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

32 Comments on Rafael Nadal

  3. if rafa has his 4th rnd on tuesday, his qtr final will be on thurs and semi on friday? not possible ! :S

    I thought wimbledon starts having all 4th rnd matches on monday !! I am confused ! somebody please clear my confusion

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    • its’s unbelievable isn’t it ! I really hate wimbledon for their tradition of not playing on Sunday ! so the two most successful players if wimbledon get to play back to back matches if they win on tuesday.

      Wawrinka /Istomin/Isner/Lopez will have to play on monday,tues and weds if they are to advance to the semis !

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      • Yet people have the nerve to criticize scheduling at the USO? At least they don’t take off a whole day in the middle of the competition.

        Given that there were matches rained out, then maybe Wimbledon could make an exception in the name of fairness? I guess not.

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  7. Men’s matches should be scheduled first … let the, finish their best-of-5 tussles and then the women can follow because even if they miss their match or complete it partially, they can play it the next day.. playing best of three back-to-back matches is completely different…

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  8. It’s even worse for the group whose matches got cancelled on Saturday. Stan/Istomin and Lopez/Isner play on Monday. The winner of that plays on Tuesday and makes it through to the quarter finals on Wednesday. Guess who they would meet? Roger, should he make it through to the quarters. So, Roger will have to play 2 days in a row, but whoever he meets in the quarterfinals will have played 3 days in a row unless the schedulers change the timing of the quarterfinals.

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  9. Sorry, vamosrafa. Just noticed that my post is basically identical to yours. But I do find it interesting that Roger is the potential opponent for whomever plays 3 days in a row.

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  13. The Observer

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201…hail-kukushkin

    Rafael Nadal hit a level of excellence on day six of the Wimbledon championships that was so good it erased the temporary pain of his third straight false start, leaving poor Mikhail Kukushkin in a bewildered heap on Centre Court.

    There are a few ways to beat Nadal over five sets. One of them would get you a stretch in prison and the confiscation of your machine gun; another is to summon the courage to take on the fearsome Spanish hitter at his own game and hope he disintegrates. Usually only Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray in recent years have been capable of the latter, and not very often – but players such as Lukas Rosol and Steve Darcis here in the past two years have given mortals hope with their audacity.

    Better players than Kukushkin have crumbled in Nadal’s presence. What might hurt the Kazakh more than others so heavily humiliated, however, is the memory of that wonderful first set. If he could reproduce that every time he would no doubt be a top 50 player. Actually, if he could reproduce that every time he would be Rafael Nadal.

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  15. The King all round!!

    http://www.thesportreview.com/tsr/2014/06/wimbledon-2014-rafael-nadal-wins-the-all-social-championships/

    As the All England Tennis Championships got underway at Wimbledon on Monday, Rafael Nadal claimed an early victory in the All Social Championships – a competition between the top male and female stars to find the best player in social media.
    With stiff competition from his on-court rivals Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, as well as Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams, Nadal’s expert use of social media saw him crowned king of the digital court.

    International sports marketing agency, Fast Track, created four rounds of social media match-ups between the players, who competed for biggest audience growth, engagement and frequency of tweeting. Uniquely, it meant male and female players went head-to-head with no disadvantages, resulting in Victoria Azarenka outclassing Stan Wawrinka, and an easy win for Sharapova over David Ferrer in Facebook audience growth.

    With 20.4 million followers across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, Nadal is the most followed tennis player in the world, growing at a rate of over 8,000 a day.

    Head of Digital at Fast Track, Graeme Harrison, said: “The use of social media by the world’s top tennis stars is impressively high. We wanted to look at not just who had the largest following, but who “gets it” the most. Rafael Nadal doesn’t just have the most followers, he does more to engage them online too, with insights via imagery, and comment on his interests away from tennis.

    “This isn’t just good news for his fans, but for ‘Brand Nadal’ as a whole. He might be no.2 seed at Wimbledon but he takes the All Social Championships hands down.”

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  17. If you are a Rafan you HAVE to read this article by a fan, utterly fantastic!

    http://www.changeovertennis.com/fan-fare-look-rafael-nadal-survival-mode/

    Choice quote:

    “It’s the hair that’s a dead giveaway.

    When Rafael Nadal is on court and his timing and rhythm are off, his hair is even more out-of-control than usual. There’s a certain tilt to the bandana, it’s pushed up with just a little bit of hair hanging down below it on his forehead, which is inevitably dripping with sweat.

    Every Rafa fan can tell it’s one of those matches just by looking at the hair, even if they turn it on at a point in the match when the scoreboard isn’t being displayed. That particular bandana-and-hair combination instantly tells us he’s in a fight for his life out there, and at the moment, he’s losing. He usually ends up winning in the end, sometimes when the hair is at its wildest, but not always.”

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    • I read the piece ritb but I have forgotten it already because I have enough stress going on when Rafa is playing without checking the position of his bandana.

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      • Rafa was at, or near, his very best on Saturday. I’m having ‘mares he might have peaked too soon.

        #EeyhoreSyndrome

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