Posted: 22.03.09 15:06. Post subject: Пресса знает всё! :)

 Posted: 25.03.09 19:31. Post subject: annyRN Ой помню эту..

annyRN
Ой помню эту статейку
Корреспондент какого-то заштано-непрофильного издания якобы взял интервью у Рафы Причем ключиком, давшим ему журналистский доступ к Рафаэлю, названо владение испанским языком...

Полная чепуха.

 Posted: 25.03.09 20:01. Post subject: Интервью Тони Надаля..

Интервью Тони Надаля. Любезно позаимствовала его в теме Эндика

Uncle Toni on Murray
by MurraysDropshot 23 March 2009

A translation of a phone interview (before IW final)between Uncle Toni and a journalist from El Pais newspaper, published this morning (sourced from another tennis messageboard):

"Well,I really hope that Murray doesn't have anything else in his game to improve upon. because if he's going to get better than this then he will be unstoppable. "
........." He runs to everything; he has a lot of talent; he serves well, he has a good right FH and he has a VERY good BH...I wouldn't know where to suggest improvement.....He's a complete player!"
Toni Nadal who has always shown an exquisite admiration and respect for Roger Federer allows himself to wonder about the present form of the Swiss player out loud and in public for the first time."In the match against Murray I saw a slower version of Roger and an unwillingness to work. This is not the same player as only a couple of years ago. He has lowered his standard of play. "

"As of today,Murray and Rafael are the two best players on the circuit. As far as I can tell, they are. Murray has lost only one match this year.. (make that 2 now)
... He is probably the fittest player of the moment right now (но тут дядя загнул, конечно, на фоне Рафы скотт бледен в этом плане) I really believed that it was Djokovic who was going to be the next rival but he has lowered his game a bit....I'm not sure why.. but this is such a psychological sport..."

Uncle Toni continues: " Murray has a great talent and he is a very dangerous player. A rivalry, you ask, between him and Rafael like the one with Federer?.. Unfortunately (for Rafael he means, not for "tennis")).... there are quite a few really good players out there who can make a lot of trouble. There are Djokovic, N abaldian,Delpotro.... Murray and Rafael might one day have a two way rivalry but even though he's very, very good, it will be difficult for Andy to leave on tennis the mark that Federer has made."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A48985140

 Posted: 25.03.09 20:54. Post subject: Дядя расписал Энди к..

Дядя расписал Энди как пасхальное яичко перед финалом УИ - и опасный, и лучший, а Рафа разнес его со свистом

 Posted: 25.03.09 23:17. Post subject: Дядя расписал Энди к..

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Дядя расписал Энди как пасхальное яичко перед финалом УИ - и опасный, и лучший, а Рафа разнес его со свистом

Дядя Тони, делай так всегда!

 Posted: 25.03.09 23:40. Post subject: Надаль признан лучши..

Надаль признан лучшим теннисистом 2008 года по версии ATP

В среду, 25 марта, ATP назвала имена лауреатов 2008 года, награждаемых за достижения в области тенниса. Приза лучшему игроку удостоился испанец Рафаэль Надаль, занимающий первое место в рейтинге. Парой года стали канадец Даниэль Нестор и серб Ненад Зимонжич. Приз имени Артура Эша получил Джеймс Блэйк, ведущий активную благотворительную деятельность. Приз Стефана Эдберга за спортивное мастерство получил Роджер Федерер. Новичком года стал Кей Нишикори. Премию за наибольший профессиональный прогресс получил Жо-Вилфрид Цонга. А "возвращением года" стал немец Райнер Шуттлер.

Кроме того, приз зрительских симпатий также достался швейцарскому теннисисту Роджеру Федереру, который набрал 26,6% голосов респондентов официального сайта организации. В парном разряде аналогичный приз получили братья Майк Брайан и Боб Брайан.

"Чемпионат.ру"

 Posted: 26.03.09 01:37. Post subject: как меня пугают таки..

как меня пугают такие статьи...

Opinion: Nadal Best Ever?
By Scoop Malinowski Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tennisweek.com

Rafael Nadal might be the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport. This guy always answers the call. There are no longer any questions about him. With Pete and Roger it was can he win on clay? There are no questions now about Nadal. He wins on any and every surface. He finds a way.

Almost all the legendary voices of the game were in unison that Federer was the best ever, not long ago. John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Rod Laver, Andre Agassi — just about all of them bestowed Federer with the unofficial title of Greatest Of All Time.

It's not that Federer suddenly lost a half step or lost motivation, it's just that Nadal, to everyone's astonishment, raised the bar. Nadal raised his level to a new height that no one ever saw before, including Federer. The great Federer has no answers to defeat Nadal on any surface. He is utterly baffled.

It doesn't really matter how many total slams Nadal ends up winning, 10, 12, 16, whatever, he is totally dominating tennis right now on all three surfaces, which has never been done before. Even when Federer was on top, we could see the clues that Nadal was a problem for him. But with Nadal on top, there is no potential successor on the horizon who anyone cay say with any degree of certainty will eventually overthrow Nadal. Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic were prime contenders not long ago but look like they could end up as second bananas for years to come.

Rafael Nadal, the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport? Sounds a bit of a reach, but in a few years, at the rate Nadal is going and improving, at the rate he keeps annihilating the field, it might be the undisputed truth.

 Posted: 26.03.09 13:24. Post subject: Can Rafael Nadal Com..

Can Rafael Nadal Complete the Grand Slam?
by Rob York (Analyst)
March 26, 2009

No male tennis player has won the calendar-year Grand Slam in 41 years. No singles player of either gender has done so in 21 years.

We’ve been close: In 2006-2007, Roger Federer twice came within one match of doing so, but was denied. We may be close again: Almost four months into 2009, Rafael Nadal, the man who stood in Federer’s way, may have a chance to do what the great Swiss could not.

Two years ago, it seem fantastical that he’d even be in this position: He was tops on clay, but Nadal’s hard court record was skimpy by comparison, and Federer appeared just as dominant on grass. Until last year, it seemed that Nadal’s role was to be Federer’s riddle; the one thing that kept the Roland Garros crown out of Swiss hands.

Now, as Federer has gone months without a tour title and Nadal has captured the two biggest (hard court) events of 2009, such ideas are much more than fantasy.

Though he has unique challenges of his own (more on that later), Nadal has one advantage over Federer in his pursuit of the complete Grand Slam: No one has Rafa’s number the way Rafa had Roger’s.

Let’s take a look at his odds in the majors that lie ahead.



Roland Garros Odds: 1-2

If Nadal lost here, it would be even more shocking than him winning all four majors this year. Nothing is certain, but Nadal has never lost on Paris clay, and the results of the past few years have only trended toward him, and away from the rest of the field.

Nadal lost all of three sets in his first Roland Garros run in 2005. In 2006, with Federer at his peak and the weight of defending squarely on Nadal’s shoulders, he lost… three sets total.

In 2007, he lost one, and in 2008 none. In fact, the total number of games he lost at last year’s RG was the lowest of any major champion in 30 years.

The clay court season is not yet underway, so it’s thus far unclear who his main obstacles will be. The results of the remaining top 5, however, do not look promising.

Federer is skipping the Master’s Series events in Monte Carlo and Hamburg, playing only two clay events before the RG. If this is not ceding Roland Garros to Nadal, it’s at least an acknowledgment that Federer’s priorities come later in the year.

Meanwhile, world No. 3 Novak Djokovic is floundering. No. 4, Andy Murray, while putting up a good series of results over the past six months, is no one’s clay court specialist (the same goes for No. 6 Andy Roddick, whose had a solid spring). No. 5, Nikolay Davydenko, has seen little playing time so far this year due to injury.

If anyone other than Nadal lifts the Coupe des Mousquetaires this June, it may be the biggest tennis story of the year.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/145285-the-complete-grand-slam-can-rafael-nadal-do-it/poll_results#poll

как начали с АО, все остановиться не могут в спекуляциях

 Posted: 26.03.09 14:53. Post subject: Business Lessons fro..

Business Lessons from a Tennis Pro: A Case Study on Rafa Nadal

Wimbledon, the French Open and then a gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics: Last year was one of the best for Rafa Nadal, who was crowned the world’s leading tennis player. This year could not have begun any better, with the hard-fought final match in which he defeated Switzerland’s Roger Federer at the Australian Open. Now, Nadal will be able to add another item to his list of accomplishments: His sports career has inspired a case study at the IESE Business School.

Santiago Álvarez de Mon, a professor at IESE, is the author of the case study. Alvarez de Mon explains that the research, inspired by the “most admired athlete in Spain,” will be translated into English and will be used by business school classes -- first in Spain and then at the new campus of IESE in New York -- as well as in the programs IESE is developing in Latin America and China. The lessons from Nadal’s career are “universal” and can be applied to the presidents of major corporations as well as to young professionals starting out in the corporate world, the author notes. For those just starting out, the tennis player provides an example of how to cultivate values such as humility, discipline and sacrifice so that the goal is not only to reach the highest level but to stay at one’s peak without losing perspective. For those who have already reached the top of their professional careers, Nadal provides a model of how to plan for the future once a career is over.

According to Alvarez de Mon, it is critical to realize that nothing lasts forever, and that being the number-one player is not the most important thing. This means “gaining perspective [on the fact] that your personality is something intrinsic, [and] you can enjoy being an ex-champion,” he says. Alvarez de Mon conducted several interviews with Nadal and the people who surround him, and he notes in his study that Nadal is fully aware of his future options. “He is a young man of 22 who doesn’t want to stop playing, and he can’t imagine retiring in the short run. Nevertheless, he talks openly about his future, and he is preparing for the day when he will no longer be the number-one tennis player…. Nadal has been able to invest in his character [and not just his professional career]” so that he can live and enjoy other aspects of life beyond his sports championships.

“Whatever he does in the future, he will do with intensity,” Alvarez de Mon says. The key, he adds, is to acknowledge the future, as well as to plan for the change -- to be aware that “any position is something conditional” and to talk about that fact as something natural. “Retirement always arrives, and you have to know how to differentiate between the [professional] ‘personality’ and the actual person.” Doing that requires major reflection and mental discipline; it is something that one also has to train for, he says.

Nurturing Innate Talent

For Alvarez de Mon, talent is something found in an individual’s DNA. However, “after that, you have to work hard and develop it.” Rafa picked up a racket for the first time when he was only three years old. It was his uncle Toni Nadal (now this trainer) who discovered that the little boy had talent simply by observing how he positioned his legs even before anyone had taught him how to do so. At the age of twelve, Rafa was proclaimed the European champion in his category. “There is a precocious component in his talent and it is innate,” Alvarez de Mon says. That’s where the figure of a coach comes in: He is “responsible for identifying, selecting and choosing that talent,” the author notes.

But how much of talent is simply a person’s nature, and up to what point can someone be trained? “At times, it is hard to know who we are, but we recognize what we are not,” says Alvarez de Mon. But for those who are talented, “if you don’t work a great deal, it is not going to catch on.” On the contrary, no matter how much effort an untalented person makes, not much will come of it. For example, Alvarez de Mon recalls the sports career of Michael Jordan, who became the world’s top basketball player. But when Jordan tried to replicate his success elsewhere, in baseball, he wasn’t able to do so.

Alvarez de Mon emphasizes the importance of the people who surround Nadal and stimulate the development of his talent. His family, his trainer, his friends and his girlfriend form the connective link between the player and regular life. In the case of Nadal, the people who surround him perform an advisory role, but every decision about his career is made by him. That was true even when he was 12 years old, and he had to choose whether to continue playing soccer, a sport in which he also excelled, or dedicate himself entirely to tennis. Like any child who likes to play with his friends, he could have chosen soccer. But it was his family that helped him put a high value on the talent he had for tennis. Carlos Costa, an ex-tennis player who is Nadal’s manager, told Alvarez de Mon that the team surrounding Rafa continues to be important in his career, not only from a technical point of view, but also by contributing “a positive outlook when spirits are low.” According to Costa, “Ninety percent of success in tennis is in the head.”

The characteristics of an elite athlete like Nadal -- including discipline, consistency, energy and perseverance -- apply to any senior executive, Alvarez de Mon notes. “You have to work with these qualities every day.” However, he adds, “the invincible combination is character plus talent.” In the case of Nadal, his talent is something innate that has been developed throughout his career under the tutelage of his uncle and trainer. Meanwhile, his professional and personal lives have been well rounded. When Nadal was only a boy of eight, he had already won tournaments in which he competed against players who were four or five years older than he was. “That is a period when fathers play a fundamental role in the development of success.” Now, that role is played by his manager, his family, his friends, his girl friend and even by Manacor, his home town -- in other words, by everything and everyone around him, Alvarez de Mon points out.

The case study also analyzes Nadal’s relationship with Roger Federer, the Swiss tennis player. “These two men compete in a very polished way,” notes Alvarez de Mon. He recalls that Nadal proposed Federer be given the Prince of Asturias Award (an annual award given in eight categories, including sports.) The final match of the Australian Open was an example of the good relationship between the two players. However, above all, it was a lesson in how to win and lose elegantly. Until the moment when he became number-one in the world, Nadal had been defeated on several occasions by Federer, now ranked second. However, perseverance and training contributed to his victory in the Australian finals. For Alvarez de Mon, every executive needs to have this quality, too -- “a natural disposition to continue to learn, and to maintain a natural relationship with mistakes.”

Lessons of the World's Leading Player

So, what can executives learn from the career of Rafa Nadal? Alvarez de Mon believes there are ten key lessons:

1. Talent: Each of us is born with a different talent. The key is to choose a profession that permits you to develop it. Although talent is a function of genetics, it needs to be nurtured in order to bloom fully. Nadal began to play tennis at the age of five and he was only seven when he won his first championship. At the age of twelve, he was the leading player in Europe in his category. And at the age of 22, he was proclaimed the world’s number-one player.

2. Character: Nadal is an example of how a strong and determined character can propel a career to the very top. Along with talent, character is the second engine in an unbeatable duo.

3. Training: In both sports and business, there should be a natural relationship between making mistakes and being prepared to learn. In the case of Nadal, not everything is technique; it’s also about mental control, and about an eagerness to be constantly learning. Before he unseated Federer as the world’s number-one player, Nadal had been defeated on various occasions by his rival.

4. Values: Before you can become number-one, you have to develop such values as humility in order to have a solid foundation for dealing with success. But you also need to know the difference between yourself as a real person, and yourself as a sports and media ‘personality.’

5. Teamwork: Tennis players are solitary competitors on the court, but they always depend on the team that supports them. Trainers and managers act as advisors off the court, but once the match has begun, responsibility falls entirely on the player, just as it does on an executive. Even when just one person is in power, others are working for him behind the scenes.

6. Positive Outlook: Some athletes lose a match before playing it. The secret lies in seeing the problem and turning it into an opportunity. Beyond such a perspective, you also have to exercise mental toughness in order to play your best when conditions are most difficult.

7. Environment: Your family environment is key; it shapes personality and it’s important to remember who you are and where you came from.

8. Coaching: Often, a talented person is the last one to realize what he has. The job of a good coach is to identify talent, select it and train it correctly so that it develops.

9. Pressure: The only way to deal with the pressure of serious competition is to realize that there are other things beyond winning a championship cup.

10. Collaborators: Both senior executives and elite athletes run the risk of surrounding themselves with people who only tell them what they want to hear.

http://wharton.universia.net/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1677&language=english

 Posted: 26.03.09 16:40. Post subject: как меня пугают таки..

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как меня пугают такие статьи...

Меня тоже, я просматриваю их по диагонали и стараюсь на брать в голову.

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как начали с АО, все остановиться не могут в спекуляциях

А что еще журналистам делать? Это сейчас любимая тема, очень благодатная, вот они и будут ее развивать на все лады. Я предпочитаю статьи, написанные по свершившимся фактам, а не размышления и гадания о том, что будет и чем сердце успокоится

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Business Lessons from a Tennis Pro: A Case Study on Rafa Nadal

А вот это очень интересно, я не сомневалась, что рано или поздно начнут так называемый феномен Рафы изучать и анализировать, поскольку его врожденные и благоприобретенные качества - это пример того, как строить успешную карьеру не только в спорте и при этом оставаться нормальным человеком, не теряющим чувства реальности.

 Posted: 27.03.09 00:29. Post subject: March 26, 2009 An i..

March 26, 2009

An interview with:
RAFAEL NADAL
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.


Q. This is kind of about your countryman, Fernando Verdasco. What do you see in him in the last year or two that he went from, like, 20th to like top 10? Obviously we know he's training hard with Agassi's guys. What have you seen out of Fernando that made him so good right now?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he relax a little bit more on court, no? Yeah, he's playing with more calm, having less mistakes. I don't think so the changes, practicing on Las Vegas or something like this, no? Because I think he had a good team for the last few years, and, you know, in two weeks didn't change the world, you know.
Going two weeks to Las Vegas, I don't think you change your tennis. No, I think it's a long time work. And I think he, yeah, he's playing better than before. But the potential was there before, too. So the thing is right now, seems like he's a little bit more focused on court.

Q. Did you hit with him as a young man? Did you guys hit a lot together? I know he's older than you.
RAFAEL NADAL: No, no, I didn't hit with him.

Q. I'm wondering what your impression was of Andy Roddick's game last week. He was just in here talking about his conditioning program. He's lost some weight. Did you see any change in the way he's playing the game these days, or was it the same Andy?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, I think he started the season better than last year's. Yeah, he's playing well, no?
I think seems like he has more motivation right now than last few years. That's my feeling, but you never know.

Q. You've had a lot of time off and still have some more time off before your first match. What have you been doing in Miami other than practice?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, not much. I was in the party yesterday, tennis party. And -- yes, no, no. Not too much. Practicing.

Q. It's Toni's first time here for a couple of years, your coach.
RAFAEL NADAL: Since 2006.

Q. Since 2006. Your first practice with him was yesterday or today?
RAFAEL NADAL: Today.

Q. Did he say anything to you about last week, and does he immediately try to do something...
RAFAEL NADAL: I am playing much better right now. No, come on. (laughter.)

Q. Can you see something? Does he say, I watched you on TV. Maybe you should try this or you should do that or...
RAFAEL NADAL: No, no. He came, and first day is -- well, he watch me on the TV. So, yes, he was very happy about last week, about the tournament at Indian Wells.
I don't know. He's coming here to relax and, well, trying to continue the good work of the last week.

Q. You always say that Roger is the favorite. Right now you are always the favorite at every tournament. Does it add pressure to you, or do you feel differently to be the chased one now?
RAFAEL NADAL: Different between 2 and 1? Completely the same for me. Yeah, no changes.

Q. Why?
RAFAEL NADAL: For me the goal is the same: try to improve my tennis and try to continuing have the good results. In the end, is only one number. No. 1 and No. 2 is only one number of difference.
You know, I say it 100 times, no? I didn't go to sleep thinking if I am No. 1 or No. 2, and I didn't wake up thinking about if I am the No. 1 or No. 2.
I think about I have to play well today or I have to practice well today. I have to improve. Yeah.

Q. Andy was asked if he would rather play you or Roger. He didn't answer. I don't think you're going to answer it. Who would you rather play, Andy or Roger?
RAFAEL NADAL: With who? I didn't understand.

Q. Andy was asked who he wanted to play if he made it in the final, if it would be you or Roger. He did not answer. Who would you rather play of those two?
RAFAEL NADAL: (Through translation.) I would love to play the final is the answer, yeah. (Laughter.)

Q. You've been playing a lot of hardcourt tennis recently. How does your body feel heading into the clay season? How do your knees feel?
RAFAEL NADAL: Okay. Yeah. You can see, no? Okay. I started the season really well, yeah? No problems.

Q. Would you prefer to go out with a girl that is in tennis, that is a tennis player, or any other girl? Just has nothing to do with it.
RAFAEL NADAL: It is not -- I don't have any preference, you know. Prefer go out with nice and funny girl. Doesn't matter if is player or artist.

 Posted: 27.03.09 00:44. Post subject: Apolline’s blog – Na..

Apolline’s blog – Nadal by Sophie, ex Sophriture

Перевод Moondancer c VB.com

By Apolline Céleste, Wednesday, 25th March 2009

When blogging for GrandChelem, it happened from time to time that Apolline recovered one of the comments to make an official editor’s article out of it and this is what she’s going to do with Sophie’s post for a lot of reasons she’s going to explain much later for an article she’s going to write about athletes who can make people dream, people who have trouble finding a reason to live, to keep holding on every 24 hours a day. Sophie already expressed this a month agao under the very symbolic pseudonym Sophriture by talking about the Tsonga-Blake, Tsonga-Roddick matches in Berdy. These were already good matches to come to the right conclusion. But Sophie discovered something more important in Nadal when he was facing Nalbandian. Yes, Nadal was really scared. Nalbandian is a big worry for him but he accepts this worry, he closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and transforms that big fear into an immense courage, a courage that, as we have learned, surpasses even the hopes of his family. Nadal in a state of transcendence, but Sophie’s better at writing about it, at night at half past three.




Posted on Wednesday, 25th March at 03:38 by Sophie.

I no longer view Nadal as a « monster » or a « machine ».

I asked myself that question after having watched the confrontation between Nadal and Nalbandian in Indian Wells.
At the end, one of the commentators on Sport+ said that in the second set, with every new match point for Nalbandian, the belief in the Nadal clan in his victory faded away, like an deflated balloon. However, he went on to win the match.

After Rafa’s victory, my first reaction was to say « bloody hell, how can one be so strong ? ». Thinking about it, I don’t consider Nadal to be a superhero or an alien. He’s a superhuman. Our first impression is that this guy has no weaknesses, that he can make everybody explode just because he’s a force of “nature” and that everything seems so easy for him, but this is not the case. He’s human with everything it entails: feelings, flaws, qualities, weaknesses, strengths.
It’s so uncredible what he’s doing that you have the impression that it’s simply not possible for a human to accomplish such a thing. He gives everything, he’s always pushing his limits. To me, an astonishing example of this is his semi-final match against Verdasco.

Furthemore, it’s not at all a paradox that he has his obsessive compulsive tics. We tend to have those tics when we’re in a frightening situation. It’s the fear and we need to hold on to something. It shows that he’s human. That’s not a machine. He has weaknesses and worries just like everybody.

I find this touching.

To see him go all the way to make his dreams come true.

Before, I was just casually watching tennis, without really paying attention. I liked it well enough but that’s it. But I had this experience which changed my viewpoint. Last October and November, I was at the bottom of a deep hole. I was fighting so many years already, alone, to get out. I was completely empty, unable to get up . Tennis helped me a lot in that moment: Simon against Nadal in the semi-final of Madrid and Tsonga in Bercy. What gave me hope was to see players never giving up hope and continuing to fight.

I didn’t give up hoping so now, I feel better compared with that time and I know for sure that tennis played a role in that.

 Posted: 27.03.09 07:32. Post subject: Nadal even better th..

Nadal even better than you think, says Roddick

By Simon Evans

MIAMI (Reuters) - World number one Rafael Nadal is even better than most people appreciate having become a more complete player, according to his American rival Andy Roddick.

Roddick, ranked sixth, believes Spaniard Nadal's reputation as a powerful baseline player camouflages his improved skills around the court.

"He has developed a chip that gets him out of trouble a lot that no one ever really talks about. They talk about the running and heaviness, but he volleys well.

"He's able to play returns, as evidenced by Wimbledon last year," said Roddick, who like left-hander Nadal is preparing for a second round start in this week's Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.

"They talk about how he stands back, but he's able to mix it up. I don't really think he gets credit for how complete of a tennis player he is.

"I think he kind of gets pigeon holed into what people remember from five years ago," added the 26-year-old.

"The thing about Rafa's game, and the type of ball he hits coming from the left side is that, maybe more so than other players, he's able to kind of say, 'This is what I do. You're going to have to deal with it.'

"But that being said, the guy knows what he's doing on a tennis court. He knows his way around," Roddick said.

Nadal currently holds three of the four grand slam titles and his win at Indian Wells last week gave him his 13th Masters victory.

The Spaniard beat Andy Murray in the final, ending the Briton's good run of form in match-ups between the pair.

Murray said the key to taking on Nadal was not trying to beat him with every shot.

"He's so consistent and really fast. You know, he has obviously one of the heaviest forehands the game has ever seen.

"It's easy to think, you have to play unbelievably all the time. That's not always the case.

"You have to pick the right shots to go for the lines and play aggressive against him, and then you've got a chance.

"It is obviously very difficult, because when you get more tired in the tight situations, you know he's not going to give the points to you.
"That's where you have to be very strong mentally to win against him, especially in the big match tight situations," Murray said.

http://www.reuters.com

 Posted: 27.03.09 13:23. Post subject: Q. It's Toni'..

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Q. It's Toni's first time here for a couple of years, your coach. RAFAEL NADAL: Since 2006.

Тони пожаловал в Майами впервые с 2006 года! Всё-таки поганая метла возымела действие

 Posted: 27.03.09 13:38. Post subject: ольга Хорошая ново..

ольга
Хорошая новость, спасибо.

 Posted: 27.03.09 15:03. Post subject: Почитала интервью Ра..

Почитала интервью Рафы.
Первое, что радует, что Тони в Маями - что-то в лесу... ммм... представилось... или мир перевернулся

А второе запомнилось:

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RAFAEL NADAL: Different between 2 and 1? Completely the same for me. Yeah, no changes. For me the goal is the same: try to improve my tennis and try to continuing have the good results. In the end, is only one number. No. 1 and No. 2 is only one number of difference. You know, I say it 100 times, no? I didn't go to sleep thinking if I am No. 1 or No. 2, and I didn't wake up thinking about if I am the No. 1 or No. 2. I think about I have to play well today or I have to practice well today. I have to improve. Yeah.

 Posted: 27.03.09 17:01. Post subject: ольга пишет: Всё-та..

ольга пишет:

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Всё-таки поганая метла возымела действие

Не поняль... А кто туда его ею гнал?

 Posted: 27.03.09 18:18. Post subject: Нарцисса Не поняль...

Нарцисса

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Не поняль... А кто туда его ею гнал?

Себастьян и Мигель-Анхель в четыре руки и в четыре ноги

 Posted: 27.03.09 23:22. Post subject: На VB.com перевели з..

На VB.com перевели заметку о том, что Рафа действительно похудел - примерно на 4 кг и вырос до 187 см...
Так что мы правильно сказали, что дитенок совсем отощавший!!!

http://www.eldiariomontanes.es/20090325 ... 90325.html

Nadal: less weight, more glory

The number one has lost three or four kilos and will select tournaments more with an eye toward winning the four majors
25.03.09 - J.M. CUELLAR | MADRID

'Another' Rafael Nadal appeared below the stands of Melbourne. The Australian Open already had seen a finer, more select Nadal, less weight and more muscle. A human machine, the perfect man.

The official records of the ATP list the Spaniard as being 1.85 m and 85 kilos. No way! And really, it hasn't been that way for a long time. Rafa Maymó, his physio, stated that at the end of last year the Balearic man was 1.87 meters tall (1.86 and a half, exactly), and when he appeared in Australia it was obvious that he had refined his physique to three or four kilos less (81) than his usual weight (85). Officially, he publicly denies it, but still, in Melbourne some of his entourage were assuring that he had indeed gotten thinner. The concept is evident. Nadal's team sees the possibility of winning all four Grand Slam tournaments. He has won Australia; in Roland Garros, as things stand, it is an unattainable result, much more so if Federer, as it seems, is not going to make the finals this time. [??? doesn't sound right] Wimbledon also is within reach, mainly if the decline of the Swiss is confirmed.

So it all comes down to the U.S. Open, which obviously is a big problem. It is in New York where Rafa arrives with sore muscles and battered body. The approach is to more carefully select care the tournaments that he's going to play in, to calibrate them, and the rest is physical.

 Posted: 28.03.09 00:06. Post subject: ольга пишет: RAFAEL..

ольга пишет:

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RAFAEL NADAL: Since 2006.

РАфа ошибся. в 2007 Тони также приезжал в Маиами

 Posted: 28.03.09 00:16. Post subject: Стив Тиньор написал ..

Стив Тиньор написал на сайте tennis.com, что его статья о Рафе IW: Rafa Sightings (помните? "Забудьте о бицепсах и ногах, о форхендах и бэкхендах. Главная сила Надаля в том, чего труднее всего достичь в жизни любому человеку. Его сила в том, что он честен перед самим собой") получила вдвое больше просмотров, чем какая-либо другая его статья!!! Вот как он это прокомментировал:

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the post i did on him sunday got twice as many views as any other post i've ever done. you know what that means: from now on, all rafa, all the time

IW: Rafa Sightings