to love the suffering” to be a great champion; you have to learn to ignore adversity, whether it’s physical or emotional. For he and his uncle, outlasting an opponent, and enduring an oppressive situation, has always been at the heart of their competitive approach. You could see it today in the way Nadal reacted to the challenge of playing a young up-and-comer like Thiem, in front of a crowd that was for the underdog. It was hardly a coincidence that Rafa played one of his best and most focused matches of 2014.

      #VamosRafaNoMatterWhat
      #9oat
      #YAAAARRRRR!!!

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      • That’s mainly because the mostly old and stodgy fedfarts don’t know what social media is (same reason for Nole fans because 90% of them are just expat closet federazzi).

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      • “Social Leaderboard

        Starting 13 January 2014, the social leaderboard determines the most popular player at the Australian Open. Every time you tweet about a player or ‘like’ something written about them on this site, their ranking improves. So make sure your player has a high ranking.”

        http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/social/index.html

        I hope RG copy another novel Australian Open concept, all court, high definition streaming…….for FREE, provided on their website.

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      • True RITB. Its really nice how AO live stream all their matches in HD for FREE. All tennis tournamets espacially the majors should emulate this.

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    • rafaisthebest (at 7:03 pm)

      The Social Leaderboard is developed in partnership with IBM.

      The official sites of the 2014 Australian Open and Roland Garros are designed, built and hosted by IBM.

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      • @augusta08, oh, I get it. So it’s IBM’s idea. Shame they don’t control the content, otherwise we would also have match streaming off the RG site.

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    • Well said Nadline. I know you have often tried to correct the impression that the French in general are anti-Rafa. This myth is perpetually aired but in all of his matches I have been at been at I was never aware of outright hostility. Hawkeye mentioned the match against Grosjean, when the crowd rioted for something like seven minutes. I was at that match and can confirm their anger was directed at the umpire for a call that went against Grosjean not Rafa himself. I was angry at Grosjean and the umpire, neither of whom made enough effort to calm the crowd down, but I was mightily impressed at how calm the 18 year old Rafa remained – waiting politely for it all to die down before going on to win. That was the moment I became an ardent Rafa fan.

      Thank goodness I saw the 2009 defeat on TV. It would have been hateful to have been there for that when the behaviour was indeed shocking. But as we know, it only takes a few rabble rousers to incite a crowd to be excessively hostile – as happened at the AO final this year.

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  17. Fedfans like to perpetuate this myth because it makes them feel better about Rafa shutting Roger out of RG. I am not buying into their malicious propaganda until I see the evidence for myself. I have never been to RG but from what I see on TV, Rafa is very popular in Paris. People follow him like the pied piper, they loudly cheer him onto the court and he gets the biggest birthday cake ever on his birthday year after year after year.

    Of course they were going to cheer for Thiem against the 8 times champion.

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  18. I’m not talking about the French or Parisians in general.

    I’m referring to the majority of the crowd in attendance at Nadal matches at RG. (i.e, the same crowd for which Tiggy refers in his very well written article).

    I’m no fedfan in case you haven’t noticed.

    Standing ovations for Soderling in 2009 don’t lie. There was no such celebration when Sod did the same to Fed.

    #AgreeToDisagree

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    • jpacnw,

      This is a lovely picture! A nice moment between these two. I have to believe that it lifted the spirits of this man who is battling a terrible disease.

      Thanks for posting it! 🙂

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