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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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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I think the top 10 should have their fair share of playing tall players. They should be placed against them in rotation.
I am almost sure that Rafa would ave won Wimbledon had Gasquet taken one of his match points against Krygios. That’s why I’m not rushing to criticize Rafa especially not his ROS because he has a 20:0 record against Isner, Karlovic, Raonic and Gulbis which is much better than Nole’s record against them.
^^Don’t tell me you’ve switched over to the dark side and become a draw cynic @nadline10!
#TheTruthIsOutThere
I’ve always been a draw cynic.
https://twitter.com/genny_ss/statuses/488624134294077440
Today he has 64 titles!
12 years, 14 Slams. Not a bad return imo………….
To me this is the stat that beggars belief, and is not talked about more (we know why): winning a Slam on 9 (or is it 10?) successive years. How can this be a lesser measure of consistency than consecutive semis at a Slam? Never mind, #rhetorical.
Correction: Today he has 64 ATP titles (without Futures and Challengers).
I hope Rafa continues his great form since the FO and I hope he wing the WTF this year. Raonic might qualify this year and we wait and see whether Andy will. He’ll have to up his game if he wants to stay in the top 10 let alone qualify for the WTF.
Shame on the ATP!!!
Rafa Roundup: Why did the ATP not know that Rafael Nadal qualified before Novak Djokovic?
http://rafaelnadalfans.com/2014/07/14/why-did-the-atp-not-know-that-rafael-nadal-qualified-before-novak-djokovic-atp-world-tour-finals/
Last week, the ATP staff wrote that Djoko was the first to qualify. Shame on the ATP!!!
They did.
^^When? Link, please?
There is no link. That’s my point.
#TheTruthIsOutThere
The inconvenient ATP player: Rafael Nadal Parera.
Just after Wimbledon, Peter Bodo wrote a blog where he opined that Nivak Djokovic’s storyline has now surpassed Rafa’s. I said to myself, “If it has, it does not need announcing, Mr. Bodo”.
Some people’s attempts and efforts to air-brush Rafa out of the picture have now assumed pathetic proportions.
rafaisthebest ( at 2:47 pm),
Djoko fans on TW site complain that Mr.Bodo has been disrespectful towards Djoko…
@augusta08 at 3:26 pm,
Bodo is first and foremost a Fedfan. Nolefans will learn soon enough when (not if) he overturns that H2H against Roger and stretches it, that Federazzi “love” is conditional and that they were never for him, they were against Rafa, as usual.
I saw the tweet below on Saturday and I was mystified why the announcement only needed to made today when Rafa had qualified way back, in fact was the first to qualify. Ah well, it’s only Rafa, no?
RT @BenRothenberg : “ATP just confirmed with me that Rafael Nadal has indeed already mathematically qualified for London WTFs. Announcement will be made Monday.”
Girls – a red blonde and a dark blonde – are trying their luck. 🙂
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10514591_773273089361028_7363051375943528782_n.jpg
https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/10486524_773273066027697_180935166823291972_n.jpg
This is the ATP announcement on Rafa’s qualification to the WTF:
“Rafael Nadal will return to London this November in an attempt to capture his first career season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals title. Nadal joins three-time champion Novak Djokovic as the first two singles players to qualify for this year’s season finale, to be held at The O2 from 9-16 November.”
http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2014/07/29/London-Finale-Nadal-Bryans-Qualify.aspx
This is what one poster said in the comments section:
Gloria Hamilton-Forde says:
“The ATP could have saved face by saying Novak joined Rafa to qualify rather than Nadal joined Djokovic. It makes no sense to say that Nadal joined Djokovic when Nadal got there first as he hasn’t gained any points since they announced that Novak was the first to qualify.
The ATP is shamelessly trying to promote Djokovic because they think his profile is not high enough. Rafa doesn’t need their help, he has charisma to burn.”
Thank you, Gloria. Well said.
“The ATP is shamelessly trying to promote Djokovic………….”
The ATP is not alone in this endeavor.
https://twitter.com/LynHarris/status/488745118787457026
hahahahahaha
😀
Rafa announced on his FB page: ¤¤ Back to training with great enthusiasm! ¤¤
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/p417x417/10544384_10152351961611026_583119603252159898_n.jpg
^^Love the retro headband..
Vamos Rafa!!
enthusiasm ! VAMOS RAFA..got to win Toronto
I am happy to hear that Rafa is back training again, with enthusiasm! Good for you, Rafa!
😀 I have a feeling that rafa is quietly confident from inside. He knows that the back was pure bad luck and then kyrgios loss was just….well….forget it. He will be recharged and a big force in Toronto
Rafa was clearly bitterly disappointed at losing to Kyrgios – had he survived that match I’m certain he would have gone on to win his third Wimbledon title. However agree with you it does not appear to have knocked his confidence. All the pics of him relaxing with friends in ibiza point to that. Fingers crossed for the H/C swing.
What I love about Rafa is the enthusiasm he still has for his job! Nothing worse than waking up and feeling, “Oh no, not another day at THAT office”. That is the positivity that makes him a winner.
The international tennis center Rafa is building in his home town Manacor:
https://twitter.com/diariomallorca/status/489347541108924416/photo/1
^^Giving back to his community, love it!
The Swiss Indoors officials announce that Rafa and Wawrinka will play on the opening day of the tournament
https://twitter.com/_Swiss_Indoors/status/489303113464295424/photo/1
RT @bgtennisnation: “I think with the success of Kyrgios we are now going to teenagers that will be coming to top 100 in the next 18 months”
Typical. Someone beats Rafa and he is put on a “success” pedestal. Poor Dolgo, Almagro and Ferru must be feeling left out…………………
A victory against Rafa seems to be the gold standard for achievement against a specific person. Here’s an interview with Gilles Simon where he talks about his victory against Rafa in 2008 as being the one that gave him the best feeling (it was Madrid, indoor hardcourt) and his recent match against Rafa in Rome as being the best match he ever played even though he lost.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2691134/GILLES-SIMON-Beating-Rafael-Nadal-gave-best-feeling.html
^^Oh, and Gilles has defeated every one of the big four, so he had all of them from which to choose.
Hopefully, with everyone seemingly on a mission to elevate Novak’s profile, Rafa will receive less attention (fat chance!) and be allowed to go about his business with less pressure.
Rafa won the ESPY Best Male Tennis Player Award!
From Rafael Nadal Fans:
¤¤ Rafael Nadal won the Best Male Tennis Player award at the 22nd Annual ESPY Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.
The ESPY, short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly, honors sports achievement in the past calendar year, with the winners decided by online fan balloting at the ESPN website. ¤¤
http://rafaelnadalfans.com/2014/07/17/rafael-nadal-wins-espy-best-male-tennis-player-award/
Vamoooooooooos Rafa!
^^All they had to do was look at my “name” 🙂
#rafaisthebest
RT @RafaelNadal : “Very happy for this award! Thanks to @ESPYS and to all of you for always supporting me.”
You are welcome, Rafa!
Vamos Rafa, no matter what!
So how will this award square with Fed winning the fan’s favourite this year. Yes I know it’s not exactly thei same kind if thing but that’s splitting hairs .
Very easy to square this circle, @nadline10: The ATP only counts those votes which are for Fed and voila! Fed wins the His Coach Award, case closed.
Lol.
I’m sure Rafa knows he is the true fans’ favourite.???
Rafa? He is too humb1e to know this for sure, no?
https://twitter.com/TennisChannel/status/489818819641081856
#VamosGOAT!!!
hawkeye, there is a difference between knowing a fact and boasting about it, no? True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Rafa wore a sleeveless shirt during his practice yesterday. It’s similar to his US Open shirt
https://twitter.com/SitTanyusha/status/490077539038396416/photo/1
A back view of Rafa
https://twitter.com/RAFAddicted/statuses/490520952229203970
^^That one from the back is from this series of photos. That’s the one that caught my eye, though.
http://www.tenisnadal.com/fotos-rafa-nadal-entrenando-en-pista-dura-manacor-17-julio-2014-copyright-de-anuska-fan-de-rafa.html#.U8qdkejn9dh
This appears to be Rafa’s outfit for the American season:
http://store.nike.com/gb/en_gb/pw/rafael-nadal/8s9?cp=EUNS_KW_UK_2_Tennis_Generics_SL_RafaelNadalCollection
Are you saying he will be reverting to a sleeveless top for the USO? I don’t see any featured in the Nadal Collection in the above link. His shorts are getting shorter and shorter – they’ll soon be at the 70’s length 🙂
yup..rafa’s gona wear sleveless at the open !
Goody gumdrops………………. 🙂
For some weird reason if I’m using Google Chrome Word Press doesn’t recognise me
^^I half suspected that was you……..
ed251137@July 20, 2014 at 6:37 pm,
Try to Log In (& Log Out) here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/
Use your e-mail address to Sign In (not your user name).
It’s more convenient to sign-in on that site than on The Grandstand, and you can mark/tick the option ‘Stay signed in’.
Log In = Sign In
I haven’t used different browsers (to log-in Grandstand) for a long time, but I remember that I had to Log Out before using another browser.
Thanks for the tip Gussie. I normally use Safari but the livescore site (Definish.com) had stopped opening with Safari so I’d switched over to Chrome Google. I think Nadline experienced the same problem.
ed251137 ( at 7:00 am),
You’re welcome!