Posted: 22.03.09 15:06. Post subject: Пресса знает всё! :) часть 2

 Posted: 27.05.09 21:54. Post subject: Mela Спасибо за ПК!..

Mela
Спасибо за ПК! Рафа ставит рекорды скорости послематчего общения с журналистами в своем рвении посмотреть футбол

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I asked to play earlier than that,but, you know, you can't decide. We have to comply with what's organized, so I had to play the fourth match. I accepted it.

Всё-таки он просил поставить его сегодня пораньше, но навстречу ему не пошли.

 Posted: 27.05.09 22:02. Post subject: Rock-solid Nadal adv..

Rock-solid Nadal advances to Roland Garros round 3

5/27/09 8:22 PM | Kelli DeMario

Rafael Nadal made his way through the second round of competition Wednesday evening, defeating Teimuraz Gabashvili in straight sets. The Spaniard extends his French Open winning streak to a record-setting 30 consecutive matches.

The World No. 1 and four-time defending champion went unbroken during his second-round match on Wednesday, taking out hard-hitting Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. After dismissing three break points in his opening service game, the Spaniard raised his level of play, turning in a much-improved performance than he had during the first round.

Nadal jumped out to a 4-1 advantage in the first set behind some solid play from the baseline. The World No. 1 showcased his superior movement and heavy ground strokes, going on to build a 5-1 lead. Nadal kept his unforced errors to a minimum as well, donating only four of them in the 6-1, 41-minute opening set.

A closer second set would follow with Gabashvili competing hard to reach 3-3. Nadal earned six break point opportunities at 3-3 on the Russian’s serve, but failed to convert any of them. A steady Nadal refocused, collecting three break points at 4-4. The World No. 1 forged ahead, snagging a love service-break after the Russian struck a wild forehand over the baseline. The Spaniard served for a two-set lead at 5-4, closing the second set in 56 minutes.

Nadal wasted no time in the third set, pocketing an immediate break of the Gabashvili serve. The four-time defending champion captured an insurance break, quickly extending his lead to 3-0. The Spaniard survived a slight hiccup on serve at 3-0, erasing just the fourth break point against him in the contest. Nadal took the third set 6-2, finishing the match after two hours and 17 minutes of play.

The top seed completed the day clocking 16 winners, snaring 74% of his first-service points and 70% of his second.

Nadal moves on to face Lleyton Hewitt in the third round. The veteran Australian knocked out Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan in straight sets on Wednesday, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1.

http://www.tennistalk.com/en/match_repo ... Gabashvili

 Posted: 27.05.09 22:33. Post subject: ольга ольга пишет: ..

ольга ольга пишет:

quote:

Всё-таки он просил поставить его сегодня пораньше, но навстречу ему не пошли.

вот какашки

 Posted: 27.05.09 22:58. Post subject: Программу по итогам ..

Программу по итогам игрового дня на РГ вели Женя Кафельников и Игорь Швецов Рассказывая о сегодняшнем матче Рафы, Швецов спросил у Жени, готов ли Рафа к защите титула. "Готов!" - сказал Женя. - "И это моя лошадка, на которую я ставлю!" - засмеялся и ударил кулаком по столу - "В первом матче у него были определенные трудности, но сегодня мы увидели на корте совсем другого игрока". Игорь Швецов не преминул сказать о том, что Женя очень любит Рафу

 Posted: 27.05.09 23:14. Post subject: ольга Спасибо!) Оче..

ольга
Спасибо!) Очень-очень приятно слышать хорошее про Рафу!)

 Posted: 27.05.09 23:44. Post subject: Q. I think you chat..

Mela
спс за ПК!

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Q. I think you chatted with readers from the Spanish newspaper in El Mundo,and in that newspaper you said that you thought Djokovic right now was a bigger threat than Federer. Could you commenton that?

теперь еще и эту тему мусолить будут

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I don't have football in mind all the time,don't you think I have?

заметно
Ольга Коп пишет:

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Прибег весь мокрый, едва ополоснувшись, похоже...

а по моему вообще не ополоснувшись. в чем ушел с корта, в том и пришел на ПК.
как же ему идет эта мастерка. _{*total hinweg*}

 Posted: 28.05.09 04:36. Post subject: Examining Excellence..

Examining Excellence
By Steve Legrice
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tennisweek.com

For seven hours Pascal Maria had been in the umpire’s chair on the Center Court at Wimbledon — officiating over what was already being described as the Greatest Match Ever Played before the climactic fifth set had even begun. The French official’s wife had never been to a match before, but when Maria was selected for the men's final he persuaded her to come over to London and she was in the stands. Now, as the darkness settled over South London they walked hand in hand through the crowds leaving the stadium. "You don’t need to watch tennis again," he told her. "It’s just going to disappoint you."

It’s a telling anecdote in L.Jon Wertheim’s Strokes of Genius on the clash between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the men’s final at Wimbledon last year. Not just because the Sports Illustrated writer excels at filling the holes in the picture with brilliantly reported detail, but also because on some level there is a poignant thread running through the book. This match went to such a level of emotional ecstasy that henceforth everything else would be just tennis.

There is no anti hero in this tale. Just two men of the most extraordinary talent pushing themselves — and indeed their sport — to previously unseen levels in an effort to claim an edge. Consider that after their five set marathon Federer had won 204 points, Nadal only five more.

Wertheim quotes Federer: "I appreciate that tennis went up a notch with that match and that’s what I strove to do in my five years as number one, to make tennis better, more popular, and I admit that that Wimbledon final achieved all I wanted, even if I lost."

Roger Federer is not someone that it is easy to feel sorry for. Not because he is anyway unlikeable, but because he seems to burst with so much natural , and apparently effortless, talent that he appears to operate in a realm beyond we regular mortals. And then Wertheim points out this: A few days after the Wimbledon final Federer was featured for the first time ever on the cover of Sports Illustrated — as the loser of the Greatest Match ever.

Of course it would not have been the Greatest Match Ever, if Federer wasn’t conceivably the greatest player ever. And if Rafael Nadal wasn’t there to challenge him. Cliches and stereotypes are a sportswriters’ best friends, an easy shorthand that help tell and sell a story. One the delights of this book is that Wertheim is not just a great writer but a real reporter who digs for and offers up facts. So the common notions that this is somehow a battle of brains vs brawn; or the steely cool of a Northern European vs the passionate machismo of a Mediterranean are exploded by the evidence. Nadal — and his uncle and coach Toni — take on the feel of chess masters constantly probing Federer’s defenses and exploring new ways to get around them. In this match it is Federer, not Nadal, who has costly lapses in concentration.

Serving in the final game of their marathon Nadal for the first time in the match serve-and-volleyed.

"It was," writes Wertheim, "the perfect strategy at the perfect time. This wasn’t just a testament to Nadal’s guts; it was a testament to his tennis cortex too, a sharp rejoinder to the critics who dismiss him as brutal and machine like. He had lost the previous point from the baseline, so he figured he would try something new."

Because of Nadal’s ripped physique the attention is on his physical fitness. But to Wertheim "in Federer’s case it’s the most underrated component of his game." Several times a year he travels with Pierre Paganini to Dubai for four hour long training sessions in the Middle Eastern heat.

Another of the paradoxes of this rivalry is the clearcut respect both camps have for the other. Wertheim points out Robert Federer warmly greeting the Nadal family before the match. And later, when it was over, how Rafa gave Roger his space in the shared dressing room. But more interestingly is the way that even in victory the Nadals see Federer as the greatest tennis player. Toni Nadal explains: "There is a difference between ‘who is better’ and ‘who knows more’. Better now is Rafael according to the ranking. But who has the best game? Federer."

Which comes back to the astute observation that beating anyone else to win the Wimbledon title would not have counted in the same way. "Beating Federer, the greatest player of all time? A match like this? How could it not feel like a dream," Rafa said afterwards.

Strokes of Genius breaks the match down into the five sets and Wertheim uses each for lengthy sidebars on everything from Wimbledon traditions, to gambling and steroids. We hear from the inventor of Hawkeye and learn how it works — and how by the end of the game it was not operating because there was not enough light. We learn from the groundskeepers that the grass is ripped up the day after men’s final and a new seed is planted which is kept trimmed to 14 mm for 11 months and then for the championships is cut to 8 mm. We discover that replicas of Federer’s cream cardigan were on sale in the gift shop for close to $500 and that only 230 were made – to correspond, ironically, with the weeks he had spent as the world’s No. 1 player.

But ultimately, this book is about the two players who made history on July 6, 2008. Something, perhaps, Nadal had a premonition of. As he practiced that morning with his agent Carlos Costa, Costa noticed something different. Nadal had shaved for the first time in the tournament. Why, he asked…

"When you win Wimbledon, you want to look your best," Rafa replied.

Strokes of Genius (Federer, Nadal and The Greatest Match Ever Played) is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Priced $24.00

 Posted: 28.05.09 06:07. Post subject: Solving The Rafa Rid..

Solving The Rafa Riddle
By PAUL MACPHERSON
Published: May 25, 2009
DEUCE
atptennis.com

Rafael Nadal has suffered just five clay-court losses in five years. As the four-time defending champion returns to Roland Garros, are there lessons to be learned from those defeats? Or is the Spaniard a lock to again go all the way in Paris?

Rafael Nadal is a man accustomed to getting what he wants or, more to the point, taking what he earns. There is nothing he wants more than a record-breaking fifth consecutive title at Roland Garros, where he is one of the hottest favourites in Grand Slam history. As was the case with Pete Sampras and Roger Federer during their dominant runs at Wimbledon, it’s difficult to build a cogent argument detailing how Nadal can be beaten in Paris. But, as history shows, the Sampras and Federer runs did eventually end.

Does anyone have the mental and physical strength required to beat Nadal at Roland Garros this year? Tattooed in players’ consciousness is Nadal’s jaw-dropping clay-court run since 2005: 150 wins and five losses, coming into Paris. Collectively, the victories tell an amazing tale with no shortage of stunning records and statistics. But when debating whether Nadal will be beaten in Paris this year, here is all you need to know: Nadal boasts a perfect 45-0 record in best-of-five-set matches on clay, has only twice been pushed to a fifth set and never at Roland Garros, where he comes into the 2009 event with an unbeaten 28-0 record.

There’s not much comfort in those numbers for players hoping to upset the Spaniard this year. But what about the five losses in five years: Can any lessons be gleaned from Nadal’s defeats? In trying to identify a game plan to beat the Spaniard, it could be argued that other factors had as much, or more, to do with the five losses than did the play or tactics of the winner.

It may sound harsh to deny Roger Federer full credit for his highly-satisfying win over Nadal in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid final earlier this month, but as well as the Swiss played, Nadal clearly was not at his best physically after toiling for more than four hours the day before to beat Novak Djokovic in a brutal semi-final. It certainly wasn’t the same Nadal as the one who handed Federer a 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 loss in the 2008 Roland Garros final. Having said that, Federer played very smart, using the elevation in Madrid to his advantage, attacking relentlessly, keeping points short and serving big. “Playing on clay at a different altitude… gives you opportunities to play aggressive,” said Federer, adding that “it’s not so easy to hit passing shots because at times on other surfaces when itґs so slow itґs almost impossible to come to the net [against Nadal].

“We both had trouble controlling the ball, because the points were kept shorter it was better for my game and that’s why I won today. I saw some of those things against Djokovic, that he was struggling in the beginning to control his serve and probably Djokovic should have finished him off in two.”

Perhaps it was Djokovic, who also took a set from Nadal just weeks earlier in Monte-Carlo, who revealed a game plan that could work against the Spaniard, even in Paris, without the benefit of altitude. It worked well enough to earn Djokovic three match points in Madrid before Nadal won 3-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(9).

Taking an opposing view to Andy Murray, who caused Nadal some discomfort in Monte-Carlo with high, bouncy topspin, Djokovic instead worked his way into a winning position by hitting flat and deep, making it harder for the left-hander to run around his backhand. Hitting low and deep also denied Nadal the time and bounce to rip his most vicious topspin forehands. Djokovic also flouted conventional wisdom by hitting wide to the Nadal forehand – a wing most players avoid like the plague. But what’s the point of consistently hitting to Nadal’s backhand? If the rally goes long enough eventually he’ll find a ball to run around and open up the court like a can of peaches.

Willing to hit to the forehand court, Djokovic reduced Nadal’s ability to run around his backhand and unleash his favourite forehand. And well-executed blows wide to the forehand that took Nadal out of court left the backhand court exposed, allowing the Serb to hit clean winners. Taking a different approach to Federer, Djokovic was also willing to hang with Nadal in extended baseline rallies. From the club player to the ATP World Tour pro, when an underdog goes up against a more fancied opponent there is a tendency to play too aggressively in the belief that the only way to win is to take chances on every point. Despite never having beaten Nadal on clay, Djokovic was often willing to dig in from the baseline and not give away free points. Indeed, Nadal threw in 50 unforced errors in the match, including 11 unforced forehand errors in the first set. But don’t expect to see those numbers again anytime soon.

“I’m very disappointed that I can play this well and still not win a match,” Djokovic said. “I think that I’ve played my best tennis on this surface.” Despite pushing Nadal that close, Djokovic was unable to identify what he could have done differently on the match points he held. “If I knew I would probably win,” he quipped in exasperation.

Former Roland Garros champion Gaston Gaudio and Russian Igor Andreev, two of the four players to have recorded clay-court wins over Nadal in the past five years, tell DEUCE that they are doubtful that anyone can beat Nadal at Roland Garros this year.

“On clay Rafa is almost unbeatable,” says Gaudio, who is the only player to have beaten Nadal three times on clay, but not since 2005. “He is in great shape physically. It is hard to predict who could beat him, but I don’t think there is anyone that could do that at the moment. He is pretty much invincible on clay. I don’t really know [how you go about beating him]. He has no weaknesses. You have to attack and hope not to make many mistakes. I beat him when he was not at the top.”

Andreev, who beat Nadal 7-5, 6-2 in Valencia in 2005, says: “There are not many things to explore when you play against him… I’m really not sure what’s the perfect game plan. You have to play aggressive and not make many mistakes. He fights for every point and makes few mistakes, so you really have to take your chances. Maybe if he is having a bad day some of the top players could give him trouble. Djokovic played a close match with him in Monte-Carlo [and Madrid]. But playing best of five sets is a different story.”

Indeed it is. A few players have shown the ability to truly compete with Nadal on clay in short bursts – perhaps for five or six games or even for long enough to eke out a set like Djokovic did in Monte-Carlo – but almost always Nadal pulls away when that intensity inevitably begins to wane. Djokovic’s heroic performance in the epic Madrid semi-final is a glaring exception and one that may give his fellow players hope. But how many players honestly believe they can win three sets against Nadal at Roland Garros, where the clay king has never been taken to a fifth set?

As for taking advantage of chances when they arise, that’s what Federer did exceedingly well in the Madrid final. The Swiss, who saved all four break points against him, converted both break point opportunities he earned on Nadal’s serve. Contrast that with his break point conversion in three consecutive Roland Garros finals with Nadal: 1 of 4 in 2008, 1 of 17 in 2007 and 3 of 10 in 2006 for a combined mark of five service breaks from 31 break point chances.

While there are lessons to be drawn from Madrid, not many secrets were revealed in Nadal’s second most recent loss on clay – to former Roland Garros champion Juan Carlos Ferrero in the first round of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Rome last year. After winning Monte-Carlo and Barcelona in consecutive weeks leading into Rome, Nadal was hobbled by blisters on his feet and lost 7-5, 6-1. For context, Nadal won his next five tournaments after Rome (including the Roland Garros-Wimbledon double), for a streak of seven titles from eight tournaments. Perhaps the only take-away from Rome was a lesson about Nadal’s character. Despite being intensely proud of his clay-court record, Nadal refused to retire in the second set against Ferrero.

Nadal’s third most recent clay-court defeat was his loss to Federer in the 2007 Hamburg final, which snapped the Spaniard’s 81-match match winning streak on the surface. After winning Monte-Carlo, Barcelona and Rome in the lead-up, and having battled Lleyton Hewitt for 2 Ѕ hours the day before in the semi-finals, Nadal ran out of gas in the final. He won the first set 6-2 but then managed just two more games for the match as Federer ran away a 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 winner.

Before that, you have to look back to Valencia in 2005, when Nadal was just 18, to find another loss on clay (to Andreev). His only other loss on clay during the past five years was a bizarre 0-6, 6-0, 6-1 loss to Gaudio in the quarter-finals of Buenos Aires in Nadal’s first clay tournament of the year. He responded by winning back-to-back titles in Costa do Sauipe and Acapulco in the following weeks and by thrashing Gaudio 6-3, 6-0 when they next met on clay in Monte-Carlo.

Has much been learned by Nadal’s five clay losses since 2005? The loss to Federer in Madrid – accompanied by the near-loss to Djokovic one day earlier – appears to have returned the most intelligence. But elevation won’t be a factor in Paris.

Federer, who is in a race with Nadal to become just the sixth man in history to win all four Grand Slam titles, has not given up hope of claiming the elusive Roland Garros crown in his 11th attempt, but he knows not to overplay the significance of his Madrid victory. “I don’t think that’s he is going to be damaged by this… I’m sure he will be rock solid in Paris again. [But] I think that we have seen this week, that if you play Rafa the right way there are chances.”

Roger may be proved correct. But, as Mike Tyson once said of his opponents, “Everyone’s got a plan till they get hit.”

 Posted: 28.05.09 20:04. Post subject: Вопрос о Надале в бл..

Вопрос о Надале в блоге Собкина на спортс.ру и ответ автора блога.

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27 мая this_fire Борис Львович, следите ли вы за другими игроками, общаетесь ли с другими тренерами время от времени? Очень интересует текущее состояние Надаля, очень много противоричивой информации. Хотелось бы узнать как обстоят дела на самом деле. По оффициальному радио Ролан Гарос, и нескольим интернет источникам говорили, что на тренировке у него обострилась ситуация с коленом. В прошлом году болело правое колено, в этом году левое. И в матче с Даниэлем он держался за колено. Некоторые писали, что боль он почувстовал еще в матче с Вердаско в Мадриде. Врач Рафаэля заявил, что ничего серьезного нет, все в порядке. Но вот уже 5-ый матч (Вердаско, Джокович, Федерер, Даниэль, Габашвили), играет не так как всегда, а хуже. Я смотрел практически все игры Рафаэля (которые транслировали) в последние годы, и сейчас он играет не в «свою игру», а с натугой, не всегда добегает до мячей, не всегда хорошо подходит, больше ошибается. Это из-за проблем со здоровьем, или просто усталость сильная могла накопиться? Спасибо. 28 мая Борис Собкин Я постоянно общаюсь с другими тренерами, и естественно слежу за другими игроками. Два дня назад я общался с Тони Надалем. У Рафы , действительно были проблемы, правда вне корта, но сейчас всё в порядке и его ничего не отвлекает. Что касается качества игры, то я наблюдал за его тренировкой с Массу во вторник и прямо скажу Надаль выглядел не лучшим образом. Правда может быть это и хорошо, так как есть возможность добавить по ходу турнира. Что касается его здоровья, то я не в курсе. В разговоре с Тони я заметил, что, на мой взгляд, Барселона была для него лишней, на что Тони сказал, что скорее не Барселона, а Мадрид. Ему естественно видней. В любом случае элементы усталости заметны.

http://www.sports.ru/blog/sobkin/9254452.html?comments=1#comments

 Posted: 28.05.09 20:21. Post subject: хруня, спасибо, очен..

хруня, спасибо, очень интересно почитать мнение Бориса Собкина.

хруня пишет:

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Борис Собкин ...У Рафы , действительно были проблемы, правда вне корта

А как это понимать? Личные что ли?

 Posted: 28.05.09 20:57. Post subject: хруня и вспоминаетс..

хруня
и вспоминается то давнее интервью с загадочной фразой . хорошо, если все это позади.

 Posted: 28.05.09 21:44. Post subject: Кстати, статья в Vog..

Кстати, статья в Vogue тоже наводит на мысли о том, что были "проблемы вне корта". Там написано, что интервью и фотосессия отменялись несколько раз, что Рафа был неконтактный и какой-то отстраненный.

 Posted: 28.05.09 22:02. Post subject: ольга так. я, конеч..

ольга
так. я, конечно, не за всем слежу и не все читаю. может, там что-то с Хиской разлаживалось? хорошо, если только это, ТТТТТТТ.

 Posted: 28.05.09 22:19. Post subject: Tatiana Может, и с ..

Tatiana
Может, и с Хиской. Никакой информации на этот счет нет. Вообще никто ничего толком не знает. Бодо еще в Майами обещал приоткрыть завесу тайны, но так ничего и не придумал. А Тони надо бы помалкивать побольше.

 Posted: 28.05.09 22:30. Post subject: Tatiana пишет: мож..

Tatiana пишет:

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может, там что-то с Хиской разлаживалось

Конечно, когда читаешь про проблемы вне корта, то первое, что можно подумать так это про личную жизнь!
ольга пишет:

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А Тони надо бы помалкивать побольше.

Лучше жевать, чем говорить (с)

 Posted: 29.05.09 22:28. Post subject: French Open Friday, ..

French Open
Friday, May 29, 2009

R. NADAL/L.Hewitt 6‑1, 6‑3,6‑1

An interview with: RAFAEL NADAL

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English first, please.

Q. That was a really great match today from your side. Are you close to maybe your best? What are your thoughts about that? How did you feel on the court?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I feel, yeah, I feel much better todaythan the other days. I improved a littlebit every day. I play better the secondday than the first. Today is importantimprove, no? Always a win againstLleyton is a very good news. Youmust be playing well.

So I won 6‑1, 6‑3, 6‑1, so isamazing result for me. Very happy for bein fourth round right now.

Q. I know you're not happy with some of the rules from the world antidopingagency. Could you tell me again why youthink that these rules are so problematic?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, always the same, no? Always when I say something, later youwrite. I am the first one who wants thesport totally clean, no, the tennis totally clean.

But I think, I don't know ifit's ‑‑ well, I don't know, no. Iknow that's not correct. Have to reserveone hour every day for the antidoping, no? I think it's not nice they are at your room at 8:00 in the morning. They call you and say, We are here, and youhave two more hours for sleep, no?

I think that's not nice. And the second thing is we have to work inanother matter. That's what I feel,no? Because I against this new rule,no? (Through translation.) It would bebetter, but never mind.

THE MODERATOR: Questions in Spanish, please.

Q. What were you saying in English? Could you repeat this in Spanish?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, yes. You know, people write all sorts of things, and, you know, things werewritten in the papers here in France. I wouldn't say stupid things, but I wouldlike this sport to be as clean as possible.

There's no doubt about what Isaid. You see, of course there are thosewho cheat, should be punished. This isall. When you practice this type ofsport, what is important is that, you know, they have to find me and know whereI play.

These guys have to know where Iplay. I was on Monday in Madrid. I was with my friends. Then I have a bath. My mother called me. She told me the guys were in my house in Madrid. It was my only free evening. I have to take this antidoping control. It was the same several days ago. Ferrer and Fernando were tested as well, at6:00 a.m. because they had to play from 6:00 to 7:00, or they had just played,or rather they had played a five‑set match. It's crazy.

I don't know if, from the legalpoint of view, this is correct. That is,to know where you are every single moment of your life, and to account forthis. This is what I think.

I don't think this is a right thingto do. It's wrong. It's a high price to pay to practice yoursport, to play tennis. I want tennis to beas clean as possible, of course. This iscrystal clear. But there's room formaneuvering. You see, there's a certaintype of leeway.

Q. In Australia, during a press conference you've talked about this, and Irealize that nothing has changed. Itseems that nothing will change.

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I have the impression that all theplayers say the same about this. I don'tknow if there's one player who says something different, but I don't thinkso. The vast majority are against thisrule.

Q. How could players be against this?

RAFAEL NADAL: No, that's not what I meant. And I don't want to keep on talking aboutthis during the whole press conference. You know, we're all players. That's all it is.

I know that drugs is not an easymatter to deal with, but we've paid the price for this. And, in fact, the ITF should takemeasures. I don't have the impressionthat it's good to put so much pressure on us. They harass us, I think.

The ITF should do something aboutit, otherwise we could perhaps come up with another solution, another remedy,another solution for us to play tennis in a more tranquil way.

You know, if I lose tomorrow, I'llgo back to Mallorca, and who will know where Iam if I have no access to Internet, if I don't send e‑mails to my family?

Now, if they knock at my door in Mallorca, they're going to give me a warning. It's happened to Carlos before. They sent him a warning, and this is mostunfair.

Q. I promise it's going to be the very last question on drugs orantidoping. This year it seems thatthere are more tests. In addition to theinternational federation, there are more tests. What do you think about this?

RAFAEL NADAL: More analyses?

Q. Yes. More than what is done bythe ITF. It seems that the French agencyhas decided to carry out more tests. What has happened to Gasquet, for instance.

RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. I don't know anything about this. I think that this is not yet clear. Okay, Gasquet has been tested. Isupport him. I'm certain that he's nottaking anything. He's not takingcocaine. I know him. He's a good friend of mine, and I discussedthis with him last week.

No, no, impossible. He's most certainly not taking cocaine. You know what the world is like today. You know, when you go to a party, anythingcan happen these days. If you kiss agirl who's taken cocaine, anything can happen, and that's the truth. That's reality, and this can destroy yourlife or your career, rather, and this is most unfair.

You know, I wanted totell him again that I support him fully. He's got my total support. I toldhim on the phone, and sometimes I think these measures go too far and they'remost unfair.

Q. Now, let's talk about the match. I suppose you're happy. Your gameis developing nicely, and we've seen that since the first round. You've changed. You've evolved. What about your feelings? Is it like last year's?

RAFAEL NADAL: No, last year I didn't play that well duringthe third round. But what is importantis what has happened so far.

Each day I play better,and I think, you know, this is what it's all about. I have to improve daily. I'm happy, really. My backhand is good. To start with, I played good shots. My drive is better.

You know, when it was 3to 2, I was up 3‑2, and then Love‑30, that was good. I managed to fight back. But at the end ofthe day, the result was good, which is excellent news.

 Posted: 29.05.09 22:58. Post subject: Бодо еще в Майами об..

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Бодо еще в Майами обещал приоткрыть завесу тайны, но так ничего и не придумал. А Тони надо бы помалкивать побольше.

Так что выходит, что эти "проблемы вне корта" были еще до Майами? Но в Австралии вроде все нормально было Хотя, с другой стороны, мы не можем точно знать, было ли там все нормально в Австралии или нет...

 Posted: 29.05.09 23:07. Post subject: Ну и ПК http://jpe...

Ну и ПК О матче - полтора слова...

Мне нравится, что Рафа пытается защитить Ришара, тогда как франки его практицки начали гнобить... Но версия с поцелуем звучит ИМХО неубедительно.
А вообще это лишний раз доказывает, что во время турнира лучше не следовать заветам Ильича в трактовке Этетрнала. То есть не "бухать" и не "гулять"

 Posted: 29.05.09 23:12. Post subject: Ченальдина Рафа пос..

Ченальдина
Рафа после проигрыша в Маями сослался на личные проблемы, отвечая на вопросы журналистов на ПК. Думаю, эти проблемы появились именно во время турнира в Маями

 Posted: 30.05.09 00:29. Post subject: хруня Ну да, я помн..

хруня
Ну да, я помню, после проигрыша Дель Потро его спросили, а он ответил, что есть причины, но это личное...Остается только гадать...