Posted: 02.06.09 11:44. Post subject: Rafael Nadal: A Cham..
Rafael Nadal: A Champion in Victory and a Champion in Loss
by Rohini Iyer (Senior Writer)
June 01, 2009
Rafael Nadal redefined the meaning of the word "humility" yesterday.
With a stoic maturity that is seldom displayed by many, this 22 year old's grace and "life moves on" attitude after the worst defeat he has ever suffered in clay, has opened another chapter about his down-to-earth aura.
Writing this feels weird because as a Federer fan, I am supposed to be jumping up and down with ecstasy, finding faults and double entendres, mocking him for his saintly demeanour in his press conference in addition to speculating that his composure was a facade to divert his inner feelings from the world.
But, I can't do it...for if I were to do it, I would be the worst possible sadist alive on the planet.
It's not that I didn't want him to lose...yes I did, but not to some obscure Swede who, after defeating Rafa, maintains that Bjorn Borg should SMS him as if he has conquered Mount Everest.
I wanted Rafa to be there in the finals against Federer, wanted to see them clash and mark their rivalry with a new bookmark, and hoped that it would be in Federer's favour this time.
Not to gloat, but to see them fight until the finish, (last year's debacle still rankles) to see them lock horns, at any surface, any match, and any tournament—it is a treat for the eyes and nothing would have compared to the emotion of Federer gaining the trophy from Rafa Nadal.
A full completion of a circle!
And though his defeat put aside all such dreams and hopes, there was a contentment that I rooted for Rafa until the end yesterday, and it was doubly satisfying when I read his presser at the official RG site.
As a fan, I am a bad loser almost reaching to the point of "sour grapes," but after reading this guy's feedback, it feels like I should be hiding in some remote corner of the world dropping my head in abject shame.
Losing is one thing, but to come out and talk as if it's no big deal, giving credit to a man who is bragging about his greatness at the other end...that is a monumental effort and demands a stand-up ovation.
Being touted as the favourite, attempting to create a record for yourself, and to see it getting washed away in this manner and then accepting it: Yes, I did make a mistake, and I hope to learn from it in the days to come.
It's not easy and many cannot carry it off with the surety that Rafa did.
Rafa's blatant acceptance of the reality, perhaps far more earlier than when his fans and friends did, reflects his balance and greatness as a professional.
As a part of the whole, it takes a lot of different men and women to comprise the world of tennis, and it's really worthwhile that Rafael Nadal forms a larger than life part of it: Both as the victor and as the vanquished...Vamos Rafa!
Posted: 02.06.09 11:45. Post subject: Rafael Nadal...Keepi..
Rafael Nadal...Keeping Defeat in Perspective and Pulling for Roger
by Donald Fincher (Analyst)
June 01, 2009
See that picture of Nadal? As a favor to his fans, I reached back to Madrid to grab a photo when he wasn't wearing the now cursed pink shirt. People always say "if I were a betting man", I'd do this or that. Well, I AM a betting man and my money is on superstitious Rafa NEVER wearing the pink again.
I just got a chance to listen to Rafa’s post-game comments with the Spanish Q & A translated into English. He made no excuses and was classy about it. He tried to downplay it but we all know how significant this was to him.
What really stood out for me was the fact that he was as laid back about it as he was. Perhaps Uncle Tony had slipped him a tranquilizer. Perhaps he had a stiff drink before going to the presser. Whatever the case, he didn’t act like the world was over or that anything all that significant had happened.
I know the Spaniards pride themselves on putting on a brave face and not showing weakness. But he really did eerily seem almost like he was a bit relieved. It’s like he knew it had to happen at some point and the weight has been lifted.
It’s just too bad that it was to a guy that Rafa didn’t like. It would be easier for him, his fans, and the tennis world to take if it was to someone that Rafa could take some solace in losing to. In other words, when one loses, it always relieves the sting a bit if the person that was helped by your loss is someone for whom you want to see helped. Verdasco comes to mind.
I think if Rafa knew ahead of time that he was going to lose to someone on his side of the bracket and he could choose the guy, it would have been Verdasco. And the very last guy would have been Soderling. It’s too bad how fate works sometimes.
I think he will change his schedule next year. And I don’t think he will play quite as much. There are things to be learned here. And privately, he’ll consider those things with his inner circle and go forward. But he was having no part of letting the media put forth excuses such as too much playing in such a short time. I must say that I admire that.
And something else I admire is what he said about hoping Roger wins. Of course he said the expected part about wanting a Spaniard to win but he named Roger by name. If Roger wins, he becomes a calendar slam winner and ties Pete Sampras. But because Pete couldn’t win the French (and he didn’t even have to play the likes of Rafa), Roger will become known as the Greatest.
And, conventional wisdom would say that, with that monkey off of his back, he goes into Wimbledon with a full head of steam, no more Sampras burden, and lots of confidence where he will probably win. And, Roger hasn’t lost the US Open in five years. He could even gain the No. 1 ranking back.
So if Roger wins, it puts him on a trajectory that will make it most difficult to ever catch him (which we know the competitive side of Rafa wants to do). To complicate that matter for Rafa, in order to have a chance to catch Roger, Rafa needed to be able to count on another two or three French Open titles which he now knows cannot be seen as a given as much as they were seen that way before yesterday. So, to know that a Roger win likely means he’ll never catch up to Roger and, in spite of that, Rafa still says he wants Roger to win and that Roger deserves it, I have to assume that he really does mean it.
And that may be the classiest thing of all that he did today…to show that even in what must be one of his darkest hours, he’s can still be thinking of someone besides himself and wishing someone else good fortune. From this Roger fan, all I can say is…well done Rafa. I respected you before and my respect has grown.
Posted: 03.06.09 14:01. Post subject: Вот. http://jpe.ru/..
Вот. Всех с Рафиным днем рождения!
Мнение переводчика местами не совпадает с мнением автора статьи. Но что-то меня в ней зацепило - видимо, последняя фраза.
Рафаэль Надаль: чемпион в победах и чемпион в поражениях
by Rohini Iyer (Senior Writer)
01 июня 2009 г.
Вчера Рафаэль Надаль заставил нас переосмыслить слово «смирение».
То, как этот 22-летний теннисист встретил самое досадное из поражений, которые ему когда-либо приходилось терпеть на грунте – со стоической зрелостью, продемонстрировать которую способны далеко немногие, с достоинством и пониманием того, что жизнь продолжается – открыло нам новую грань окружающей его ауры простоты и трезвого подхода к жизни.
Странно, что всё это пишу именно я. Я же болею за Федерера. Я же должен прыгать от радости, находить придирки и выискивать двусмысленности, подтрунивать над тем, как он держался на пресс-конференции (мол, «тоже мне, святоша!»), рассуждать, что его самообладание было всего лишь фасадом, за которым скрывались от внешнего мира его внутренние переживания.
Но я просто неспособен так поступить… Если бы я так поступил, я был бы самым жестоким из всех садистов мира.
Не могу сказать, что я не хотел, чтобы он проиграл… Да, я этого хотел. Но я не хотел, чтобы он проиграл какому-то непонятному шведу, который, победив Рафу, считает, что теперь Бьорн Борг должен слать ему поздравительные СМС-ки, словно он только что покорил Эверест.
Я хотел, чтобы Рафа встретился в финале с Федерером, хотел, чтобы они вновь сошлись на поле боя и вписали еще одну яркую главу в историю их соперничества. И я надеялся, что в этот раз всё сложится в пользу Федерера.
Не злорадствовать, но наблюдать за их битвой до самого конца (боль от прошлогоднего поражения еще не улеглась), наблюдать, как они скрещивают ракетки, на любом покрытии, в любом матче, на любом турнире – вот истинное наслаждение для глаз. И ничто бы не сравнилось с радостью от того, что Федерер выиграл трофей у Рафы Надаля.
Круг бы замкнулся!
И хотя его поражение положило конец подобным мечтам и надеждам, я всё-таки рад, что вчера болел за Рафу до самого конца. И мне было вдвойне приятно прочитать текст его пресс-конференции на официальном сайте Ролан Гаррос.
Как болельщик, я тяжело переживаю проигрыши. Иногда я даже чуть не дохожу до рассуждений из серии «зелен виноград». Но когда я прочитал те слова, которые этот парень сказал после матча, у меня возникло ощущение, что мне следует спрятаться от всех на краю света и сидеть там, закрыв лицо руками от ужасного стыда.
Проиграть – это одно, но выйти и говорить об этом так, как будто ничего особенного не произошло, отдавая при этом дань уважения человеку, который в это время совсем неподалеку вовсю распространяется о своем величии – это поступок, требующий колоссальной силы и достойный овации стоя.
Когда тебя все прочат фаворитом, когда ты идешь на новый рекорд, и вдруг всё вот так рушится, признать это и сказать: «Да, я допустил ошибку, и в будущем я надеюсь извлечь из этого урок»…
Это непросто и немногие способны держаться при этом так же уверенно, как Рафа.
То, с какой смелостью Рафа принял реальность произошедшего, возможно даже гораздо раньше, чем его болельщики и друзья, показывает, насколько он рассудительный человек и великий профессионал.
Множество самых разных мужчин и женщин – как части единого целого – составляют мир тенниса. И как же прекрасно, что огромной – больше чем жизнь – частью этого мира является Рафаэль Надаль.
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Posted: 04.06.09 08:40. Post subject: AstraM Ну вот, опят..
AstraM Ну вот, опять разревелась Даже не прослезилась, а именно разревелась! ... Хорошая статья!!! Мне понравилась! AstraM, спасибо за перевод
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Проиграть – это одно, но выйти и говорить об этом так, как будто ничего особенного не произошло, отдавая при этом дань уважения человеку, который в это время совсем неподалеку вовсю распространяется о своем величии – это поступок, требующий колоссальной силы и достойный овации стоя.
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Когда тебя все прочат фаворитом, когда ты идешь на новый рекорд, и вдруг всё вот так рушится, признать это и сказать: «Да, я допустил ошибку, и в будущем я надеюсь извлечь из этого урок»… Это непросто и немногие способны держаться при этом так же уверенно, как Рафа. То, с какой смелостью Рафа принял реальность произошедшего, возможно даже гораздо раньше, чем его болельщики и друзья, показывает, насколько он рассудительный человек и великий профессионал.
Очень-очень правильные слова!
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Множество самых разных мужчин и женщин – как части единого целого – составляют мир тенниса. И как же прекрасно, что огромной – больше чем жизнь – частью этого мира является Рафаэль Надаль
Posted: 04.06.09 10:20. Post subject: AstraM Спасибо, отл..
AstraM Спасибо, отличный перевод! И статья очень хорошая, я бы даже сказала, удивительная статья. Интересно, с чем ты "местами" не согласна с мнением автора?
Posted: 04.06.09 10:30. Post subject: Я тоже быстренько пе..
Я тоже быстренько перевела (с сокращениями) статью, которая мне очень понравилась
Rafael Nadal finds deep meaning in defeat
Matthew Syed
Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Shakespeare certainly thought so. In the defining soliloquy of Henry IV Part 1, Prince Hal states: “If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.” Rafael Nadal had a rare accident on Sunday.
Well, rare does not really do it justice. It was an unprecedented, unexpected, utterly unforeseen accident of the kind that comes around once in a sporting lifetime; a defeat every bit as shocking as Mike Tyson's against James “Buster” Douglas more than 19 years ago when an aura of invincibility was shattered in the moment it took a gloved fist to swivel a previously impenetrable jaw.
Nadal had never lost at Roland Garros; he had won 32 straight matches (he had also won 32 straight sets stretching back to the final with Roger Federer in 2007); and he had done so with an authority and an imperiousness that brooked no dispute. The Coupe Des Mousquetaires seemed as near as damn it to being the personal possession of the conquistadorial Spaniard, with his opponents less pretenders than subjects.
Then Nadal lost. To Robin Söderling (who?). A Swede seeded at No23 in the competition (how low?). A man who had little reputation on clay and even less of a reputation in the minds of tennis fans around the world, even if his status is on an upward trajectory after his demolition of Nikolay Davydenko in yesterday's quarter-final. Many of us did not even bother to tune into the match, fearful that it would not even be a match. A waste of our time. A waste of Nadal's time. A waste of Söderling's time.
A warm-up, at best, for Nadal's next contest.
And then he lost.
Some will take Nadal's defeat as eloquent testimony to sport's infinite capacity to spring surprises, to keep us guessing, to ravish us with its glorious capriciousness. And there is something in that. But Nadal took a different lesson, a subtler lesson, dare I say it, a more philosophical lesson. In his defeat, Nadal told us that he had glimpsed the meaning of victory.
It was a crowded press conference after the match. Neil Harman, the tennis correspondent of The Times (a man who, if you ask me, has one of the most wondrous jobs on the planet), wrote that it was stuffy and airless, the room so full of people and curiosity, so weighed down with disbelief, that it was difficult to breathe. Nadal came in with his boyish face and sculpted biceps and, sensing the tumult, raised an eyebrow.
Then came his quote, one of the more revelatory to emerge from a post-match press conference, occasions that typically incubate soulless banalities: “Defeats never make you grow, but you also realise how difficult what I achieved up until today was, and this is something you need sometimes. You need a defeat to give the value to your victories.” And it was that last sentiment that penetrated the deepest, many discerning something vaguely Kipling-esque in its powerful simplicity. “You need a defeat to give the value to your victories.”
Nadal almost made it sound like a blessing (the type well disguised); that his success at Roland Garros had endured for so long that victory was beginning to lose its emotional vitality; that his reign in Paris had, to paraphrase Shakespeare, begun to feel like an overlong holiday. How better to remind oneself of the savour of victory than to taste the bitterness of defeat?
Partly, no doubt, the sentiment was expressed by Nadal to help him to come to terms with the shock and disappointment of his loss; it was, in essence, the kind of post-match rationalisation that sportsmen often indulge in when walking out of the exit door. They spend their lives striving for victory, punishing their bodies and minds in pursuit of fame and glory and then, when they lose, they tell us it did not matter all that much after all.
Nadal was at it again in his blog on Monday, evoking Boris Becker's famous line (used after the German's defeat in the second round at Wimbledon in 1987: “I lost a game of tennis. Nobody died”) when he wrote: “The first thing I want to say is that it was only a tennis match yesterday. No big drama. It happens, and I knew it would happen one day. It had to be yesterday and well, now I just have to look at that match and see what I did wrong. It is not a tragedy.”
We all use these little psychological ruses as we make our way through the world; creating mini-narratives to help us through local difficulties, grand narratives that help us to make sense of it all. I, too, often dwelled on the triviality of sport in the moments after I had lost a precious contest, but it was not the kind of speculation you would have often found me indulging in when swilling champagne after one of my (sadly rare) triumphs.
But Nadal's idea that defeat gives value to victories does not simply express a consolation, but a truth that is far deeper. A truth rooted in the mind. A truth with which we are all familiar.
The first time I had an article published in The Times I sprinted down to the local newsagent and marvelled at the black-and-white reality of my byline. I walked around my neighbourhood in Richmond with the paper under my arm showing anybody who cared to look. The Times! Me! Can you believe it? Isn't it wonderful?
Over the years, that excitement gave way to a frisson, then to a mere echo of a frisson and now seeing my byline has become part of the fabric of my life. I will miss it desperately when, for whatever reason, I stop writing, but its continuation is no longer capable of elevating my soul and electrifying my spirit. Not in the way it used to. That is not to “diss” The Times but merely to state a law of psychology.
None of this is to dispute that Nadal would have enjoyed victory at this year's French Open. He would have felt a palpable sense of elation and marvelled at how his name was being writ ever larger into the iconography of the game he so dearly loves. But would it have compared to the virginal emotions of his first victory, or even his second or third? Would it mean quite as much if he were defending his title for the tenth or fifteenth time?
Defeat is a precious gift to the all-conquering sportsman: an opportunity to learn, to adapt, to develop. But ultimately it is an opportunity to rediscover the essential meaning of victory. That is why Nadal will return stronger, deeper and hungrier.
Nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Sport is so often about taking unexpected opportunities, something that will vex Andy Murray as he comes to terms with yesterday's defeat by Fernando González. The Chilean played well, his forehand producing thunderbolts from the back of the court, particularly when running around to play it from the backhand side, but it was a match that a peak-form Murray would have won. And, deep down, the Scot knows it.
Некоторые воспримут поражение Надаля как яркое подтверждение того, что спорт способен постоянно нас удивлять, заставлять нас гадать об исходе поединка, терзать нас своей непредсказуемостью. И в этом что-то есть. Но Надаль вынес иной урок, более тонкий, и я бы сказал, более философский урок. Потерпев поражение, Надаль сказал нам, что он задумался о значении победы.
На пресс-конференцию после матча собралось очень много народу. Нейл Харман, теннисный обозреватель The Times, написал, что в помещении было тесно и душно, оно было настолько заполнено людьми и любопытством, настолько пропитано неверием в то, что произошло, что было трудно дышать. Вошел Надаль, со своим мальчишеским лицом и литыми бицепсами, и, почувствовав царившее смятение, поднял бровь.
А затем последовала одна из фраз, наиболее откровенных на послематчевых пресс-конференциях, на которых чаще слышишь банальности: «Поражения никогда не способствуют росту, но ты осознаешь, насколько было трудно достичь всего того, чего достиг я до сегодняшнего дня, и это то, что иногда тебе необходимо. Нужно проиграть, чтобы оценить свои победы».
Именно это последнее высказывание проникло в душу глубже всего, многие нашли что-то Киплинговское в его веской простоте. «Нужно проиграть, чтобы оценить свои победы».
Это прозвучало так, как будто это пошло ему на благо. Его успех на РГ продолжался так долго, что победы перестали приносить прежние эмоции, его владычество в Париже, если перефразировать Шекспира, стало похожим на затянувшийся праздник. Как лучше всего напомнить себе об особом вкусе победы, если не испить горечь поражения?
Без сомнения, отчасти эта мысль была высказана Надалем, чтобы помочь самому себе пережить шок и разочарование от поражения. В сущности, это было рациональное объяснение, к которму спортсмены часто прибегают после матча. Они кладут жизнь на алтарь победы, терзая свое тело и психику в погоне за славой и титулами, а затем, проигрывая, говорят, что это, в конце концов, не имеет такого уж большого значения.
Надаль вернулся к этому в своем блоге, напомнив знаменитую фразу Бориса Беккера («Я проиграл теннисный матч. Никто не умер», когда написал: «Первое, что я хочу сказать, что вчера был всего лишь теннисный матч. Никакой большой драмы. Такое случается, и я знал, что это когда-нибудь случится. Это произошло вчера, и я должен вернуться к этому матчу, чтобы понять, что я сделал не так. Никакой трагедии».
Все мы прибегаем к этим маленьким психологическим уловкам на нашем жизненном пути.
Но мысль Надаля о том, что поражение увеличивает ценность победы - не просто утешение самого себя, а гораздо более глубокая истина. Истина, с которой сталкиваемся мы все.
Когда моя статья была впервые напечатана в The Times, я помчался в ближайший киоск и с восхищением разглядывал свой текст, напечатанный по-настоящему, черным по белому. Я прошелся по окрестным улицам Ричмонда с газетой под мышкой, показывая ее всем, кто хотел посмотреть. Я! В The Times! В это можно поверить? Разве это не чудо?
С течением лет этот восторг сменился трепетом, затем слабым подобием трепета, а сейчас появление моих статей стало просто частью моей жизни. Мне будет этого безумно не хватать, если по какой-то причине я прекращу писать. Но теперь душа уже не поет, радость не зашкаливает, как было раньше. Я говорю об этом не для того, чтобы принизить The Times, а просто для того, чтобы изложить один из законов психологии.
Написанное выше не опровергает того, что Надаль радовался бы своей победе на РГ этого года. Он бы ощутил чувство огромной радости и восторгался бы тем, что его имя будет вписано огромными буквами в анналы игры, которую он так сильно любит. Но можно ли это сравнить со свежими эмоциями от первой победы или даже второй или третьей? Будет ли это так много значить для него, если он выиграет титул в десятый или в пятнадцатый раз?
Поражение – это бесценный дар для непобедимого спортсмена. Это возможность вынести уроки, развиваться дальше. Но самое главное – это возможность вновь открыть для себя значимость победы. Поэтому Надаль вернется более сильным, более зрелым, более жадным до побед.
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Posted: 04.06.09 13:03. Post subject: AstraM ольга Огром..
AstraM ольга Огромное спасибо вам за ваши потрясающие переводы... Нет что-то пока ни сил, ни желания читать что-то по-английски, а благодаря вашей заботе мы ознакомлены с лучшим из написанного!!! Еще раз спасибо!!! И со всеми авторами я согласна! Во всем! Только очень скучно до Квинса...
Posted: 04.06.09 15:20. Post subject: Dinusik ольга Ольга ..
Dinusik ольга Ольга Коп Спасибо!
ольга Я теми местами с автором не согласна, в которых он мечтает о том, как Рождер выиграет у Рафы. У меня-то мечты прямо противоположные, естессно! Тебе тоже спасибо за перевод (и за все предыдущие тоже). Хоть я по-английски и понимаю, по-русски оно всё же как-то ближе и роднее, тем более когда это так мастерски выполнено. А тут английский вариант даже читать не пришлось.
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Нужно проиграть, чтобы оценить свои победы.
Золотые слова! Мне, кстати, эта его фраза с ПК тоже очень запомнилась.
Posted: 04.06.09 21:08. Post subject: http://jpe.ru/gif/s..
Dear mister Nadal,
By Bart Lagae, Het Nieuwsblad June 3, 2009
Dear Rafa,
We’re writing you with deep feelings of sympathy and guilt. We’re ashamed for not having done this sooner. Luckily, it’s never too late to say sorry. Therefor, today – on your 23rd birthday – we’re asking your forgiveness: perdón, perdón, perdón. lo sentimos mucho.
We shouldn’t have howled along with the wolves on Sunday after your defeat against Robin Söderling. Or in this case: along with the morons in the stands of Court Phillipe Chatrier. Your Court Philippe Chatrier. The temple where you wrote history 4 years long.
The booing you received when you left Paris is a disgrace to the sport. The cheers for Söderling are at least surreal. You only have to think back to your match in the clay court tournament in Rome and watch one of the dirtiest tricks in the history of men’s tennis Söderling tried against you (follow the link above to find that video).
Contrary to Söderling, you proved that a tennis player should not only be great in victory but also in defeat. Because you were great in defeat. More and more people bear witness to that after having watched it with their own eyes.
Dick Norman said that you – even though you were in a rush to get back to Mallorca – still took the time out to thank every employee in the players lounge personally. This is the sort of courtesy they can never expect to get from Robin Söderling. The (security) people at the gates of Roland Garros know very well that each morning when you come in, you greet everybody whereas Robin Söderling never even nodded at anybody.
We have to shiver when we see how Robin Söderling is described as a great guy with the face of an angel. When we met him in the hotel we shared – he came out of the elevator – we nearly suffocated in a cloud of sulfur and tar. It is high time that one thing has to be said clearly: in the world of tennis, devils are described as saints and the good souls as sinners.
Compared with the “friendly Federer”, you were always described as that brutish animal. The beast who was only busy with his own game and who never took the time out for others. Do tennis fans not know how different it really is behind the scenes? That you’re always prepared to give autographs after a training session, whereas Roger Federer stopped doing that years ago? That you live more for your sport than your everlasting rival? That you are where you deserve to be: at the top of the ATP world ranking?
From a good source, we know that you cried non-stop in the taxi on the way from your hotel to the airport. This only proves how deeply the defeat and the behavior of the crowd affected you. It also proves how courageous you behaved in those first hours after your defeat. Roger Federer also cries, but only in the presence of cameras.
For this and for so much more, for having written nothing and for having howled along with the wolves in the forest, I ask you: perdón, perdón, perdón. Maybe, some tennis fans will change their mind about you. Quizás, quizás, quizás
With the most humble greetings,
Bart Lagae Paris, in a dark little cellar under the Court Phillippe Chatrier June 3, 2009
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Posted: 04.06.09 21:37. Post subject: AstraM Ольга Спасиб..
AstraM Ольга Спасибо Вам огромное за замечательные переводы!
Читаю такие слова и каждый раз удивляюсь, что Рафа еще лучше и достойнее, чем я считала его минуту назад... И конца этому видимо не будет... Рафа - настоящий чемпион не только в спорте, а и в жизни, а этого, на мой взгляд, добиться гораздо сложнее... Какой бесценный пример он подает молодому поколению... Какая же он умница...
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we know that you cried non-stop in the taxi on the way from your hotel to the airport
Posted: 04.06.09 22:47. Post subject: Перевод статьи: Дор..
Перевод статьи:
Дорогой господин Надаль,
Дорогой Рафа,
Мы пишем тебе с чувством глубокой симпатии и вины. Нам стыдно, что мы не сделали этого раньше. К счастью, никогда не поздно извиниться. Поэтому сегодня, в твой День рождения, мы просим у тебя прощения: прости, прости, прости.
Мы не должны были выть вместе с волками в воскресенье, после твоего поражения от Робина Содерлинга. Или в данном случае с придурками с трибун Корта Филлипа Шатрие. Твоего Корта Филилпа Шатрие. Храма, в котором ты писал историю в течение 4-х лет.
Ненависть публики в твой адрес, когда ты покидал Париж, - это позор для спорта. Боление за Содерлинга по крайней мере сюрреалистично. Достаточно только вспомнить твой матч против него в Риме и увидеть один из самых грязных трюков в истории мужского тенниса на Уимблдоне.
В отличие от Содерлинга, ты доказал, что теннисист должен быть велик не только побеждая. Но и проигрывая. Потому что ты был велик после своего поражения. Больше и больше людей становятся этому свидетелями, увидев всё своими глазами.
Дик Норманн рассказал, что ты, даже торопясь на самолет, нашел время, чтобы лично поблагодарить всех служащих помещения для игроков. Этой любезности они никогда не дождутся от Содерлинга. Охрана на входе хорошо знает, что каждое утро, приезжая, ты со всеми здороваешься, в то время как Содерлинг даже не кивает головой.
Пробирает дрожь, когда о Робине Содерлинге говорят как об отличном парне с лицом ангела. Когда мы встретили его в отеле – он выходил из лифта – мы чуть не задохнулись от запаха серы. Давно пора сказать четко и ясно: в мире тенниса дьяволов изображают святыми, а людей с добрым сердцем – грешниками.
В сравнении с «дружелюбным Федерером» тебя всегда описывают, как тупое животное, которое занято только теннисом и у которого нет времени для других людей. Неужели теннисные болельщики не знают, как все обстоит на самом деле «за кулисами»? О том, что ты всегда готов раздать автографы после тренировки, в то время как Роджер Федерер перестал делать это несколько лет назад? Что ты больше предан спорту, чем твой извечный соперник?
Из надежного источника мы знаем, что ты проплакал в такси всю дорогу от отеля до аэропорта. Это говорит о том, насколько поражение и поведение публики ранило тебя. Это также говорит о том, насколько мужественно ты себя вел в первые часы после поражения. Роджер Федерер тоже плачет, но только перед телекамерами.
За это и за многое другое, за то, что ничего не написали сразу, за то, что выли вместе с волками в лесу, я прошу: прости, прости, прости. Может быть, некоторые теннисные болельщики изменят свое мнение о себе. Может быть, может быть, может быть.
Bart Lagae Париж, в темном подвальчике под Кортом Филлипа Шатрие, 3 июня 2009 г.
Posted: 04.06.09 23:01. Post subject: К написанному выше х..
К написанному выше хочу добавить, что Росана Ромеро в своем блоге описала поведение публики после матча. У меня даже рука не поднимается написать об этом. Я не могу. Я очень надеюсь, что Рафа этого не видел и не слышал.
Posted: 04.06.09 23:32. Post subject: Еще Росана написала ..
Еще Росана написала о том инциденте, когда Рафа, уходя с корта, отмахнулся от журналиста, который должен был брать интервью. Французское телевидение со сладострастием многократно показывало этот эпизод в замедленном режиме. Оказывается, Рафе сказали, что интервью у него брать не будут. Он и отмахнулся: вам не надо, мне - тем более.
Posted: 04.06.09 23:57. Post subject: ольга Сегодня во в..
ольга
Сегодня во время женских полуфиналов Дмитриева обмолвилась, что вроде как журналист, который должен был брать интервью после матча Надаля и Содерлинга, отстранен от работы после инцидента с Рафой. На самом деле, он должен был говорить с ним лишь после того, как Содерлинг сделает подпись на камеру, но был слишком шокирован поражением Надаля и поспешил узнать, что же произошло. А Рафа к тому же к интервью был не готов.
Posted: 05.06.09 00:01. Post subject: Mela На РГ уже не п..
Mela На РГ уже не первый человек отстранен от работы после "инцидента" с Рафой. Ничего, восстановят. Дмитриевой не верю. Я думаю, что Росана лучше знает, что там произошло, она получает информацию из превых рук, в отличие от Дмитриевой, которая собирает сплетни на каждом углу.
Posted: 05.06.09 00:06. Post subject: ольга Насчет того,..
ольга
Насчет того, что восстановят, сомневаться не приходится. Во Франции якобы уже целый бум по поводу того, что лучше журналиста нет (ну это продолжение из сплетен Дмитриевой. Я сама, кстати, ее почти никогда не слушаю, разве что уж совсем нет иного выбора - а сегодня, к сожалению, как раз был такой случай)
А вообще, ну ее, эту Дмитриеву. Я тебе другое хочу сказать: огромное спасибо за переводы
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Posted: 05.06.09 03:56. Post subject: ITF honour Navratilo..
ITF honour Navratilova, Nadal and Jankovic
The tennis family gathered last night for the ITF World Champions Dinner, held at the Pavillon d’Armenonville in Paris.
As well as celebrating the achievements of the 2008 ITF World Champions, the ITF Board of Directors presented its highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award, to tennis legend Martina Navratilova. Former British Davis Cup player and current television broadcaster Andrew Castle hosted the evening with ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti presenting the awards, trophies designed by internationally-recognised sculptor Laurence Broderick, to the World Champions.
This year’s recipients were Singles Champions Rafael Nadal (ESP) and Jelena Jankovic (SRB). Due to the fact that they’d lost in the French Open on Sunday and Monday (respectively), they sent their apologies via video acceptance. Jose Luis Escanuela (President of the RFET) accepted Nadal’s award on stage, and Serbian Tennis Federation President, Slobodan Zivojinovic, proudly received Jankovic’s trophy and said a few words about Serbia’s success in the sport.
Other winners collecting their trophies on the night were Doubles Champions Daniel Nestor (CAN) and Nenad Zimonjic (SRB), and Cara Black (ZIM) and Liezel Huber (USA); Junior Champions Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) and Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA); and Wheelchair Champions Shingo Kunieda (JPN) and Esther Vergeer (NED), who received the trophy for a record ninth year. There was also a presentation to Women’s tennis pioneer Peachy Kellmeyer , who was honoured with the ITF/ITHF Golden Achievement Award on stage.
After being awarded the Philippe Chatrier Award, Martina Navratilova thanked her parents and tennis for giving her such a fulfilling life and career and singled out former Czech Grand Slam champion Jan Kodes, who was present at the dinner, as a childhood inspiration. Navratilova, whose love for tennis led to a 33-year career, paved the way for future generations of her sport, many of whom she was playing against when she finally retired in 2006 at the age of 49.
Following her defection to the United States as an 18-year-old, the Prague-born player brought a new level of athleticism to the women’s game to become the most dominant player in her sport. In particular her rivalry with Chris Evert from the mid 1970s to late 1980s was legendary, and spurred her on to greater success. Navratilova went on to win 167 singles, 177 doubles and 10 mixed doubles titles in her career, an open era record for both singles and doubles. Instantly recognisable and as well known off the court as on it, Navratilova’s influence extends to the many charities that she supports.
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Posted: 05.06.09 09:55. Post subject: ольга пишет: Францу..
ольга пишет:
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Французское телевидение со сладострастием многократно показывало этот эпизод в замедленном режиме. Оказывается, Рафе сказали, что интервью у него брать не будут.
вот сволочи ольга пишет:
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На РГ уже не первый человек отстранен от работы после "инцидента" с Рафой. Ничего, восстановят.
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Posted: 05.06.09 14:46. Post subject: После прочитанных ст..
После прочитанных статей стало очень грустно. Особенно статья с французской публикой..Пусть это будет на их совести, которой у них, к сожалению нет. Как красиво написано - корт как храм истории. Как можно так неуважать человека? Я этого не понимаю. Просто очень обидно, что это не может не ранить Рафу, не задеть его. Обидно и больно.
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Posted: 05.06.09 16:08. Post subject: RAFA WILL NOT PLAY T..
RAFA WILL NOT PLAY THE AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS AT QUEEN'S
Rafa's quote: "I am very disappointed to not be able to come this year to Queen's, defend the title I won last year and enjoy playing there in front of that very knowledgeable crowds. To play in London has always been special for me, to play at the Queen's Club an honour and the fans in the UK are among the best I have ever seen, always supporting me since the first time I played there.
I have been having some problems in the past months with my knees, that's no secret, that did not allow me to compete at 100% always.
I need to work with my team to recover well, work on my physical condition to be at my top form and get ready for the grass to play at Wimbledon. I hope I can be ready to compete by then.
I am really sorry and I hope that the people at the Club will still want me to come next year.
Posted: 05.06.09 16:52. Post subject: Слова Рафы: that..
Слова Рафы:
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that's no secret, that did not allow me to compete at 100% always.
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work on my physical condition to be at my top form and get ready for the grass to play at Wimbledon. I hope I can be ready to compete by then.
Ната, большое спасибо, у меня тепло разлилось в моей душе. Неужели сыграл здравый смысл, мудрость и Рафа отказался от Квинса? И кстати он сам признался, что не был укомплектован, готов на 100% (меются ввиду физические и ментальные кондиции) к РГ. Эти слова Рафы и признание Тони Собкину о лишнем Мадриде говорят о том, что они допустили серьезную ошибку при подготовке к РГ. Так что кто-то из них, а может и оба заслужили рэмня от АмоРР. Теперь у Рафы появились три недели отдыха между последним матчем на РГ и Уимом. Я очень надеюсь, что физически и ментально Рафа восстановится, сомневаюсь, что на все 100%, но хотя бы близко к своему нормальному уровню. Почему сомневаюсь? - Когда Рафа хорошо вымотан и когда его форма давала спад, а это бывает каждый год после ЮС Опен, Рафа в раздрае продолжает находиться длительное время. Так что идеальной формы на Уиме я врядли жду.
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Posted: 05.06.09 19:37. Post subject: Фрагмент блиц-интерв..
Фрагмент блиц-интервью Евгения Кафельникова
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Евгений Кафельников: «Самым приятным игроком в туре считаю Надаля» Экс-первая ракетка мира, обладатель титула «Ролан Гаррос» 1996 года, россиянин Евгений Кафельников ответил на вопросы блиц-опроса. ... - Самый приятный игрок в туре? - Не все со мной согласятся, но я голосую за Надаля. Он всегда доступен для прессы и поклонников. Пример для подражания.
Posted: 06.06.09 16:08. Post subject: Янита пишет: После ..
Янита пишет:
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После прочитанных статей стало очень грустно. Особенно статья с французской публикой..Пусть это будет на их совести, которой у них, к сожалению нет.
Это даже не публика - это толпа. Меня всегда забавляло, что теннисисты часто называют публику "crowd". Вот к этому "элитному" французскому быдлу слово "толпа" подходит очень хорошо. А еще лучше - стадо.
Posted: 06.06.09 16:13. Post subject: Прочитала, и как буд..
Прочитала, и как будто на меня ушат холодной воды вылили. Очередной.
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Роджер Федерер: «В воскресенье я не буду скучать по Рафе»
Знаете, в воскресенье я не буду скучать по Рафе. Может быть, вы будете скучать, но не я. Мы играли с ним 20 раз, поэтому приятно сыграть с кем-то другим. Я еще несколько раз сыграю с Надалем в будущем, это нормально. Я рад сыграть с кем-то другим», – приводит слова теннисиста официальный сайт «Ролан Гаррос».
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Posted: 06.06.09 23:45. Post subject: Травма колена может ..
Травма колена может помешать Надалю сыграть на Уимблдоне
Первая ракетка мирового рейтинга испанец Рафаэль Надаль может отказаться от участия в Уимблдоне из-за травмы колена, сообщает Reuters.
"Посмотрим, что будет с Рафаэлем в понедельник-вторник, оценим его состояние. Мы отправимся в Барселону для того, чтобы провести детальный медицинский осмотр. Безусловно, мой подопечный намерен принять участие в турнире "Большого шлема", но его состояние пока что вызывает у медиков некоторые опасения", — заявил наставник и дядя испанца Тони Надаль.
Напомним, что Надаль является действующим победителем турнира "Большого шлема" в Лондоне.
7 июня 2009 года, воскресенье. 0:09 Источник: "Чемпионат.ру" Что это было? Надеюсь кто то из истосточников все-же ошибся...
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Posted: 07.06.09 00:39. Post subject: всё "веселее и в..
всё "веселее и веселее", что касется Роджера, то он просто понял, что человека, который мешал ему выиграть РГ теперь нет на турнире и он уже спит и видит кубок в своих руках, конечно не ожидала таких слов от него, но по моему мнению это просто алчность, знаете, трон свободен, а всем хотят присесть, но король-то ещё вернётся а по поводу колена, так вообще ошарашена, хоть бы у Рафы не началась серия неудач из-за травмы, надеюсь, что всё будет хорошо. С Машей я уже прошла каково это, терять первое место в рейтинге из-за травмы, а с Рафой этого не повторится!!! Желаю ему здоровья и железных нервов. Я бы на его место давно плюнула на всех и жила и играла в своё удовольствие, а наш Рафа думает не только о себе, но и о всех остальных, о своих болельщиках, о персонале, о всех, кто рядом. И те, кто заслуживают этого, те об этом знают. А остальные пусть думают, что хотят!!!
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Posted: 07.06.09 00:51. Post subject: По поводу Роджера я ..
По поводу Роджера я не удивилась как-то, вообще мне кажется, этим словам можно придать немного разный смысл. Конечно, Родж не святой и вполне себе осознает выгодность своего положения финалиста РГ, которому не придется играть с Рафой. Это нормально, любой на его месте думал бы об этом. Но прозвучало очень неприятно, как-то некорректно, что ли, некрасиво, в общем. Этими словами он себя как бы принизил, мне кажется, короче, лучше бы жевал. Ну и хрен с ним. Хотела за него в финале поболеть, тем более, что реально заслужил он уже давно свой РГ, да и Мирку беременную порадовать хорошо бы, а теперь даже не знаю... Ни за кого болеть не буду и так мне не так, и так не этак. Мде.
Ну это все такая ерунда, на самом деле. Вот колени Рафины больше тревожат...(((
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Posted: 07.06.09 01:30. Post subject: Rafael Nadal: Happy ..
Rafael Nadal: Happy Birthday, Even A Fed Fan Misses You At The French Open Rohiny Iyer
Rafa, this French Open won't be the same without you! Like everyone else, I too wondered who would end your run at the French Open. It's only natural. All good runs of dominance must sadly come to an end. I'm sure Rafa could commiserate with Roger Federer, knowing how it now feels when an incredible streak ends. First, it was Federer winning Wimbledon five times in a row—a streak broken by Rafa in a well-deserved first win at Wimbledon last summer. Now Rafa's streak at the French Open has been broken by Robin Soderling. If there's one truth that exists in the game of tennis—it's that anyone can be beaten on the day. A top player can be vulnerable if they encounter a red hot player who has nothing to lose. Roger said it best in his press conference that the media hype kicks in and suggests that first Roger himself and then Rafa were unbeatable. Roger said they're human beings and when you're at the top, everyone is gunning for you. If the player catches you on a day when you're vulnerable, you can get beat. Surprisingly, Rafa's defeat at Roland Garros came at the hands of a pro with whom he has a history. At Wimbledon two years ago, Soderling infamously mimicked Rafa's service motion preparation. It was less than Djokovic's playful imitation of his fellow pros' "tics" on the court and bordered on a malicious mocking of Rafa's serve preparation routine. The fact that Rafa was taken out by Soderling, a player who had never beaten him in three previous tries, echoes Federer's thoughts. Sometimes it's easy to take out a top player who's not playing his best on the day. It would be too predictable to cast Soderling in the role of spoiler, but in light of his history with Rafa, this role will do until I think of another way to cast his run in this year's French Open. It will indeed be interesting to see how far he will go in the tournament. While I am unabashedly a Roger fan, but I can't help but appreciate the work ethic Rafa brings to the game of tennis. I had nightmares that the end of Roger's era of dominance at Wimbledon would come at the hands of a player who would be a mere footnote of history at Wimbledon. The fact that Rafa, after three times in the final, could finally win the title he most coveted, was acceptable to this Roger fan. For four years, Rafa would savor a sweet birthday with a run to the title in Paris. Rafa jokingly said he had a date with his swimming pool at his house after his loss in Paris. For four years, Rafa would celebrate with an exuberant "swim" in the red clay of Roland Garros. He won't do that this year. A new champion will take the title in Paris this year. Wherever you are Rafa, today is your birthday! Roger promised in his press conference when asked about your loss that you would come back strong. Come back strong, Rafa! We'll miss you as champion in Paris. Wherever you are today, go party! It's your birthday! See you at Wimbledon.
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Posted: 07.06.09 12:55. Post subject: A Day of rest: Not f..
A Day of rest: Not for Rafa
June 4, 2009 · Nima Naderi
Traditionally the second Thursday at the French Open is a day of rest for the men. A day in which reaching the semi-finals can be appreciated; with the practice courts littered with tee-shirts instead of coloured shirts, as well a soccer trick to two.
But this year, for obvious reasons, a different feeling will commence into the final weekend. An eerie but hollow feeling if you will, has cast its doubt over the beautiful skyline of Paris. The Tour Eiffel is still standing strong (rusted and scorn with years of experience); and the lovely Louvre, elegant as always maintains its usual host of Mona Lisa seekers. But back on the courts at the grounds of Roland Garros, the perennial grunting and biceps of a popular champion are missing — where is Rafa?
You better believe that a few people today (who are not avid tennis fans of course), inquired into the exact whereabouts of Nadal’s practice session? Excusez-moi monsieur où est le Rafa? The answer translated back in English probably went something like this: you are fresh out of luck! (With a french accent of course).
For the first time in four dynasty driven seasons, the King (former if you wish) of clay will not be around the final weekend of his most dominant grand slam.
Instead, a few new faces will be shining (as part of that eerie hollowed feeling I was talking about), with the likes of del Potro, Gonzalez and yes Robin Sodering all making there maiden French open, final fours. Don’t worry I didn’t forget Federer.
With an early hotel check out, and a plane straight back to the coastal oasis known as Mallorca, you would like to think that Rafa could finally escape into chill mode, and not worry about the grind of an already fatiguing season? Um no.
Nadal did make reference to looking forward to getting back to his pool for a days, to reflect and heal his battered and bruised body (as well as ego). But come on now, this is Rafa we’re talking about everyone — cheer up — he’s back on court. With a rare few days of catching some Spanish sun, did you really think this motivated spring board was going to sit around and see how fast his custom made Kai goes — did ya?
Not that we expect the guy to work any harder or anything? I mean let’s give the guy a break. He literally rocked France for four years; had a stellar clay season, and is still the number one hombre on the planet. Let’s also not forget we have a different Rafa on our hands now, with the young champion turning 23 yesterday.
A difference in age will undoubtedly record much of the same results. How did that saying go again, the more things change the more they say the same…or wait was it, it’s a difference of degree rather than kind? Since I learned the latter of the two statements in University (which cost me a pretty penny I may add), I’ll be more inclined to go with that one.
If anything, a difference in age will allow Rafa to quickly get over being Solderling-ed, last Sunday in France. (With age comes experience right)? The six-time slam champ can now look forward (past the Tour Eiffel or course) to the constant and ever present desire to once again improve.
Nadal in fact has been on court the past few days; getting his new kicks from Nike, and working out at one of the only grass courts in Mallorca. Rafa is scheduled to arrive in London on Saturday to begin preparation for his defense of Queens Club; which will culminate with his efforts at Wimbledon in three weeks time.
With a heavy duty daily plyometric routine, and one handed push-ups no less — Nadal has been keeping sharp. He has also kept in touch with his mentor (the first man from Mallorca, Carlos Moya) for wisdom — and need not worry, plenty of guys to hit with.
Sometimes the present, allows us to appreciate the past. Throughout the four seasons of Nadal’s success on clay, my fondest memories of him have always been pictures of his training sessions on grass; the day after the French final. To me, this effort and dedication epitomizes the greatness of Rafa. He is as blue-coloured of a tennis player that has ever played–not the mention one of the best.
His desire to constantly improve has allowed him to stay ahead of the field — improvement that will see him stay there. You can bet that Nadal’s mentality is already fully entwined in the lush lawns of England; a mentality which is working overtime to ensure a repeat on center court.
That exact mental fortitude and unbridled commitment to success is what draws the tennis world to the passion of the Spaniard. It is that same passion which provoked that fan today, who brushed aside the notion that Nadal not being around– to continue to search. The search continues.
Although we did said au revoir to Rafa this week (in what seemed like an awfully long time), his upcoming trip to London will surely bring forth many electrifying moments for the English and world wide fan.
No day of rest, is simply no joke, when speaking of the current world number one. And as Rafa himself suggested when asked to evaluate his level of play after his loss — his black and white sentiments, which are always right to the point, went something like this: “So when one player bad, must lose. That’s what happened today. I have to accept with the same calm when I win than when I lose. After four years I lose here, and the season continue.”
Exactly! The season continues, and with the hardest working man in tennis ready to begin his on slot on pristine courts of the All England Club, I urge everyone of you out there to enjoy the four chaps playing in the semi-finals in Paris. There will be great tennis no doubt– but come Wimbledon — it is all but certain that one of the final-four spots will be taken by an all too familiar, and deserving face.
Posted: 07.06.09 13:21. Post subject: Victorsss пишет: Чт..
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Что это было? Надеюсь кто то из истосточников все-же ошибся...
Все так и есть, как там написано. Колени беспокоят Рафу с турнира в Майами (то лучше, то хуже). Тони не настроен оптимистично в отношении Уимблдона. Он сказал, что последнее слово будет за врачами во вторник. Так что нам остается только ждать и быть готовыми к любому решению.
Еще испанская пресса пишет, что родители Рафы приняли решение о разводе после того, как уже год не живут вместе. Нашли, как говорится, время. Для Рафы это наверняка большая драма, он очень домашний, он любит свою семью, которая для него всегда была настоящей крепостью, тылом, опорой во всем. Теперь эта крепость рушится. А тут еще проблемы с коленями. Рафе остается пожелать стойкости и мужества. Он сильный человек, я верю что он все преодолеет.
Posted: 07.06.09 13:31. Post subject: ольга пишет: Это да..
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Это даже не публика - это толпа. Меня всегда забавляло, что теннисисты часто называют публику "crowd". Вот к этому "элитному" французскому быдлу слово "толпа" подходит очень хорошо. А еще лучше - стадо.
Толпа еще ладно, но называть публику БЫДЛОМ, пусть даже элитным...
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Posted: 07.06.09 13:39. Post subject: ольга пишет: то род..
ольга пишет:
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то родители Рафы приняли решение о разводе после того, как уже год не живут вместе
Просто не вериться, всегда казалось, что Рафина семья - образец для подражания. Как говорится, проблема не приходит одна, в какое-то время все скатывается в ком. Ну очень хочется верить, что развода не будет. Рафе здоровья! Надеюсь, Чиска его очень сильно поддерживает. Пора уже и свою семью создавать..
Posted: 07.06.09 14:06. Post subject: Час от часу не легче..
Час от часу не легче! никогда не замечала никакого разладу между родителями его! и вот приплыли так сказать.. как Ольга сказала, лучшего времени не могли придумать.. бедный Рафка.. сколько же всего в один миг на него обрушилось! Держись, родной! Мы все мыслями с тобой!
Posted: 07.06.09 15:20. Post subject: ольга пишет: Еще ис..
ольга пишет:
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Еще испанская пресса пишет, что родители Рафы приняли решение о разводе после того, как уже год не живут вместе. Нашли, как говорится, время. Для Рафы это наверняка большая драма, он очень домашний, он любит свою семью, которая для него всегда была настоящей крепостью, тылом, опорой во всем.
значит все это не домыслы? . Конечно, Рафа не 12-летний ребенок, для психики которого все эти разводы особенно катострофичны, но все же...
Что ж.., остается надеяться, что все, что сейчас происходит с Рафой сделает его еще более сильным и незаурядным.. А вообще в него как-то верится
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Posted: 07.06.09 16:49. Post subject: Ну вот...всё-таки пр..
Ну вот...всё-таки проблемы в семье... нечего сказать...держись, Рафа! Меня всё это наводит на мысль, что с коленями всё в порядке (очень надеюсь на это), а Рафа и Тони просто решили взять тайм-аут...
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Posted: 07.06.09 17:03. Post subject: Dinusik Меня всё эт..
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Меня всё это наводит на мысль, что с коленями всё в порядке (очень надеюсь на это), а Рафа и Тони просто решили взять тайм-аут...
...А заодно сделать рекламу доктору Которро Не думаю, что Надали стали бы сочинять такие подробности, как боль на тренировке и слова Рафы, что ему больно играть. Похоже, колени сейчас в самом деле требуют внимания.
Posted: 07.06.09 17:16. Post subject: Рафу по-человечески ..
Рафу по-человечески очень жаль. В прошлом году и Ноля колбасило из-за родителей. А у Рафы еще и проблемы со здоровьем в добавок. Фиг с родителями пусть сами разбираются, а ему скорейшего выздоровления.
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Posted: 07.06.09 19:48. Post subject: Весь день переварива..
Весь день переваривала новость про развод родителей... ...и все равно не знаю что сказать... Конечно, это не самое страшное в жизни. Главное, что все здоровы. (какие мысли только не лезли в голову из-за неведения...) Но для Рафы семья это воздух, которым он дышит, это счастье... И как теперь понятно все, что творилось с ним в последние месяцы. Какой теннис мог быть в голове? Какая спортивная злость, когда вокруг рушится его мир... Как же мне его жаль... Его и Марибэль, конечно. Сейчас они как никто другой понимают друг друга. ...но что поделаешь?.. Мы так устроены, что привыкаем почти ко всему. Ничего кроме времени Рафе, скорее всего, не поможет. Но он обязательно со всем справится, иначе и быть не может! Главное, береги здоровье и коленки, Рафа.
Posted: 07.06.09 20:29. Post subject: Мои ощущения по ситу..
Мои ощущения по ситуации:
Упоминания о разводе - это скорее желание девушек с vb.com докопаться-таки до тех самых "личных" причин, о которых Рафа вскользь упоминал. Родители якобы не живут вместе уже год; как бы то ни было, развод в таких случаях часто превращается в формальность. Это неприятно, очень несвоевременно, но как бы ни был Рафа привязан к семье, для него это вряд ли неожиданность или трагедия, способная столь основательно подорвать игру. Он взрослый парень и большой профессионал, поэтому в версию развода как той самой "личной" причины мне не верится.
Что касается колен... Если проблемы обострились на РГ, но о них попросту молчали, то объяснение дяди еще как-то можно понять. Если проблемы обострились гораздо раньше - то это полнейшее отсутствие логики, здравого смысла и вообще за гранью понимания. Ну не могли они тогда играть все четыре грунта до РГ, просто не могли! Никто не стал бы экспериментировать с этим, ни Рафа, ни команда. О приоритетности турниров они знают лучше всех нас. Можно рассуждать об огромной ошибке, о переоценке возможностей, даже о "жадности", как некоторые пишут, если допускать, что с Рафой работает команда полулюбителей, действующая методом проб и ошибок. Но ведь все мы знаем, что это не так.
Да, Рафе необходим тайм-аут, моральное и физическое восстановление, лечение и профилактика накопившихся проблем с ногами. В этом свете отказ от Квинса позитивен. Но когда прозвучало предположительное про Уим - я очень напряглась. Понимаю и считаю оправданным, что Надали попросту не говорят правды, или всей правды. Остается это принять и уважать.
Рафе желаю все преодолеть. Если сейчас не до тенниса - пусть, все это поймут, сколько бы времени для решения проблем не потребовалось. Здоровье и моральное состояние - главнее всего остального.
Posted: 07.06.09 20:35. Post subject: Veruca_Salt Во все ..
Veruca_Salt Во всем с тобой согласна...Если родители не живут вместе уже год, то ничего удивительного в разводе для Рафы нет, это было только делом времени...А насчет Уима: если не будет готов как следует, то лучше не играть вообще...Черт с ней, с защитой титула, черт с ним, с первым местом...Надо восстанавливаться к US Open, и все силы кинуть туда, если получится, конечно...
Posted: 07.06.09 20:44. Post subject: из-за Роджа и летней..
из-за Роджа и летней сессии некогда было следить за тем, что творится у Рафы, а тут такое... сочувствую Рафе - уж кто-кто, а он уж точно не заслужил такого отношения к себе от ... "зрителей". Тот воскресный матч это позор для тенниса - так освистывать Чемпиона и человека, столь трогательно относящегося к болельщикам - нет слов... очень печально всё это. а тут ещё колени и семья - не дай Бог никому такого, надеюсь, что ситуация хоть как-то нормализуется. Тони и вся остальная родня не оставит Рафу в трудную минуту, как и его настоящие болельщики. Я начал сопереживать Рафе, когда в сердце уже был другой теннисист, мечтой которого была победа на грунтовом ТБШ - она наконец исполнилась. Но Рафы очень не хватает, такой искренности в нашем мире почти уже нет В общем - выздоравливай, Рафик. Ты ещё вернёшься и наведёшь шороху в Туре! А если абстрагироваться от всяких там титулов, то главную битву в жизни ты уже выиграл - ты Человек. Оставайся им, и ещё раз здоровья! ЗЫ: то заявление Роджа, что он рад, что в финале его ждёт не Рафа - не очень приятно конечно, но он сказал то, что думает. Это была не шаблонная фраза, а горькая правда лучше сладкой лжи. Родж не солгал, а обстоятельства такие, что он не мог исполнить свою мечту и показать свою игру, если бы в финале был Рафа. Его можно понять - жуткий психологический прессинг большого спорта это не шутки. Жизнь это очень сложная штука, а уж жизнь публичная - намного сложнее... давайте не будем судить людей, а будем проявлять иные чувства - участие, сочувствие, радость за наших любимцев. много мыслей родились из-за этих всех новостей... но пока до конца оформить их не получается. Извините, что много букв, но не мог не выговориться.
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Posted: 07.06.09 20:52. Post subject: Год не жили вместе? ..
Год не жили вместе? То есть Рафа выиграл Уим, ОИ, стал первой ракеткой уже тогда, когда родители разъехались???
ПС. Признаюсь честно, что я еще в пятницу просматривала Интернет на предмет возможного развода родителей. Ничего конкретного не нашла, но узнала, что раньше в Испании были строгие правила, согласно которым супругам необходимо было пару лет прожить раздельно, чтобы потом только развестись. Сейчас такого нет, развод можно оформить в течение нескольких месяцев. Как-то не все сходится в этой истории...
Posted: 07.06.09 21:01. Post subject: Да, развод родителей..
Да, развод родителей - не самая страшная трагедия в жизни, бывают вещи и похуже. И, к сожалению, каждому человеку приходится переживать очень тяжелые времена. От этого не избавлены ни великие чемпионы, ни простые смертные. Для Рафы развод родителей - это тяжелый удар. Он очень сильно привязан к семье, он даже в каком-то смысле инфантилен в этом вопросе. Родители всегда держали его рядом с собой, не отпускали учиться в теннисные академии - чтобы был рядом с родными, любящими людьми, под их присмотром. Его очень опекали, охраняли, любили, баловали. Едва заканчивался турнир, он мчался домой, к семье, потому что очень тосковал. И вот теперь всё это "аукнулось" и ударило по нему. Сколько раз мы читали в прессе, что семья - это основа душевного благополучия Рафы, источник его сил и энергии. А теперь как будто почва уходит из-под ног. А как много для него всегда значил отец! Это он забросил все свои дела и всего себя посвятил Рафе, когда его карьера оказалась под угрозой после травмы 2005 г. Неспроста, победив на РГ-2006, Рафа обнял отца на трибуне и сказал: "Спасибо, папа!", и они оба рыдали в объятиях друг друга, потому что Рафа не верил, что сможет когда-либо еще выиграть ТБШ. Не зря именно ту победу он называет самой главной в своей жизни. Мы не знаем никаких подробностей, не знаем, кто явился инициатором развода, кто прав, кто виноват, но Рафу безумно жаль. И Марибель, конечно. Наверное, я неправа, так нельзя рассуждать, но меня не покидает чувство, что Рафу предали самые родные люди. Ради ТАКОГО сына можно было бы как-то себя сдержать и сохранить семью. Впрочем, может быть, это уже было невозможно сделать...
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Пора уже и свою семью создавать..
Я тоже об этом подумала. Но уж очень он еще молод. Семья - это огромная ответственность, к которой человек должен быть готов. Очень бы не хотелось, чтобы Рафа принимал какие-то поспешные решения под влянием момента.
Posted: 07.06.09 21:12. Post subject: lybitel Спасибо теб..
lybitel Спасибо тебе сердечное за твои "много букв" Ты очень душевный и добрый человек. Еще раз спасибо. И с великой победой твоего любимца! Он как никто другой заслужил этот титул, Рафа был абсолютно прав. Кстати, очевидцы рассказывают, что на РГ в финале было много испанских флагов, на которых было написано Federer, и испанцы кричали ему VAMOS!
Posted: 07.06.09 21:26. Post subject: lybitel Спасибо, о..
lybitel
Спасибо, очень приятно было прочитать Ваш пост
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Год не жили вместе?
Все это лишь слухи. По поводу раздельной жизни и официального развода - так это сплошь и рядом и здесь, и там. Люди расходятся, а развод оформляют позже, а некоторые даже тогда, когда появляется необходимость (желание узаконить новые отношения, например). Не знаю, как здесь, а там наверняка это еще и куча времени "по процедуре": нанять юристов, документооборот, длительный раздел имущества... Впрочем, это уже оффтоп. Так что ничего особенно странного я не вижу
Posted: 07.06.09 21:30. Post subject: Veruca_Salt пишет: ..
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Упоминания о разводе - это скорее желание девушек с vb.com докопаться-таки до тех самых "личных" причин, о которых Рафа вскользь упоминал. Родители якобы не живут вместе уже год; как бы то ни было, развод в таких случаях часто превращается в формальность. Это неприятно, очень несвоевременно, но как бы ни был Рафа привязан к семье, для него это вряд ли неожиданность или трагедия, способная столь основательно подорвать игру. Он взрослый парень и большой профессионал, поэтому в версию развода как той самой "личной" причины мне не верится.
Никто там не докапывался, это в испанском разделе форума вычитали из газет. На VB этот вопрос широко не обсуждается из соображений деликатности, все-таки этот форум читают во всем мире. Да, родители в размолвке уже давно, но, может быть, Рафа надеялся, что все будет хорошо, а теперь принято окончательное решение. Мы же ничего толком не знаем. К тому же Рафа уже давно стал "другим". Мы не знаем, что творится в его душе, но он уже не тот счастливый и радостный мальчик, которым мы привыкли его видеть, даже несмотря на победы. После АО он сказал, что чувствет опустошение, что он чувствует себя очень одиноким. Это неспроста. Может быть, он и играет много, потому что предпочитает быть на турнирах, а не дома. Что касается травмы, в Мадриде после обследования сказали, что у него отек кости (edema of the bone), что это не страшно, но очень болезненно. В любом случае, нам надо дождаться вторника, когда будут известны результаты обследования.
Posted: 07.06.09 21:41. Post subject: ольга пишет: Мы же ..
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Мы же ничего толком не знаем.
В том-то и дело. Может быть, мне следовало добавить к своему посту, что деталей никто не знает, а они могут быть определяющими. Мое мнение о реакции на развод - всего лишь мнение о некой усредненной ситуации.
В общих чертах там говорится, что родители Рафы уже (на счет года не говорится) не живут под одной крышей. Что об этом давно судачат улицы Манакора и процесс развода уже начался. Автор статьи встретил Ксиску, она сплетен не подтвердила, но и не опровергла.
...только бы журналистам хватило такта не расспрашивать Рафу на предмет отношений родителей! Рафа, держись!!!
Nothing can distract Rafael Nadal from his daily work. He is in no hurry to come back and neither does he want to precipitate his return. He has pulled out of the Cincinnati Masters 1000 because he is not at full fitness. He is working a great deal with the necessary amount of optimism and cheerfulness in order to return to playing at the level that led him to be the best player of 2012 up until Wimbledon. A month has gone by since his last match against Lukas Rosol and his main concern is getting back the best of sensations that led him to make himself eternal at Roland Garros and play at one of the highest levels of his career.
The player from Manacor is in good spirits despite how difficult it must be for a competitor like him to be parted from what he likes most because of physical problems. "Mentally, I'm fine, the problem is that I was having a very good year for as long as I managed to play. After that it hasn't gone as I would have liked and physically we're not quite there yet. We've been improving over the last few weeks but not sufficiently," he explains at the end of a practice session in Manacor.
Tour The North American hardcourt swing started off with the Mallorcan withdrawing from the Masters 1000 in Toronto and has continued with him pulling out of Cincinnati, so that his next tournament is the US Open, although the Balearic player only focuses on what he does each day. "I'm not thinking about the US Open, I'm thinking about recovering well and competing well, like in the first half of the year. I'm pleased with the way I was playing and how everything went, but my knee hasn't responded since Roland Garros," the world number three comments.
Physique He has it clear that it will not be his eagerness that precipitates his return, but rather that it will be determined by how he feels and by his knees. "I'm in no hurry to play, I'm in a hurry to be well. You want to be well to play because, in the end, if you aren't, you suffer continuously. It's good to suffer, but suffering when you have no chance is not the thing to do. Playing in pain is what happened at Wimbledon and what we're trying to avoid at the moment. My idea is to play when I'm well. I'll play when I'm well," Nadal sums up. "I'd begin playing tomorrow, but I don't feel prepared to start to compete at a certain level. I won't play until my knees are able to allow me to play for two and a half or three hours at the intensity I want," he adds.
Faithful to his mentality of maintaining the middle ground both in victory and defeat, Rafael Nadal considers it is not a question of either sending a tranquillizing message or an alarming one to the fans who await his return to competition. "Neither of the two," he responds. "What's really tranquillizing is that I was the best player on the tour for what had gone of the year both in points and because I was number one in the Race. I was the player who was doing best, but I wasn't able to continue in that line. I care about recovering well so I can end the season with a good sensation," he argues.
He also adds: "I don't think we should dramatize things. I won Roland Garros a month and a half ago and you have to accept that this - being out because of physical problems - is part of sport. The way things are in the world, it's not the time for complaining and what I try to do is work with optimism and cheerfulness in order to recover as soon as possible."
His next competitiom on the calendar will be the US Open in New York, but in the competitive sphere his general aim is "to try to have a good ending to the year, because it'll be a good year, whatever happens, so what is really important is to recover in order to have the same intensity and rhythm of play I had before, which was of the best in my career."
Ranking The possibility of the brilliant Olympic champion, Andy Murray, relegating him to the fourth place in the world ranking because of his results does not upset the Mallorcan tennis player. "I could be at No.4 or No.24 if I take longer in returning. There's a point in your career when the ranking is not so important. You can be really looking forward to being number one like this year, because I was in a good position and yes I was keen to do it, but after eight years without moving from the top two places... Another week being number three or number four doesn't give me more or less or make me happier or less happy. Being happy competing is what gives me something and I have to be recovered to do that," he reasons.
Nadal admits it was a difficult decision to give up the chance of taking part in the London Olympics where he was to have been the Spanish team's flag bearer in the opening ceremony, although he also admits it would have been "foolishness" to force his return. There is no solace for the possibility of having to spend more time on the Island, though spending more time with his own people makes him happy. "Obviously it wasn't the year for spending more time in Mallorca with the Olympics taking place. It doesn't make up for it, but I'm happy to be with my family and friends," he comments.
It should be remembered that the Mallorcan played Wimbledon with problems in his knees, and that he has also had to have his usual treatment of plasma enriched infiltrations with Doctor Sanchez in Vitoria. The pain has not remitted in time and has put paid to his participation in the most recent events on the calendar.
Posted: 11.08.12 16:17. Post subject: The Sun Also Rises ..
The Sun Also Rises
Arienna Lee
The US Open begins in less than three weeks; the Games of the something-or-other Olympiad are still going strong; Donald Young is still not; Andy Murray might or might not get married during his lifetime; and the parade of a somewhat important tennis tournament is being thoroughly doused in Canada as yesterday’s rain fell like cats and dogs, and players dropped like flies. Official pre-tournament, post-olympian-feat withdrawals from the Masters-level Rogers Cup include: Nadal, Federer, Ferrer, Roddick, Verdasco, and Gael Monfils. Unofficial, or late, withdrawals included del Potro and Tsonga (via losing), and Murray (because they let him eat too much cake). On the women’s side, Montreal is without gold, silver and bronze Olympic medalists, Williams, Sharapova and Azarenka. Lisicki, Penetta, Ivanovic, Jankovic, Cibulkova, and Stosur have already been upset, while Li Na, Petra Kvitova have not—yet. Also, in relevant news, Milos Raonic has become the new Canadian Man of Mystery. So there is that.
I will be back over the weekend with a report on the tennis at Rogers Cup, if there is anyone left playing, but for now, I’m going to write about the looming presence of an increasingly long absence. Yesterday, Rafael Nadal officially withdrew from Cincinnati, citing a lack of readiness in his stricken knees. Given that he has already missed the Olympics, where he was to be Spain’s flag bearer, and one US Open Series 1000 tournament, this latest news gives rise to the question of whether or not Rafa will play at the US Open at all, and if he does, whether or not he will be able to play at all well. My keen blogger’s intuition tells me that, while this news might not come as a shock, Rafa fans are still in need of some rhetoric right about now—or at least a few paragraphs of emotional mirroring and an evocative quotation or two.
Coincidentally, or ironically, (depending on your mood) I recently found that I had saved an Aztec-yellow and pink edition of the New York Times Magazine from June, 2009. It was buried near the bottom of a pile of papers that has been occupying the northeast corner of my study for, apparently, three years now. I reread the cover article by Cynthia Gorney, ‘Ripped (Or Torn up)?’ yesterday. It is a well-written piece, including an exchange with Toni Nadal that is more spontaneous, if not more informative, than most. Of course, the repetition of injury events is striking, but in my opinion, the most poignant feature of the article is the way Gorney describes the experience of watching Nadal play tennis.
The journalist was in the stands for Rafa’s 2009 Indian Wells tussle with David Nalbandian, a round of sixteen match, which the Mallorcan won 3-6, 7-6, 6-0. She wrote, that during the match, “I said to the people near me, Rafa’s not going to win this match, is he. The look they gave me was amused, knowing and kind. A woman said, ‘Watch him.’ She was smiling.”
That’s the twofold (and occasionally smug) thrill of being a Rafael Nadal fan. Very often Rafa trounces the competition, but when the match is close, his fans experience the zinging electric charge of watching, as Gorney puts it, Nadal’s ‘savage refusal to yield.’ This excitement is augmented by the experience of knowing—with 99% certainty— that his savage refusal is not only guaranteed, but that it will, eventually and after much exhilarating effort, trump the other guy’s will to win.
This primal haze is most joyfully experienced in person. In 2011, I was in the fourth row for Rafael Nadal’s quarterfinal extravaganza against Ivo Karlovic, which ended with a third-set tiebreaker so tense that it nearly drove Larry Ellison under his seat. I was at Nadal’s 2012 Indian Wells battle with Nalbandian, which also went three sets, and which Nadal very nearly lost—except he did not. He won 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, and in the process he pulled the entire stadium, screaming wildly, to the cliff’s edge and demanded we watch him leap. Then he landed on his feet—like he usually does—and the crowd was left, either ironically or symbolically, (depending on your mood) utterly weak in the knees.
But as the members of the Occupy movement well know, 99% is not the same as 100, and the 1% can loom large. (*) At the time Gorney wrote her New York Times article, Rafa’s fourth round French Open loss to Robin Soderling was successfully overshadowing his entire career. It took time, but Rafa recovered from the torn up knees that plagued him throughout the 09 clay season. In 2010 he came back and covered himself in glory by winning three majors and reclaiming the number one ranking. Then Nadal lost six straight finals to Novak Djokovic in 2011, and one six-hour-long match in Australia to ring in 2012, but he beat Djokovic in Monte Carlo and rolled through rolled through this year’s clay season. But a surprise second round loss to Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon, and the subsequent announcement of renewed knee-trouble, seemed to mark an alarming increase in the pace of Nadal’s injury pattern.
History tells us that he will be back, rested and ready for the fight, but the worry is that there is always a first time for the last time, and that the final loss—the one that brings about the end of days—will arrive without warning. Yet if the thrill of watching him play is real, so is the risk. Hemmingway is not a favorite author of mine, but there is one line of his that reminds me of the way Rafael Nadal plays tennis. It is midway down page ten of my edition of The Sun Also Rises, a story that starts in Paris and ends in Spain,
‘Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.’
Life is inextricably linked to loss, or to put it more bluntly, death. Beginnings are followed, sooner or later, by endings. Nadal has a congenital foot condition, a bone that is not fully formed, which requires special orthotics that protect his feet but aggravate the damage tennis inflicts on the tendons in his knees. In other words, medical science was able to delay sooner until later. But even though the condition was not discovered by doctors until 2006, it has been with him since birth, a fault-line that runs through the core. Just as his muscular build, self-protective mindset, and relative ambidexterity shaped his style of tennis, so too might his physical vulnerability. As far as I understand it, his foot is at risk whether Rafa plays timidly or relentlessly, half-speed or full-throttle. So, why not go for it? Without this weakness, Rafa might not play with such ferocious strength, as if the next point really could be his last.
In 2009, Rafael Nadal said it would be ‘great’ if he got five more years out of his game, which places his retirement sometime in 2014. It is also possible Rafa might be finished tomorrow, or not for another five years from today. But whatever happens, whether he plays the US Open or Winston-Salem, or waits until London in November, it bears remembering that it takes living close to the edge to play like Rafa does — all the way up.
(*) Ok, so ‘99%’ is metaphor-speak for 87.5% in 2012, which makes ‘1%’ a numerical metaphor for 12.5%, making the above paragraph a fancy and statistically inaccurate way of saying that most of the time Rafa wins his tennis matches.
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Del Potro: "Nadal is a fighter, he'll be back soon and even stronger"
Argentine tennis player Juan Martin Del Potro, who was eliminated today in the second round at the Toronto ATP tournament by Radek Stepanek (6-4 7-6), has rejected the view that Spaniard Rafael Nadal is on the downward slope of his career.
Del Potro made a forceful defence of the Spaniard in his post match press conference.
He replied with a categorical "No" when asked about this being "the beginning of the end" for Nadal at the top of world tennis because of his injuries.
"I believe he is training at this very moment and preparing for the next tournament. He is a fighter with fantastic mental strength. He'll be back soon and even stronger," he said...
Posted: 08.12.12 11:08. Post subject: NADAL : OBJECTIVE MO..
NADAL : OBJECTIVE MONTE-CARLO Monte-Carlo, Monaco by Staff | 07.12.2012
Rafael Nadal and the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, a long-lasting love story that is far from ending !
Absent from the courts for several months (Wimbledon) due to a knee injury, the Spaniard, 8-time winner in the Principality (an absolute record in the history of tennis) has been back in training for a couple of weeks. During an interview given to the Spanish press, "Rafa" talked about his health and announced his objectives for the upcoming season : "It doesn't worry me if I slide down to the 15th position in the world ranking as long as I know that I can continue to play… I want to be 100% back in shape for Monte-Carlo and Roland-Garros… I'm not expecting to come back and win the Australian Open, I've got to be realistic !"
Having already signed up for the Monaco event some weeks ago, his return to competition is scheduled for 29th December for the exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi.
Those in the line-up for the HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco Cup are warned… Rafael Nadal has no intention of giving up his crown !
Posted: 08.12.12 11:10. Post subject: Пит Сампрас: It is ..
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It is going to be a tough process for Rafa. He is someone that needs to practice a lot and needs to play a lot, not only for the sake of his game but mentally as well. It will take some time, not only tennis-wise, but having the confidence in his legs again. It will take him time to get back into the groove. But I believe he will be right there. He will do all of the things he needs to do to get back to where he needs to be. I see him coming back strong. At 26 with 11 majors, if he stays healthy and plays for another four or five years, I think he is very well going to pass my total of 14 majors.
'Maybe this lay-off allows me to lengthen my career a little more'
Rafael Nadal Parera (Manacor, 1986) is happy. For the first time in the last six months he does not feel discomfort in one of his knees, taking him down the road of bitterness. Fresh out of shower, he explains to Diario de Mallorca his feelings, how he noticed he was missing "the adrenaline of competition" the most and how he faces winning again "as an exciting challenge".
RICARD CABOT Q: "What has been on the increase, uncertainty or hope?“ A: "Hope. In the last month and a half the progress has been quite good. I am very pleased.“ Q: "Your plans are the same, coming back at Abu Dhabi and later on going to Australia.“ A: "That’s the schedule, but let’s not deceive ourselves, it’s five months since I was last competing or practicing at a high level. If I’m able to practice at a high level in the remaining weeks I will be able to go to Doha with the ambition to compete and play, without expecting any result at all.“ Q: "And to think about winning in Australia is an illusion at the moment.“ A: "It's very difficult to get a good result from the start. I hope to be in my best condition by the end of February or at the beginning of March, well prepared physically, tennis-wise and mentally.“ Q: "What has been the worst, being laid off for these six months?“ A: "Main thing, not being able to play fit at Wimbledon, and then when I had to give up the Olympics. And later on, the uncertainty of not knowing when the knee would start to get well. The doctors said it was not a very complicated injury, but the fact is that the knee was not well. The first three months, without seeing any progress and going to the gym without getting results, that was tough.“ Q: "Did you get discouraged?“ A: "I am quite a positive person, and I had my team and my family to help me in these difficult moments. I was fortunate to be with my folks.“ Q: "For the first time in a decade you have spent half a year at home. Have you felt strange, having discovered forgotten pleasures?“ A: "I am quite a family man, and when a tournament ends, if I can, the first thing I do is going back to Mallorca. Nothing has changed.“ Q: "Have you noticed any pressure to return on tour?“ A: "No, on the contrary, I’m grateful to the sponsors who have understood the situation and have not raised any objections. They have supported me at all times. Maybe this lay-off allows me to lengthen my career a little more.“ Q: "These are different injuries, but Del Potro had struggled a lot returning to what he was. Are you afraid the same might happen to you?“ A: "What has to happen, will happen. It’s the beauty of life in general, it’s a challenge for me. I know it will be difficult to be winning again all that I have obtained in recent years. I will put in all the necessary work, always thinking positively.“ Q: "An injury of this type should be useful when assessing everything in its right perspective and relativizing the fact of being number one or not.“ A: "Being number one is not a priority at all. Either you are or you are not. It depends on winning many matches and being spared of injuries. I spent eight years in a row in the world top two. Logically I prefer to be number two rather than number four, but what makes me happy is having a chance to win a tournament, getting on court and competing with chances, being competitive, in control of the situation. To me it’s a fun and exciting challenge.“ Q: "From the first moment you made clear that your injury has not forced anyone into retirement. Why?“ A: "There are always speculations. Regeneration of a tendon is complicated and takes time. That’s the reality.“ Q: "Have you been looking up your injury, consulting encyclopedias, Google?“ A: "No, I’m not obsessed with the subject. I trust the doctors who have been treating me.“ Q: "The day you gave up the London Olympics, was that the worst day of your career?“ A: "It was an event that I was the least able of giving up in my life. It was worse in 2005 when I had the foot injury that was more problematic and more serious than this one. Moreover, now I am 26, having achieved more than I had imagined, so I see things more calmly.“ Q: "When you were presented as the Spanish flag-bearer for the Olympics, you had no doubts you would go?“ A: "After Wimbledon it was already bad, but I trusted that things would improve. I was not convinced that I would go. They were informed at all times of the risk we ran and that I had doubts whether it was appropriate to attend the presentation. They asked me to come, and I was delighted.“ Q: "When did the discomforts in your knee start?“ A: "It was bad at Indian Wells and it got really bad in the semifinals of Miami, where I retired against Murray. Between Miami and Monte Carlo I had two weeks off and clay suits me because it’s less damaging than hard. I competed with discomforts, but without limitations. In the semifinals of Roland Garros I played with my knee infiltrated, which is very bad for the tendon, but at the time I thought more about winning my seventh Roland Garros than about my knee.“ Q: "At Wimbledon, were you aware that maybe you should not have come?“ A: "No.“ Q: "Being eliminated in the second round against world number 100 was a surprise.“ A: "No. For two previous weeks I practiced only one hour a day, without running, very badly, and I played with my knee numbed. I had no chance of going through more rounds. You always think you can, but it was not possible even though I did my best.“ Q: "If you could go back, would you again play at Wimbledon?“ A: "I cannot go back. These are the things that I cannot consider. If you tell me that now, I would have not played. It’s easy to analyse that from here, but when you're there, in the heat of the moment, having won Roland Garros, you see things differently.“ Q: "Which defeat hurts you more, to Lukas Rosol or to Soderling at Roland Garros 2009?“ A: "They have no points of comparison. Both have in common that my knee was bad, but I could compete at Roland Garros. At Wimbledon no. The defeat to Rosol was a death foretold for me.“ Q: "Do you fear the most switching between surfaces now?“ A: "Switching between surfaces is always damaging and you try to avoid it. I will play at Acapulco to compete on clay, gain confidence and rhythm.“ Q: "Your schedule will proceed depending on how you feel?“ A: "I have made my schedule, I have it all planned out. What I cannot predict is whether my knee will be better or worse and whether I’ll win more or less matches. It’s not about the tournaments you play, but about the matches you get to dispute.“ Q: "The same goes for the Davis Cup.“ A: "I cannot deny that the first tie looks very complicated for me to play it, but you never know. In the Davis Cup I experience emotions different than those at other tournaments and I have really enjoyed playing it.“ Q: "How do you watch tennis from the sidelines?“ A: "I was watching all tennis events, but not every day. When you are at home and you can do what you like, you prefer doing other things. I watched matches that I had been excited to see.“ Q: "Are the virtues and defects of a rival best detected by watching his match on TV?“ A: "We all know everyone else, there are no surprises.“ Q: "There is unanimity about tennis having lost some interest without you. As if something is missing.“ A: "It's not up to me to say that. There have been exciting moments. Murray won his first Grand Slam tournament and Olympic gold, David Ferrer his first Masters 1000. And I'm happy for both. I suppose David will surpass me in the rankings in January, and I will be happy for him. The person comes before the athlete, the rival.“ Q: "Have you been in contact with Federer, Djokovic or Murray?“ A: "They have sent me messages of support and I've congratulated them when they won.“ Q: "Can we say that Federer is your friend?“ A: "I have my friends in Manacor, they are lifelong. Then there are Carlos Moyá and Marc López, among others. I regard Federer, Murray or Djokovic as colleagues. Unfortunately, I don’t have 300 friends. I have as many as I have.“ Q: "What has your normal day consisted of in these last months?“ A: "Hours of recovery in the gym and a little bit of those things I can’t do when I'm away.“ Q: "You took it as a semi-holiday.“ A: "A holiday is when someone wants to be on holiday. When your mind is on something else that’s not a holiday. But I did spend more time at sea.“ Q: "Have you missed the bustle of tournaments, with all it entails, such as travelling, matches, press conferences, advertising commitments?“ A: "I’ve kept my advertising commitments. What I've noticed as missing is the absence of competition, feeling the adrenaline of competition. To tell you the truth, it’s now that I’m missing the tour, because it’s now that I’m starting to feel better. When you feel bad, you do not consider playing.“ Q: "You are a fixture on social networks.“ A: "It’s a very important communication medium that allows me to keep in touch with my fans. It's the future.“ Q: "You see yourself playing until ...?“ A: "Until my body and my mind allow me. My goal is to arrive fit in Brazil 2016.“ Q: "When you retire, do you imagine your life to be very different from the one of the last few months?“ A: "I suppose so. At first I imagine I will have a bit of quiet, but I love sport in general a lot and I will continue to be involved in it one way or another. Mainly in tennis, but I don’t rule out my participation in other sports.“ Q: "Has the economic crisis reached tennis in any way? When facing a player with a low ranking, do you know whether he’s doing badly?“ A: "To be honest, the crisis has reached all sectors directly or indirectly. Anyone who says otherwise is deceiving oneself. But it has not affected the overall economic level of the tour, which continues to grow. Although, it’s not the time to boast about anything. It's time to work, accept that we are going through a bad time and try keeping our attitude necessary to change the situation, starting from the people in the streets up to those who are leading us.“ Q: "You have noticed the crisis around you?“ A: "I'm from Mallorca, Manacor, I’m from this world. I have colleagues who are doing badly, and when you see adverse situations you cannot stay on the sidelines. You suffer with them and you help as much as you can.“ Q:"Have you undergone anti-doping controls in these months?“ A: "Yes. And I’m not complaining about the controls, but about the methods. It's very easy to look good and make no comments about the subject, but I’m not like that. I’m saying clearly, I want anti-doping controls, but they make us go through very unpleasant situations and I don’t agree with that nor can I support it. At six-thirty this morning I had a blood and urine control. Yesterday, at six-twenty, the same. Two days in a row. This is not how it should be when you’re an athlete. Calling at your door that early, getting you scared to death thinking something terrible has happened. Also, I live with my parents.“ Q: "Why at six in the morning and two days in a row?“ A: "You have to give your whereabouts for 365 days a year, an hour a day, which I proposed to be at seven. I don’t think all that is legal, because it goes against your privacy and security. It seems inconsistent and unnecessary. The third time they cannot find you, you get banned for a year, at least. When they come in, I offer them coffee. They are employees and I have nothing against them. I want to undergo controls. I know I'm clean, never in my life would I take anything. I understand sport as a philosophy, and would rather retire than cheat.“ Q: "Being a sporting icon is tiring, boring, burdensome?“ A: "It would be arrogant of me to qualify myself that way. On the contrary, what has been happening to me is very positive, I couldn’t even dream about things that I was able to experience and I am grateful to life for everything that has happened to me.“
Posted: 09.12.12 18:48. Post subject: Rafael Nadal is fit ..
Rafael Nadal is fit and an Australian Open contender, says tournament director Craig Tiley
Jon Ralph Herald Sun December 10, 201212:00A
AUSTRALIAN Open tournament director Craig Tiley expects Rafael Nadal to be fit for the January 14 Grand Slam - and believes he will arrive as a contender.
The world No.4 last week spoke of his return from a six-month break with knee soreness, but discounted his chances of winning the Open.
There is still significant conjecture whether he will be ready at all by January, but Tiley is confident after recently speaking with the 2009 Australian Open champion.
Tiley needs look no further than Nadal's epic five hour and 53 minute final loss to Novak Djokovic in January to realise his importance as a drawcard.
Nadal has not played since Wimbledon, but Tiley says the Spaniard has been practising regularly and would not enter a tournament half-fit.
"We expect him to play and he is expecting to play himself," Tiley said.I know a couple of weeks ago I sent him four cases of balls. I know he's been practising.
"I have been speaking to him and his team. His first planned event is back right after Christmas (a lucrative Abu Dhabi exhibition on December 27), so a lot hinges on where he is at then.
"But we have a full expectation he will be ready to play.
"I think Rafa doesn't walk into anything unprepared. I think he's been playing for a while."
Nadal's presence at a grand slam event for the first time since Wimbledon would round out the field as the strongest seen at Melbourne Park.
The event has already announced record prizemoney of $30 million, and while a round-by-round breakdown has not yet been released, the expectation is first-round losers will pocket an extra 25 per cent.
"Right now we are expecting the top 100 men and the top 100 women," Tiley said.
"Normally around this time you get a sense if someone is injured or still recovering, but all of them are on track and we are talking the top 16 seeds.
"Everyone on the women's side pulled up healthy after their (year-ending) championships and the only question mark is Rafa, but we addressed that a month ago when we spoke to him.
"There is no question he is a drawcard. The Rafa-Roger (Federer) rivalry is the longest and most intriguing one, and then you add in (Andy) Murray and Djokovic.
"Last year it was a dream run with the semis and then the final. I remember at the end of it, seeing both Rafa and Djokovic after the final with no one else around, and they were both flat on the floor and getting attended to, because they were so spent."
Posted: 09.12.12 19:00. Post subject: Перевод интервью Dia..
Перевод интервью Diario de Mallorca (c небольшими сокращениями):
Чего сейчас больше – неопределенности или надежды?
- Надежды. В последние полтора месяца дела пошли гораздо лучше. Я очень доволен.
Твои планы те же – вернуться на корт в Абу-Даби и позже в Австралии? - Таково расписание, но не будем себя обманывать. Я пять месяцев не играл и не тренировался на высоком уровне. Если в оставшиеся недели я смогу тренироваться на высоком уровне, я поеду в Доху с намерениями играть и соревноваться, не рассчитывая на какой-либо результат.
Думать о выигрыше в Австралии сейчас нереально.
- Очень трудно добиться высоких результатов с самого начала. Я надеюсь достичь наилучших физических, игровых и ментальных кондиций к концу февраля - началу марта.
Что было самым тяжелым за эти полгода простоя?
- То, что я не был готов играть на Уимблдоне, а затем отказ от участия в Олимпиаде. Потом состояние неопределенности от того, что было неизвестно, когда колено пойдет на поправку. Врачи говорили, что травма не очень сложная, но колено-то болело. Было очень тяжело первые три месяца, когда не было никаких улучшений и никаких результатов от работы в тренажерном зале.
У тебя опускались руки?
- Я довольно позитивный человек, рядом со мной были моя команда и моя семья, они помогали мне в трудные моменты.
Впервые за десять лет ты провел полгода дома. Тебе это было непривычно? Ты вспомнил о забытых удовольствиях?
- Я очень привязан к семье, и когда заканчивается турнир, я при первой возможности возвращаюсь на Мальорку. В этом смысле ничего не изменилось.
На тебя давили, чтобы ты быстрее вернулся в Тур?
- Нет, наоборот, я очень благодарен спонсорам, которые поняли ситуацию и не выказывали возражений. Они все это время поддерживали меня. Возможно, этот перерыв позволит мне немного продлить карьеру.
У вас разные травмы, но Дель Потро было очень трудно вернуться на свой уровень. Ты не опасаешься того, что то же самое может случиться с тобой?
- Что случится, то и случится. В этом красота жизни, и это для меня вызов. Я знаю, что будет трудно снова выигрывать то, что я выигрывал раньше. Но я приложу все усилия для этого и буду настроен позитивно.
Подобная травма позволяет все правильно оценить в перспективе, в том числе относительную ценность первого места в рейтинге.
- Быть первым – это для меня совсем не приоритет. Или ты первый, или нет. Для этого надо выигрывать много матчей и быть свободным от травм. Восемь лет подряд я был вторым или первым. Я бы предпочел быть вторым, а не четвертым. Но я счастлив, что у меня есть шанс выиграть турнир, выйти на корт, соревноваться, контролировать ситуацию. Для меня это удовольствие и волнующий вызов.
Первым делом ты дал ясно понять, что такая травма как у тебя никого не заставила завершить карьеру. Почему?
- Всегда в таких ситуациях ходят слухи. Регенерация сухожилия – сложный и длительный процесс. Такова реальность.
Ты наводил справки о своей травме, консультировался в энциклопедиях, в Гугле?
- Нет, я этим не одержим. Я доверяю врачам, которые меня лечат.
Тот день, когда ты отказался от участия в Олимпиаде, был ли он худшим в твоей карьере?
- Это событие, от которого мне было труднее всего отказаться в своей жизни. В 2005 г. было еще хуже. У меня была более серьезная и более проблематичная травма, чем эта. К тому же сейчас мне 26 лет, я достиг большего, чем я когда-либо рассчитывал, поэтому на многое смотрю спокойнее.
Когда тебя представляли в качестве знаменосца испанской сборной, ты был уверен, что будешь участвовать в Олимпиаде?
- После Уимблдона дела уже обстояли плохо, но я верил, что будет улучшение. Я не был убежден, что поеду. Мы информировали (Олимпийский комитет Испании), что есть определенный риск и что у меня есть сомнения в уместности моего участия в этой презентации. Меня попросили принять участие, мне это было приятно.
Когда начались проблемы с коленом?
- Боли были в Indian Wells, в полуфинале Майами стало совсем плохо, и я снялся против Марри. После этого перед Монте-Карло у меня было две недели отдыха, к тому же грунт мне подходит больше, он не такой травматичный для моего колена, как хард. Я играл с болью, но в полную силу. В полуфинале РГ я играл с инъекцией, что очень плохо для сухожилия, но в тот момент я больше думал о выигрыше 7-го РГ, чем о своем колене.
На Уимблдоне ты не думал, что, возможно, тебе не следовало приезжать?
- Нет.
Поражение во втором круге от № 100 было сенсацией.
- Нет. Две предшествовавшие недели я тренировался только один час в день, стоя на месте, очень плохо. Я играл с обезболивающим уколом. У меня не было шансов пройти дальше. Ты всегда думаешь, что сможешь, но это было невозможно, несмотря на то, что я прилагал все силы.
Если бы можно было повернуть время назад, ты бы поехал на Уимблдон?
- Время невозможно повернуть назад. Я не могу об этом рассуждать. Говоря об этом сейчас, я бы не играл. Сейчас легко всё это анализировать, но тогда, сгоряча, победив на РГ, ты смотришь на вещи по-другому.
Какое поражение больнее – от Росола на Уимблдоне или от Содерлинга на РГ?
- Их нельзя сравнивать. Единственное, что их объединяет – это то, что у меня было плохо с коленом. Но на РГ я мог соревноваться. На Уимблдоне – нет. Поражение от Росола было для меня объявленной смертью (в тексте - "muerte anunciada", видимо, из названия романа Маркеса "Хроника объявленной смерти" - "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" - прим. Ольги)
Ты опасаешься смены покрытий?
- Смена покрытий всегда наносит вред, её стараешься избегать. Я буду играть в Акапулько, потому что там грунт, мне нужно обрести уверенность и ритм.
Твой календарь будет зависеть от того, как ты себя чувствуешь?
- Я составил свой календарь, я его тщательно спланировал. Но я не могу предвидеть того, как поведет себя колено, и буду ли я выигрывать много или мало матчей. Дело не в турнирах, а в количестве матчей, которые ты играешь.
То же касается и Кубка Дэвиса.
- Не буду отрицать, что первый круг мне будет очень сложно сыграть, но никогда не знаешь заранее. Играя на КД, я всегда испытываю особенные эмоции, и я очень люблю играть этот турнир.
Ты смотрел теннис все это время?
- Я смотрел все турниры, но не каждый день. Когда ты дома и можешь заняться тем, что тебе нравится, ты предпочитаешь другие вещи просмотру матчей. Но я смотрел те, которые были мне интересны.
Достоинства и недостатки соперников легче разглядеть по телевизору?
- Мы все друг друга хорошо знаем, так что никаких неожиданностей.
Сложилось общее ощущение, что интерес к теннису без тебя не тот. Чего-то не хватает.
- Не мне говорить об этом. Было много выдающихся моментов. Марри выиграл свой первый ТБШ и Олимпийское золото, Давид Феррер выиграл свой первый Мастерс. Я рад за обоих. Думаю, что в январе Давид обойдет меня в рейтинге, и я буду счастлив за него. В первую очередь для меня он личность, а уже потом спортсмен, соперник.
Ты контактировал с Федерером, Джоковичем, Марри?
- Они прислали мне слова поддержки, я поздравлял их, когда они выигрывали.
Можно ли сказать, что Федерер твой друг?
- Мои друзья в Манакоре, мы дружим с детства. Еще есть Карлос Мойя и Марк Лопес. Я отношусь к Федереру, Марри или Джоковичу как к коллегам. К сожалению, у меня не 300 друзей. Сколько есть, столько есть.
Каким был твой обычный день за последние месяцы?
- Часы восстановления в тренажерном зале и немного из того, чего я не могу делать, когда нахожусь в отъезде.
Ты относился к этому почти как к отпуску.
- Отпуск – это когда ты хочешь быть в отпуске. Когда твои мысли сосредоточены на чем-то другом, это не отпуск. Но я провел много времени на море.
Ты скучал по суете турниров и по всему, что с ними связано – перелетам, матчам, пресс-конференциям, рекламным обязательствам?
- Я выполнял свои рекламные обязательства. Мне не хватало соревнования, адреналина от соревнования. Сказать по правде, я только сейчас начал скучать по Туру, потому что я стал чувствовать себя лучше. Когда ты плохо себя чувствуешь, ты не думаешь об игре.
До какого возраста ты планируешь играть?
- До тех пор, пока позволят мое тело и мой настрой. Моя цель – быть готовым сыграть в Бразилии в 2016 году.
Когда ты уйдешь из тенниса, какой ты себе представляешь свою жизнь? Она будет отличаться от той, что ты жил последние месяцы?
- Думаю, да. Я думаю, что сначала я немного отдохну, но я очень люблю спорт, я буду так или иначе с ним связан. Главным образом с теннисом, но не исключаю и другие виды спорта.
Ты проходил допинг-контроль в эти месяцы?
- Да. Я не жалуюсь на допинг-контроль, мне не нравятся методы. Очень просто казаться хорошим и не давать комментариев на эту тему, но это не про меня. Я считаю, что допинг-контроль нужен, но мы оказываемся в очень неприятных ситуациях, и с этим я не могу согласиться и не могу это поддерживать. Сегодня утром в 6.30 ко мне пришли брать кровь и мочу. Вчера приходили в 6.20. Два дня подряд. Так не должно быть. Звонить в дверь в такую рань, до смерти пугая, что случилось что-то ужасное. К тому же я живу с родителями. (Рафа не сказал здесь то, что он говорил на видео: перед сбором анализов контролеры требуют поднять майку, спустить трусы и повернуться на 360 градусов – прим. Ольги).
Почему в 6 утра и два дня подряд?
- Ты должен сообщать о своем местопребывании 365 дней в году в определенный час, в моем случае это 7 утра. Я считаю, что это незаконно, потому что это вторжение в личную жизнь и угроза безопасности. Это выглядит непоследовательным и ненужным. Если тебя не обнаружат три раза подряд, это означает дисквалификацию по крайней мере на год. Когда они приходят, я предлагаю им кофе. Они на работе, и я ничего против них не имею. Я хочу проходить проверки. Я знаю, что я чист, никогда в жизни я бы ничего не принял. Я понимаю спорт как философию, лучше уйти, чем обманывать.
Быть спортивной иконой утомительно, скучно или обременительно?
- Называть себя так было бы высокомерием с моей стороны. Все, что происходило со мной в жизни, исключительно позитивно. Я не мог даже мечтать о том, что мне довелось пережить, и я благодарен жизни за всё, что случилось со мной.
Posted: 09.12.12 19:28. Post subject: Оленьке спасибо за п..
Оленьке спасибо за перевод, а Рафе за это развёрнутое интервью Я, например, впервые узнала, почему всё же Рафа принял участие в церемонии передачи-принятии Олимпийского флага. Процедура допинг-контроля Я злая за сам процесс
Posted: 09.12.12 21:31. Post subject: Nadia0808 пишет: Я,..
Nadia0808 пишет:
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Я, например, впервые узнала, почему всё же Рафа принял участие в церемонии передачи-принятии Олимпийского флага
Я тоже. Меня этот вопрос интересовал. Еще про (не)участие в Уимблдоне было интересно прочитать. Вообще, многое становится понятнее после этого интервью. Про Давида Феррера понравилось.
Posted: 07.02.13 22:02. Post subject: Сегодня в Экип вышло..
Сегодня в Экип вышло интервью с Рафой, взятое в Чили. Фредерик Бернес, который не раз писал о Рафе, отправился за тридевять земель, чтобы взять это интервью. На бамосбригаде его перевели на английский, я - на русский.
Я хочу быть как раньше
Нам пришлось ждать почти 8 месяцев, чтобы Надаль смог перевернуть страницу после кошмарного поражения от Лукаша Росола во втором круге Уимблдона 28 июня 2012 года. Колено, пораженное синдромом Гоффа, болит до сих пор. Но, согласно врачам, исцеление очень близко.
Вопрос об интервью в Чили обсуждался с его PR-агентом и был решен во время АО (Бенито был на АО, т.к. он работает с Типсаревичем, а теперь и с Викторией Азаренкой - прим.Ольги). Когда мы прилетели сюда, нас неожиданно остановили. Нам сказали, что он в стрессе, что он встревожен и не хочет общаться до своего первого матча. Телефон не отвечает. Но мы ведь можем встретить его в отеле. Приехав туда, застаем довольно странное мероприятие, организованное спонсорами турнира. Звучит молодежная музыка, зал забит персонажами из reality-шоу. Все в мини-юбках и откровенных топах. Сливки общества Винья-дель-Мар в лучах Надаля. Женщина задает ему вопросы, которые он не слышит из-за громкой музыки, камеры работают, затем все это заканчивается. Мы у цели. Итак, мы поднимаемся в его номер вместе с его PR-агентом и менеджером.
Как обычно, Надаль не смотрит на часы. После 50-минутного разговора мы выключаем диктофон. Но Надаль продолжает говорить. Мы спускаемся в лобби отеля, где Надаль должен встретиться с дядей Тони и физиотерапевтом Рафаэлем Маймо, после чего разговор продолжается. Поскольку две или три «лолиты» все еще ожидают там, ему приходится снова фотографироваться. Он это делает с полной невозмутимостью.
Какое преобладающее чувство сегодня? Облегчение от того, что вынужденная пауза закончена, радость от того, что ты можешь снова играть, стресс или страх от того, что не сможешь хорошо играть, страх от продолжающихся болей?
- Страх? Нет. Стресс – да. Это нормально. Я чувствую облегчение и радость, это несомненно. На самом деле главное сейчас – терпение. Я должен идти шаг за шагом и принимать как должное то, что не смогу сразу играть на своем лучшем уровне. Если не будет терпения, ничего не получится. Я не испытываю страха, потому что знаю, в каком состоянии находится мое колено. Последние три недели все тесты показали отличные результаты. По правде говоря, мое левое колено в фантастическом состоянии по сравнению с правым (смеется). Сейчас я знаю, что если побегу, то не порву сухожилия. Это наиважнейший фактор. Врачи мне это пообещали. Так что с этим все в порядке, нет никаких волнений. Даже несмотря на то, что сухожилие всё еще болит…
Эта боль в порядке вещей? Врачи тебя о ней предупреждали?
- Да, они сказали мне, что боль будет уходить постепенно. Она должна уйти к концу февраля. Я смогу снова быстро передвигаться по корту. Просто сухожилию нужно дать время, чтобы оно привыкло к нагрузкам.
Как бы ты описал эту боль?
- Это постоянная боль. Я чувствую ее по утрам, когда встаю, днем, когда ем ланч или когда выполняю бэкхенд. Первые два дня в Чили были трудными: мне было очень больно, у меня были плохие тренировки. В воскресенье и понедельник было уже лучше, меня это очень порадовало. Приходится с этим мириться. Сначала у меня была боль 9 дней из 10-ти, потом 8 из 10-ти, и ее становится меньше и меньше… Но болит-не болит, а преобладающее чувство – это радость от того, что я здесь, что тренируюсь с профессиональными игроками, что у меня будет матч, что я почувствую дух соревнования…
Тебе никогда не приходилось выбывать из строя так надолго. Начинать заново сейчас, наверное, более сложно, чем в 2006 г., когда у тебя была травма ступни, и ты не играл 3 месяца.
- Честно? Нет. Травма ступни была очень тяжелая. Врачи рисовали мне картину завершения карьеры. С коленом не было ничего подобного. Отличие в том, что в 2006 г. я был лишь в начале карьеры. Сегодня мне 26. У меня еще есть время, и я планирую играть еще несколько лет. Эти травмы похожи тем, что у врачей нет рецепта, чтобы избавить от боли.
Какой момент был самым тяжелым в течение этих почти 8-ми месяцев?
- Хуже всего было когда я понял, что не смогу принять участие в Олимпийских играх. Сначала я думал, что все заживет быстро. Колено подвело меня в лучший момент моей карьеры.
В лучший? Ты больше выигрывал в 2008-м, 2009-м, 2010-м…
- Да, но в 2012-м я лучше играл. Финал АО против Джоковича, несмотря на то, что я проиграл, был отличным. Я продолжил серию побед в Монте-Карло, Барселоне, Риме, на Ролан-Гаррос. У меня шла игра.
Если ты проиграешь Дельбонису, это будет очень плохо?
- Нет.
А как же насчет ожиданий, амбиций?
- Они никуда не пропали. Только не это! Но здесь [в Чили] результат значит меньше всего. То же касается рейтинга. Если все будет хорошо, мои цели через два месяца будут другими. Моя цель – быть готовым на 100% перед Монте-Карло и следующими грунтовыми турнирами. Проиграть здесь – пфффф – это не проблема. Семь месяцев простоя, семь месяцев без полноценных тренировок - после этого логично проиграть здесь. Будет очень печально только в том случае, если колено будет болеть слишком сильно.
Если тестирования колена были превосходными только в последний месяц, это означает, что даже без желудочного вируса ты не был бы готов соревноваться на АО.
- Это так. Вопрос стоял так: смогу я выиграть в Мельбурне? Ответ: не смогу. Мне незачем ехать на ТБШ при таком раскладе. Здесь, в Винье, проиграть будет не так тяжело, как в первых кругах в Мельбурне.
Многие говорят, что твое возвращение - это как заново начатая карьера. Это так?
- Моя карьера и так уже состоялась. Мне не хочется начинать новую (смеется). Я продолжу старую, если не возражаете (смеется). Я остался прежним. Я по-прежнему испытываю страсть к игре. У меня по-прежнему самые высокие требования к каждому своему удару. Я по-прежнему мотивирован тренироваться. Если колено позволит мне тренироваться более 3-х часов в день с полной нагрузкой, если я смогу бегать, не думая о колене и о боли, отчего мне не делать то же самое, что я делал раньше? То, что я отлично играл перед тем, как остановиться, очень мне помогает. Память об этом еще свежа.
С учетом проблем с коленом, сможем ли мы увидеть прежнего Надаля? Очень сильного на грунте, способного выиграть Уимблдон, но с трудностями на харде?
- Все зависит от колена. Если оно выдержит, я не планирую менять свой календарь с тем, чтобы больше играть на грунте. Почему? Потому что если ты хочешь стать первым, вторым или третьим в рейтинге, ты должен играть и выигрывать на харде. Я считаю, что это возможно.
Если мы скажем тебе, что в следующем году ты выиграешь US Open, ты сочтешь, что это возможно?
- Я отвечу, что я не знаю. И еще скажу, что я не знал этого в 2010-м до тех пор, пока не выиграл там. Но если с коленом будет все нормально, назовите причину, по которой я не могу в это поверить. Хотя бы одну. Прошедшие 8 лет я был в топ-2 в рейтинге, так что я смею надеяться, что не забыл, как играть в теннис за 7 месяцев. Я не хочу казаться высокомерным, я просто хочу сказать, что я могу вернуться на этот уровень.
А если мы скажем тебе, что через 4 месяца ты выиграешь Ролан Гаррос? Это кажется тебе возможным?
- Я отвечу, что я не знаю (смеется). Никто не знает. Если я сыграю в Монте-Карло, Барселоне, Риме так, как бы мне хотелось, у меня будет шанс. И я приложу все усилия.
В Австралии Матс Виландер сказал, что у тебя будет недостаточно времени и что даже если твое имя Надаль, в этом году в Париже ты будешь аутсайдером…
- Хорошо. Отлично. Посмотрим. Это правда, что на РГ фаворитом я не буду, но мне и не нужно им быть, чтобы выиграть.
Согласен. Эти грунтовые турниры [в ЛА] нужны тебе, чтобы вернуться в четверку и избежать четвертьфинала против Джоковича, Федерера или Марри?
- Во-первых, сначала нужно дойти до четвертьфинала, а с учетом тех очков, которые мне надо защищать в предстоящие месяцы, вернуться в четверку к концу мая будет сложно. Нужно ли мне это, чтобы выиграть РГ? Нет. Я могу выйти на уровень топ-4, не входя в топ-4. В конце концов, что сложнее: вернуться в топ-4 к концу мая или выиграть РГ? Я считаю, что первое сложнее.
После финалов в Нью-Йорке и Мельбурне некоторые – среди них тренер Джоковича Мариан Вайда – сказали, что наступила эпоха Джоковича-Марри. У тебя есть эго. Как оно к этому отнеслось?
- Мое эго спокойно (смеется). Меня такие высказывания не задевают. Они соответствуют действительности, не так ли? Существуют два великолепных игрока, которые играли финалы двух последних ТБШ. Это может означать конец эпохи Федерера-Надаля, но кто знает. Я лишь на год старше Джоковича и Марри, так что, может быть, меня пока рано хоронить. Восемь месяцев назад у меня были отличные шансы снова стать первым в рейтинге. Не будем этого забывать слишком быстро. Я попробую протиснуться в эту эпоху Джоковича-Марри (улыбается).
Ты смотрел АО?
- Нет, у меня не было доступа к Евроспорту.
Как это?
- Наши спутниковые каналы с января изменились, поэтому не смотрел (В этом году спортивный канал испанского ТВ не транслировал АО. – прим. Ольги). Конечно, я видел отрывки. Что я могу сказать? Во-первых, Джокович еще раз доказал, что он настоящий боец, во-вторых, что он отличный теннисист, и в-третьих, что он не подвержен травмам. Это везение. Он может делать все что угодно, и ему все нипочём. Дайте мне два года без травм и…
Ты проходил антидопинговые тесты во время отсутствия в Туре?
- Девять раз. Три пробы крови и шесть проб мочи. Это много для спортсмена вне соревнований. За последние две недели меня тестировали четыре раза, два из них один за другим.
В конце прошлого сезона Марри и Федерер высказывали недовольство тем, что в предыдущие месяцы проводили меньше тестирований, особенно внесоревновательных . Ты согласен?
- Если завтра примут решение, что меня нужно проверять каждую неделю, для меня это совершенно не проблема. Замечательно. Жизнь прекрасна, отлично. Мне нужно знать, что те, против кого я играю, так же чисты, как и я. Так что сказать, что нужно проводить больше проверок, легко. Когда ты говоришь это, тебе все аплодируют и все под этим подписываются.
Ты не считаешь, что результаты допинг-тестов должны публиковаться?
- Это было бы лучше всего. В этом все дело! Если бы все тесты публиковались, количество слухов уменьшилось бы. Я целиком за это.
Что ты думаешь о возможности введения биологического паспорта в теннисе?
- Я не знаю, что это такое (смеется). Биологический паспорт, суд по делу Пуэрто – все это далеко от меня. То, что сейчас происходит в суде в Испании, недоступно моему пониманию. Я не понимаю, почему доктор Фуэнтес не называет имен. Я не понимаю, почему судья не просит его назвать имена. Меня это разочаровывает… Было бы лучше, если доктор назвал их, и они понесли бы ответственность. Я не знаю, почему они не хотят разобраться до конца. Надо это сделать. Я слышал, что этот доктор работал с иностранными спортсменами, но поскольку он испанец, тень ложится в основном на испанских спортсменов. Меня это расстраивает. Из-за таких людей как Армстронг репутация остальных находится под сомнением.
Ты в курсе, что некоторые считают, что твое семимесячное отсутствие было негласной дисквалификацией?
- Да, и эти слухи существуют, потому что результаты допинг-проб не публикуются. ITF и WADA должны быть прозрачными. Если этого не произойдет, всё будет продолжаться, и я буду вынужден выслушивать глупые и бездоказательные комментарии Кристофа Рохуса*. Я не представляю себе, как нечто подобное могут говорить без единого доказательства.
ITF говорит, что допинг-пробы крови обходятся очень дорого и что…
- (Перебивает) Знаете, что обходится очень дорого? Плохой имидж спорта. Вот что имеет высокую цену.
Винья-дель-Мар – это твой первый турнир после того, как судей на вышке призвали быть строже относительно правила 25-ти секунд перед подачей. Это можно назвать «поправкой Джоковича-Надаля», поскольку вы двое особо медлительны и часто подвергаетесь за это критике. Тренировался ли ты специально, чтобы соответствовать этому правилу?
- Я медлительный, я признаю это. Но я считаю, что применение этого правила, невзирая на все обстоятельства, скажется на качестве игры. Если применять правило 25-ти секунд в финале US Open 2011-го года, особенно в 3-м сете, и в финале АО 2012-го года, то качество игры было бы ниже. Невозможно сыграть невероятные комбинации одну за другой, если у тебя нет времени отдышаться между ними. Бывает, что я медлю после простого розыгрыша. Если судья наказывает меня или делает предупреждение, нет проблем. Но если ты только что сыграл сумасшедший розыгрыш, это другое дело. Что произойдет в таком случае после невероятного розыгрыша? Твоя подача или следующий удар улетят за три метра от линии. Это будет уже не теннис. Говорят, что эти изменения делаются для телезрителей, но вы не считаете, что телезрители предпочитают видеть красивые розыгрыши? No?
Frédéric Bérnes
*В середине января Кристоф Рохус в интервью бельгийской радиостанции высказал подозрения относительно длительного отсутствия в Туре Надаля и Содерлинга. О Надале он сказал: «Как можно быть таким сильным на Ролан Гаррос, а через месяц быть не в состоянии играть? Это подозрительно, но доказательств нет. Возможно, что он действительно травмирован».
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Posted: 07.02.13 22:42. Post subject: ольга Огромное спас..
ольга Огромное спасибо за перевод!! Такое откровенное интервью!! И он просто ангел спокойствия!!! Эти вопросы - по поводу выигрышей через 4 месяца и проч... У нормального человека реакция была бы не такой стоической... И, боже мой!!! Колено и в Чили болело... Да просто каждую фразу можно без конца обсуждать!! Но главное - он вчера во время матча уже изменился... Поэтому - я надеюсь...
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Posted: 09.02.13 14:50. Post subject: интервью
Я по-прежнему испытываю страсть к игре. У меня по-прежнему самые высокие требования к каждому своему удару. Я по-прежнему мотивирован тренироваться Это замечательно, у нас сразу вырастают крылья. Успехов тебе, Рафа!
Posted: 19.02.13 19:15. Post subject: Перевод nou.amic c V..
Перевод nou.amic c VB.com
Ten years of tears
In the players box, Rafael Nadal's father burst into tears. He covered his face with his hands. Others put their arms round him. Toni Nadal, uncle and coach to the world number five, clenched his fist. They had not just seen the Mallorcan win a title. They had received the first positive news since Roland Garros 2012, after seven months spent watching the tennis player recover from a partial tear and inflammation of the patellar tendon of his left knee. Nadal had just won the Brazil Open.
For the tenth consecutive year, the Mallorcan had won at least one title. It is a considerable record, but it is also of the least importance: Nadal is searching for Nadal, although he still has far to go, and this Brazilain title is more than anything a positive boost to the tennis player's morale and to his tennis, because he showed marked improvement during the tournament, starting out with things not very clear and finishing with his best match since he returned to competition.
Nadal, world number 5, takes 400 points away with him from South America, which is almost a third of those he lost in Australia, when he did not appear in Melbourne to defend the place in the AO final he obtained in 2012. He is now 1110 points behind Ferrer, the world number 4, who this week will be competing in Buenos Aires and the following week will play in Acapulco, like the Mallorcan, whose calendar after that is a mystery. Not even he knows if he will compete in the two Masters 1000 on cement in the United States or save himself for the European clay court season.
His family's tears, however, reflect that fact that the statistics, data, mathematics, are the least of it. What is important is the suffering that has been left behind and will be overcome in future, the emotions that have been experienced and are yet to be felt, the fight that has been fought and has still to be fought: only his family and his team know how much it really hurt the eleven-time Grand Slam tournament winner to miss the 2012 London Olympics, two Grand Slam tournaments, the Davis Cup final and the Masters Cup (WTF). Only those closest to him have seen him in those winter days, ill at Christmas, always suffering. Only his most intimate, the ones that cry and cover their face so that their sentiments cannot be seen, know the inside story: how much effort it has taken Nadal to fight every day to return to being what he was.
Posted: 25.02.13 18:29. Post subject: Во время мероприятия..
Во время мероприятия Bacardi в Акапулько Рафа давал интервью, цитаты из которого есть в статье, переведенной malimeda c VB.com. Интересно, что говоря о своих ближайших планах, Рафа не упоминает американские мастерсы, речь идет о МК, европейском грунте и РГ.
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Nadal asserts Abierto Mexicano will be a good test
Rafa Nadal said the AMT will be a good test that will help him face his next European clay swing
Spaniard Rafael Nadal, world number five, stated today that the Mexican Tennis Open will be a good test to see how his left knee has improved, although he asserted he's feeling well overall.
Nadal returns to the Acapulco tournament, to be held from February 25 to March 2, after eight years of absence.
"So far things have been going well, I need to feel 100% about my knee to think about those tournaments (European clay swing), Acapulco will be a good test and then we'll see," Nadal said at the press conference .
"I need to try and arrive to Monte Carlo, the first tournament of the European clay swing, in good condition and if that happens, then we'll see about Roland Garros," Nadal said, adding that his plan is to have a good tournament in Acapulco, without thinking about Roland Garros.
The Spaniard said that the second Grand Slam of the season is many weeks away, although it's a tournament that is always marked on his calendar, "but let's go step by step, because I had spent many months without competing."
"I feel physically well in general" and although the recovery of his knee "has been going slowly", he accepts that and works every day to overcome it and hold on "and I will do so until I can and hopefully for many years to come".
He considers as the most important in his return the fact that he's back on a tennis court and has been competing, achieving two "great results" in his first two tournaments, a finalist at the Vina del Mar tournament in Chile and the champion at the Sao Paulo tournament in Brazil.
Nadal said he was not able to determine the degree of pain and that he had spent a long time without competing, although he believes his recovery is on the right track.
"My knee is better some days and worse the other days, but the most important thing is, it seems that everything is on the right track and the goal is to have a higher percentage of good days each week," he pointed out.
Promoting the Champions Drink Responsibly campaign of the Bacardi brand, Nadal said that even if his knee were perfect after seven months of not competing, "one does not arrive and immediately connects, one needs several weeks of adaptation and preparation," he concluded .
Posted: 26.02.13 15:39. Post subject: LLEYTON26 пишет: На..
LLEYTON26 пишет:
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На мтф написали, что Рафа снялся с ИУ и Майами.
Странно, что Рафа сам об этом официально не сказал. В принципе, к этому снятию всё шло, не хочет Рафа рисковать. Вот только перед МК будет полтора месяца простоя. Даже потренироваться будет не с кем - все на турнирах.
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Posted: 26.02.13 15:42. Post subject: ольга Монфис только ..
ольга Монфис только свободен, тоже снялся с мастерсов, тоже колени, будет готовится к грунту. Ну спаринги Рафа найдет думаю, кто рано проиграет в Майами, там будет 1-2 недели до МК. Но это пока не официальная информация, официальную так рано никто не даст.
Posted: 27.02.13 16:59. Post subject: С Твиттера журналист..
С Твиттера журналиста Juan Ceballos о ПК Рафы после матча 1 круга (перевод на английский - malimeda с VB.com:
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Nadal: "I was not feeling comfortable with my knee? No. That's not true. It's been 3 days since my knee has been reacting better than in Brazil and in Chile." Nadal: "That is a cause for happiness. The goal is to have less bad days. More positive days." Nadal on Indian Wells and Miami: "These are speculations. I've always told the truth. I don't know whether I'll be there or not. It will depend on how I feel." Nadal: "My intention is to go and play at Indian Wells. We'll see what the decision will be. Not even I know that. Journalists do not know more than I do." Nadal: "The court [here] was slow. It's not true this is more convenient for me. I like playing on a fast court." Nadal: "I hope to wake up tomorrow again with a positive feeling about playing the match." Nadal: "I felt sorry each time I was watching the Latin American swing and couldn't participate myself. Our schedule is getting complicated." Nadal: "Who knows whether in future I'll sacrifice other tournaments in order to play where it pleases me more." A wink to Latin America. Nadal: "I do not take easily any match at any moment of my career. I always give my best to win." Nadal: "Maybe I'll be well in two, three or six weeks. Winning each match now is a great thrill. I appreciate things much more." Nadal listening to a question on a possible final against Ferrer: "It's obvious I haven't explained myself well. If you'd like, I'm going to repeat it." #StepByStep A valuable press conference. As he did since he came to Acapulco, Nadal speaks clearly, directly and sincerely. Screams as if for The Beatles when Rafa is leaving the press room. Rafamania on full. Tomorrow it will be even bigger.
Последняя фраза что значит-то? "Битломанские крики, когда Рафа покидает комнату прессы. Рафамания по полной программе". Кто кричал-то? Журналисты?
Posted: 28.02.13 21:59. Post subject: Тони дал интервью те..
Тони дал интервью телеканалу IB3, об этом в Твиттере написал Давид Надаль, а на английский перевела nou.amic c VB.com
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"If his knee is OK, we'll go to Indian Wells. There should be no problem playing there. The surface is not the problem. The doctors tell us the problem is in playing a lot of tournaments one after another... and Rafel will have had a week's rest before Indian Wells. What worries us is the level of our opponents. If you are not 100%.. it's difficult to compete on hardcourts with top level players.
For the moment it's going well and it looks as if we'll go. But Rafel prefers to wait until the end of the week to decide. It also suits us to play in Indian Wells to avoid being a month without playing before the clay court season begins."
Toni Nadal spoke about how Rafa looked to him in Acapulco:
"I think Rafa looked considerably better than in the two previous tournaments.. and most importantly, it looks as if his knee is on the right road now. We had more doubts in Sao Paulo, Rafel had more problems with his body there. But now it looks as if it's OK."
"When I got up to watch the match, he was already 4-0 up and I saw the end of the set. It looked as if he had been playing at a good level."
"The normal thing is that as the knee responds, Rafel will gain confidence and mobility, and his game will improve too. Like today."
"If Rafa is well, he's obviously the favourite against Mayer. But in his present state, it'll be a complicated match."
"If we beat Mayer, we could meet Almagro. That would be a good test indeed, one of very high calibre."
Posted: 01.03.13 11:46. Post subject: В интервью на корте ..
В интервью на корте после четвертьфинального матча и на ПК Рафа сказал: - он мог бегать почти на 100% - он снова получает огромное удовольствие от тенниса - "вы не представляете себе, что значит не думать о колене во время игры - это фантастика" - в 2005 он здесь начинал, сейчас он снова здесь начинает и он так же взволнован этим - вчера уровень его игры понизился во 2-м сете, сегодня это было не так, соперник начал подавать очень хорошо и провел отличный 2 сет - во время тренировок в солнечную погоду он не так потеет, как вечером, вечером очень высокая влажность - в полуфинале он не фаворит после 7 месяцев простоя, но ему нечего терять и он постарается - при любом исходе матча он будет счастлив - завтра будет хороший тест, но для него каждый матч сейчас - это тест, такова сейчас его жизнь
Перевод твитов журналиста Juan Ceballos (malimeda c VB.com)
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Nadal: "I've been running almost normally. It was a very difficult match. Leonardo played a great second set." Nadal: "Nico is one of the most difficult opponents in the world on clay. He arrives excellently prepared. I'll have to fight to be in the final." Nadal: "I don't think I'm the favourite tomorrow, after 7 months without competing. I'm going to try. I have nothing to lose." Nadal: "Whatever happens tommorow, I'm going to be happy." Nadal: "I'm enjoying myself playing tennis again. I fell free to run almost at 100%." Nadal: "Tomorrow it will be a good test. But now, there are good tests every day. This is my life today." Nadal: "Each victory has a significance. The one today has a huge significance. I made into the semis at three tournaments that I've played." Nadal: "Today I was able to isolate myself for one short hour and a half playing golf." Nadal: "Yesterday in the second set I dropped my level. Today that was not the case. Mayer served very well." Nadal: "I'm loving Acapulco. Clay helps. But I'm open to coming back. Let's see what happens." Nadal: "The excitement is the same. In Acapulco 2005 I was starting. And now I'm starting again." Nadal: "I've been sweating less practicing by day than playing by night. Humidity takes its toll. It's leaving you drained." Nadal: "I couldn't test myself against an opponent of such level. I hope to be competitive and create problems for him. I'm going to enjoy the match." Nadal: "I've never regarded tennis as work. Ever. Work is something else, much harder. I've always enjoyed competition." Nadal: "You have no idea how fantastic it is not having to think about your knee."
Posted: 03.03.13 09:38. Post subject: Мексиканский журнали..
Мексиканский журналист Juan Ceballos в Твиттере, перевод malimeda c VB.com
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It's not even news anymore: for the 3rd consecutive day, Rafa practicing now without a bandage under his left knee. His sparring partner: Eduardo Peralta, Mexico. Here comes loads of photos of Rafael Nadal practicing for minutes now in Acapulco. Here comes the last match ever on clay in Acapulco. Nadal-Ferrer. Couldn't be better. A small detail: Ferrer came rushing in. He didn't even wait for the official announcement to burst out onto the court. Nadal's knee? Nadal's FOREHAND. Brutal. Eight years ago, here in Acapulco, he has started being Nadal. Today, also here, he's becoming Rafa again. Yes, The Bull. Mexican Eduardo Peralta was Nadal's punching ball for the last 4 days of practicing. Now, Ferrer is a punching bag. And Nadal is punching and punching. Nadal wants to go away quickly to the beach party. When the rest of us arrive, he'll be there waiting for us... It's a privilege to be watching this fabulous return of Rafael Nadal to his own level. Tennis was missing him. A correct time violation: Nadal took 43 seconds before serving. However, the same happened in previous matches and nobody got punished. Ferrer: "I'm glad he's back, although he has burnt me down." Great in defeat. Nadal: "Sorry about today. It was one of the best matches that I played in a very long time." Nadal: "Competing in Acapulco again has been an unforgettable experience. I've been feeling as a player again, competitive." What a fabulous night in Acapulco. Unforgettable. Later on, more about Rafa, the champion of the Mexican Open.
Posted: 03.03.13 11:52. Post subject: Nadal Dethrones Ferr..
Nadal Dethrones Ferrer For Acapulco Trophy
Acapulco, Mexico by ATP Staff
Second seed Rafael Nadal crafted his most impressive performance of the season Saturday evening in Acapulco, dethroning three-time defending champion David Ferrer 6-0, 6-2 to win the Abierto Mexicano Telcel title.
Since returning from a seven-month absence with a left knee injury in February, Nadal has won 12 of his 13 matches to open his comeback season. He began by finishing runner-up at the VTR Open in Vina del Mar (l. to Zeballos) before triumphing at the Brasil Open 2013 in Sao Paulo (d. Nalbandian). Saturday’s victory over Ferrer marked Nadal's 38th clay-court trophy, with seven coming against Ferrer. The Mallorcan also won the Acapulco crown on his event debut in 2005.
"This was a great week for me and today I played exceptionally well, I dominated the game against the world No. 4 and couldn't be happier, especially when I think where I am coming from," said Nadal. "Perhaps the conditions were in my favour but I feel it was maybe one of the best matches of my career."
Nadal never allowed Ferrer to get involved in the highly anticipated final, as he claimed the first eight games. The 11-time major champion broke his countryman five times from eight opportunities, winning 58 per cent of his return points. He closed out the victory in just 65 minutes to improve his FedEX ATP Head2Head series with Ferrer to a 17-4 mark.
The left-hander will play an exhibition match against Juan Martin del Potro on Monday before contesting the season's first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. "It's a tournament that I love and one of the best events in the year. My knee responded well this week and I really hope it will continue this way," said Nadal.
Ferrer was aiming to retain a trophy for the third time in 2013. The 30 year old successfully defended titles at the Heineken Open in Auckland (d. Kohlschreiber) and the Copa Claro in Buenos Aires (d. Wawrinka). He dropped to a 20-16 record in tour-level finals.
"I wish I could have played a better match but I never found my rhythm. You have good days and bad days," mused the right-hander. "Rafa played really well and I couldn't do much, and never had any chance [but] I leave with a positive feeling," Ferrer added.
Posted: 03.03.13 11:59. Post subject: Rafael Nadal beats D..
Rafael Nadal beats David Ferrer to win Mexican Open title in Acapulco
Rafael Nadal comfortably beat David Ferrer in the Mexican Open final to win his second tournament since recovering from a serious injury to his left knee. The Spaniard spent seven months out of tennis but has now won two events in three weeks after also claiming the Brazil Open title in February. Nadal, 26, defeated 30-year-old countryman Ferrer 6-0 6-2 in Acapulco.
"I've had some difficult months, especially during my time away from tennis, but I feel good," said Nadal. "I have to thank my family and everyone involved in my rehabilitation. It has been a difficult time over the last few months." Former world number one Nadal, now fifth in the rankings, needed only 65 minutes to claim his 38th clay court tournament victory and 52nd ATP Tour title. He won 81% of his first-serve points against Ferrer and saved both break points he faced. Nadal has now won 12 of his 13 matches since returning to the sport after recovering from a torn tendon and maintained his record of never losing against a Spanish player in a final. "I want to congratulate Rafa. He is not an easy player to beat," said world number four Ferrer. "If I have to lose I am happy to lose to Rafa." Nadal also confirmed he would play in next week's Indian Wells hard-court tournament in America, despite speculation he might miss the event to protect his knee. "My heart tells me I should continue competing, that I need to move on to the next tournament," he said.
Rafael Nadal's return to tennis
February - Chile Open (runner-up) February - Brazil Open (winner) March - Mexican Open (winner)
Posted: 04.03.13 15:20. Post subject: The hurt is over at ..
The hurt is over at last for Nadal
Rafael Nadal's fist-pumping comeback reached a new high with his victory at the Mexican Open on Sunday, giving tennis fans hope the 11-times grand slam champion can return to the top of the game.
In an unexpectedly one-sided match, Nadal blew away three-times defending champion David Ferrer 6-0 6-2 in little over an hour.
But the relatively minor claycourt event in the picturesque Pacific resort city of Acapulco took on far greater significance as the sport's attention focused like a laser on Nadal's left knee and the injury that had forced him to take a seven-month hiatus from the tour.
Few top players have taken that much time off and been able to reclaim their former glory, but Nadal was not focusing on the history books following his latest win.
"I don't know if it's happened before, but what I do know is this has been the most emotional week of my career after such a difficult time," the world number five said in an interview with Reuters.
While there were moments during the week when Nadal visibly limped, he said his knee fared much better than during his earlier comeback events at the VTR Open in Chile and the Brazil Open, both last month.
'NO LIMITATIONS'
"There were days in Brazil when it was really bad, and in Chile, during one match as well. But here, it didn't hurt. It just bothered me some," he said. "This was the first week where I could run with complete freedom and no limitations."
Nadal, 26, suffers from chronic knee tendinitis and last September discovered he had a partially torn left patella tendon. He had been absent from tournament tennis since his upset loss in the second round of Wimbledon last year to little-known Czech Lukas Rosol.
Former American tennis pro Brad Gilbert noted that Nadal's latest victory came on the heels of wins over some of the sport's top competitors, including world number four Ferrer.
"Ferrer is playing arguably the best tennis of his career," said Gilbert. "I mean, the guy has been on fire."
Gilbert is perhaps best known for coaching top players Andy Murray, Andy Roddick, and Andre Agassi. He adds that dealing with injuries can be very tricky.
"Andre used to tell me that if you are nursing something that's sore, and you try to play through it, that's the easiest way to hurt something else," he said.
Fellow Spaniard Tommy Robredo, who also was forced to take seven months off the tour following a thigh injury last year, emphasises the physical strain of top flight tennis.
"You have to push your limits every week, every match, for so many weeks back to back," said Robredo, a former top-five player who lost in the Acapulco second round.
"We always have something hurting here or there."
EXCEPTIONAL NATURE
Tennis historian Steve Flink points to past comeback efforts of top players to stress the exceptional nature of Nadal's current run.
"The example I think of is John McEnroe after the 1985 season," said Flink. "He decided to go on a sabbatical. He was gone closer to six months and frankly it did not work out. He was really never the same player he had been when he left."
Flink notes that McEnroe won all of his major titles prior to taking the time off, and he was only in his mid-20s.
Agassi was also sidelined from the tour for several months at the end of 1993 due to wrist surgery, Flink adds, but his absence was not as long as Nadal's.
"His was quite a successful comeback," said Flink, pointing to Agassi's triumphs at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon.
Whether or not Nadal, follows the example of McEnroe or Agassi remains to be seen, but early reviews are encouraging.
"If his knee isn't hurting, if it's solid, I think we have Nadal back in the hunt for everything," said Miguel Angel Zubiarrain, a tennis analyst for Spain's Cadena SER radio network.
Nadal is scheduled to play an exhibition match against Juan Martin del Potro at New York's Madison Square Garden on Monday, and will then test his knee further at the California's Indian Wells hard-court tournament.
"In a sense he's reminiscent of Jimmy Connors in the 70s and 80s," said Flink. "It's not necessarily his game that wins the public over, although his game is electrifying at times, but it's his professionalism and his fighting spirit," said Flink.
"It doesn't matter whether its Acapulco or Wimbledon," he added, "he gives it absolutely everything he's got."
Asked what keeps him going, Nadal smiled and paused.
"My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?" he said. "I've just got to keep working to be able to do what I enjoy, which is play."
Posted: 04.03.13 22:02. Post subject: Рафа вернулся! Патр..
Рафа вернулся!
Патрик Муратоглу
Наконец-то! Теннисный мир настолько соскучился по Надалю за время его долгого отсутствия, что сейчас действительно ощущаешь, какое же это счастье – вновь лицезреть испанца с ракеткой в руках.
Рафа уже успел принять участие в трех турнирах, два из которых выиграл (в Сан-Паулу и Акапулько), а в самом первом (Вилья-дель-Мар) проиграл лишь в финале. Играет он пока на любимом грунте, да и соперники как минимум в Вилья-дель-Мар и Сан-Паулу были весьма скромные, однако уже сейчас можно утверждать, что Надаль стремительно приближается к своему прежнему уровню. То с какой легкостью он обыграл в Акапулько двух своих соотечественников Альмагро и Феррера, явно не последних людей в туре – этому лучшее подтверждение.
ПРЕВОЗМОГАЯ БОЛЬ
Несмотря на столь оптимистичный старт, очевидно, Надаль и сам чувствует, что не готов на сто процентов, а со стороны это заметно еще сильнее.
Рафа, прежде хладнокровный и невозмутимый, пока слишком часто поддается эмоциям и действует неровно. Особенно это сказывается на и без того не самом стабильном компоненте его игры – подаче. За прошедшие три недели он практически не делал эйсов, а количество двойных порой было просто чудовищным (к примеру, три только в одном гейме в матче против Шарди). Конечно, это выводит Надаля из себя, и, как следствие, он начинает ошибаться еще чаще.
Другой важный аспект полноценного возвращения – способность преодолеть страх перед возможной новой травмой. Пока Рафа перемещается по корту с определенной опаской и, видимо, чувствуя некий дискомфорт и неуверенность, избегает длинных розыгрышей.
ЗАТО ЕСТЬ ХАРАКТЕР
Даже будучи не в лучшем что физическом, что ментальном состоянии, Надаль по-прежнему остается грандиозным бойцом. Да, в его действиях еще нет автоматизма и над многим предстоит работать, да, он понимает, что, возможно, пока не способен доминировать в каждом матче, и поэтому пытается приспосабливаться под соперников, но уже сейчас Рафа побеждает, находя в себе силы преодолевать эти объективные сложности. Сегодня испанец играет, словно голодный до успехов юниор, стремящийся доказать, чего он стоит.
ВЕРНУТЬСЯ СРАЗУ НА ВЕРШИНУ
Много ли вы знаете теннисистов, возвращавшихся после 8-месячного отсутствия, и сразу доходивших до трех финалов, обыгрывая при этом весьма сильных соперников (имеются ввиду Альмагро и Феррер)? Я удивлен, что большинство обозревателей не придаёт этому значения, воспринимая успехи Рафы как само собой разумеющееся. Уровень конкуренции в мужском теннисе за последние годы вырос настолько, что оставлять сей факт без внимания неправильно.
ЧТО В ИТОГЕ?
Рафа, безусловно, показал, что по-прежнему конкурентоспособен, и главным для него сейчас становится фактор времени. В этой связи интересно, каким будет его личный календарь в нынешнем сезоне.
Уже стало известно, что Надаль, скорее всего, сыграет на турнирах в Индиан-Уэллсе и Майами.
Таким образом, после трех недель турниров на грунте ему почти без перерыва предстоит играть на харде. Как это скажется на его коленях? Не лучше ли было не лететь в Америку и не рисковать здоровьем всего за месяц до начала грунтового сезона? Эти вопросы остаются открытыми.
Posted: 04.03.13 22:19. Post subject: Странная статья, при..
Странная статья, при всем уважении к автору.
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Рафа, прежде хладнокровный и невозмутимый, пока слишком часто поддается эмоциям и действует неровно
Может быть, Рафа действует неровно по другим причинам? Долгого отсутствия, например. Дальше про подачи и про то, как Рафа выходит из себя - вообще как будто о ком-то другом написано.
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да, он понимает, что, возможно, пока не способен доминировать в каждом матче, и поэтому пытается приспосабливаться под соперников
Под кого конкретно он приспосабливался? Как в теннисе можно "приспособиться"? С Альмагро и Феррером Рафа продолжал приспосабливаться? Если так, то пусть приспосабливается и дальше.
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Сегодня испанец играет, словно голодный до успехов юниор, стремящийся доказать, чего он стоит.
Я бы хотела понять, что это за образ такой - "голодный до успехов юниор" и как он соотносится с нынешним достаточно осторожным и осмотрительным Рафой. Было бы гораздо интереснее прочитать мнение уважаемого специалиста о том, каков прогресс в игре Рафы за последние недели. Но создается впечатление, что он посмотрел лишь матч с Шарди (это СП вроде бы) и больше ничего не видел.
Posted: 05.03.13 19:08. Post subject: Тони в интервью сказ..
Тони в интервью сказал, что, как видно из матчей против Альмагро и Феррера, Рафа играл очень агрессивно. По этому пути Рафа будет стараться идти и впредь, т.к. другого выбора, чтобы сохранить ноги, у него нет.
Posted: 05.03.13 19:36. Post subject: Сейчас случайно заст..
Сейчас случайно застала кусочек Новостей по каналу НТВ+Теннис. Это что-то! Слышу такой текст: "Сегодня у Серены был шанс поквитаться с Викторией А. за поражение в Дохе и она этим шансом воспользовалась". Ну, думаю, прикалываются. Нет, на полном серьезе говорят! Дальше: "Свой матч сыграли Надаль и Дель Потро. В этом матче Дель Потро одержал легкую победу 76, 64". Что-то еще в этом духе говорили загробным голосом, и на этом фоне идет видеоряд: Рафа и Дельпо валяют дурака, кидают друг другу свечки, Дельпо делает твинер, Рафа выигрывает розыгрыш, отбивая мяч головой с лета. Дураки, штоле?
Posted: 05.03.13 19:54. Post subject: Nadia0808 пишет: Я ..
Nadia0808 пишет:
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Я после победы всё ждала, что скажет "главнокомандующий" нашего бойца
Вот и перевод статьи подоспел (nou.amic c VB.com)
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Transformed by his knee
"He's adapted to not putting so much trust in his legs," says Toni Nadal, before Indian Wells
By Juan José Mateo
When last night, at the mythical Madison Square Garden, Rafael Nadal came out to play an exhibition to prepare him for the Indian Wells Masters 1000 (his first tournament on outdoor hardcourt in a year), Toni Nadal, his uncle and coach, had already remembered a conversation that took place during the seven months the eleven-time Grand Slam champion was sidelined.
- "Mats Wilander says it'll be difficult for Rafael to reach the level he had before the injury," Toni was informed by a journalist.
- "I hope he's mistaken," replied the coach, who has always admired the Swedish ex champion. "If his body responds, logic makes me think Rafael will maintain his former level."
However, when Nadal makes his debut in Indian Wells on Saturday or Sunday spurred on by his marvellous win on the clay of Acapulco (6-0 6-2 over David Ferrer, #4), it will be as a sharper version of himself than the one that took him to the top. Decisive shots and decisions like a shot. That is what Nicolas Almagro and Ferrer saw from Nadal in their Mexican face offs. The Mallorcan does not ask before he shoots now. He fires off the shot without any previous interchange. He, who has always dominated through rhythm and consistency, is now fighting with his gloves off, transformed by the pain in his knee.
"Rafael served pretty well during the clay swing," commented Toni. "From the situations I've experienced, I know this is less wearing on the knees and that helps him mentally to serve better: he has no other choice," he went on. "As was seen against Ferrer and Almagro, he's definitely playing much more aggressively," he added. "Let's see if that's the path we'll follow. We've no other choice. The conception has to change. The fact he had problems with his knee and less mobility in Chile and Sao Paulo (the first two tournaments after his injury), has meant he's gradually been adapting his game as he doesn't trust his legs so much. Finding himself in this position against Almagro and Ferrer, he knew he had to be aggressive, and he was," he said. "Rafa has done this on different occasions before now. When running is enough, he runs; when he really needs to, he gets down to taking more risks and serving better. He has been doing this for quite some time."
This capacity to decide, reflected in his transformation and in the choices he is making - hitting a winner instead of defending; taking risks instead of always playing to a rhythm; going for a big serve instead of one that simply controls the start of the play - , now moves on to be tested on hard courts. Nadal has not lifted a trophy on this surface since the autumn of 2010 (Tokyo). He has not played a match on cement since deciding not to play the semifinals in Miami 2012, precisely because his left knee was hurting him. He knows more players give him more problems on these courts and needs his best version to face those at the top.
"The first hard court tournament won't be easy, of course," admitted Toni. "This year is an unknown quantity. We've spent many months without playing. Anyone can appear and anyone can easily surprise you," he went on. "I know how difficult it is. Rafael has won on the surface he adapts best to. On hardcourt, we'll see."
Before all this, Nadal boarded a plane to New York, the city where he had his most glorious moment, where he completed the Grand Slam, winning all four slam tournaments, there in 2010, by defeating Djokovic in the US Open final. Amid the flashes yesterday, Nadal hugged Serena Williams, smiled at Victoria Azarenka and looked Juan Martin del Potro, his rival both on the tour and at the exhibition, in the eye. The Argentinian was much more than his opponent in a friendly match. He was the first touchstone, the first notched up on cement in a year, the first step towards rejoining the tour completely: "I have to listen to my heart," Nadal argued, "and it's telling me I have to go on competing, that I need to go to the next tournament."
Posted: 05.03.13 23:04. Post subject: "Acapulco gives ..
"Acapulco gives me confidence" : Rafael Nadal
By Ricardo Coello
ACAPULCO, 4th March- When it comes to the natural abilities required to stand out at tennis, they say it is 8o% mental and 20% physical, and Rafael Nadal's convincing win at the Mexican Open in Acapulco possibly takes him very close to the level he wants to be at for tackling the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Miami and for heading into the clay court swing in Europe after that.
The tennis player from Manacor spoke to Excélsior about the significance of his win and also about other personal subjects such as his Rafa Nadal Foundation and how much he missed tennis during the seven months he was away from it because of his knee injury:
"At the moment what helps me a great deal is returning to competition and to tell the truth today (Saturday) has rounded off a beautiful week for me after suffering in Chile and Brazil. Despite the results being very good," said Nadal, "my knee made me suffer a lot and this week I've been able to compete, although there was some pain, without any limitation on being able to run and that gives me energy and tremendous optimism after many months suffering a great deal and obviously it's been one of the most emotional victories in my career because of everything that happened these past months and, of course, winning Acapulco, which is a big tournament, gives me confidence."
- You were starting out on your career in 2005 when you won your first big tournament in Acapulco, now you've won it again as you're making your comeback after a long absence...
- "Yes, obviously in 2005, after the success in the Davis Cup in Seville, I went to Brazil and then Acapulco gave me a good start and hopefully it'll be the same now, it's a similar feeling although it's a completely different situation.
Returning to the Latin American swing after so much time, I managed to win in Brazil and win again here in Acapulco beating two of the toughest opponents you can meet on clay (Nicolas Almagro and David Ferrer), a more than satisfactory result for me, almost unexpected, and I hope it can become a good starting point for what could be some good years to come."
- How much have these seven months you were sidelined helped you mature as a tennis player?
- "To tell the truth, unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, you never know, because I had to stop maybe when I was enjoying playing tennis most, was most appreciating everything that was happening to me, which was all very positive. The first half of 2012 was unforgettable, one of the best in my career, and I had to stop. These have been difficult months.
I've always tried to appreciate everything that happens to me because I've never had things easy. I've had to fight, to work and I know that it's thanks to very many people that have helped me that I'm able to be here.
I think that when you're not playing you long for and miss many feelings you have and perhaps don't appreciate when you experience them every day, like the simple act of walking out on to a tennis court in a stadium packed full of people cheering for you.
When you're competing week in week out, there are things you think are routine, but right now every time I walk out on court it's almost a new feeling."
- About the Rafa Nadal Foundation, when did the idea occur to you, how does it work and what gave you the idea of setting up this foundation?
- "The foundation works well, it's young, only three or four years old, and needs to keep on growing, but we can't complain. We already have plenty of projects, one in India together with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation and three projects in Spain where we help or give an opportunity to discapacitated children and children with problems of social integration, we have a centre in Barcelona, one in Aragon and another in Andalusia. These are centres where children with problems at home or a discapacity have the chance to go after school to play sport, study and obviously continue their education and detach themselves from the problems they may have to experience every day at home.
We also work with the Special Olympics, which is a nice project. I think the foundation is on the right path and I have people that work very hard so that the foundation will keep growing and achieve it's objective, which is to help children more and more. The idea simply grew from what one sees around the world and also from all those events I've been able to do in the past to raise funds for other foundations, so in the end I decided to create my own and hand out those funds where I thought it was necessary, where I think they should go.
I've always had a special sensibility and a special feeling for children and we work with them."
- What are you going to do so as not to lose this silver "Guaje"?
Posted: 10.03.13 11:13. Post subject: Indian Wells: Nadal ..
Indian Wells: Nadal d. Harrison
SATURDAY, MARCH 09, 2013 /BY STEVE TIGNOR
For the first five games, and the final seven, Rafael Nadal’s second-round win over Ryan Harrison went by the book. The fifth seed was far the superior player and physical presence, while the overmatched American was forced to try things he normally doesn’t try. During those stretches, Rafa looked much like the Rafa who has won this tournament twice.
Nadal yanked the ball, and his opponent, from corner to corner with his forehand, and he hit his backhand with flat authority. He stretched Harrison wide with his serve and forced him to hit the ball from above his shoulder on the baseline. Best were Nadal's passing shots. He broke Harrison with a sparkling pair of passes, one forehand, one backhand, to take command of the second set. For these periods of his 7-6 (3), 6-2 win, you wouldn’t have known it had been nearly 350 days since Rafa had played a match on a hard court.
But for the other seven games, from the time Nadal was up 4-1 to the time when the two players started the first-set tiebreaker, you might have had an inkling that something wasn't quite right. A combination of wind and nerves and surprising play from Harrison kept Rafa from running away with this match much earlier than he did. He wasn’t consistent enough to take a lead and step on the gas. Serving at 4-2 in the first set, he played a tentative, herky-jerky, error-filled game, letting the ball dance in the wind and smothering it in the net—later he called it with obvious sarcasm, a “fantastic game.” From that point to the breaker, the set was a scrap.
Harrison, whose early experiments with serving and volleying had been dismal failures, now made some inroads with the tactic. He knocked off a couple of volleys and bluffed Rafa into return misses on second serves. Harrison got to 15-30 on Nadal’s serve at 4-4, and had a break point at 5-5. Each time, Nadal used his hook serve to Ryan’s backhand to escape. By the tiebreaker, Nadal was back in control. When he punctuated a rally with a high forehand volley winner for 4-1, the packed house got to its feet. The crisis had passed.
Harrison lost his 17th straight match to a Top 10 opponent, but he’ll have to feel better about this performance than he did after his blitz loss to Novak Djokovic in Australia. Harrison was effective with the serve and volley, and he held his own in all departments for much of the first set—it wasn’t just Rafa’s bad play that made it close. But he also went bigger on his forehand than he normally would, and it cost him. He gave up the first mini-break of the tiebreaker with a slapped forehand that caught the tape. Nadal never trailed from there.
Rafa is back on hard courts, and the crowd at Indian Wells, where he is as popular as he is anywhere else, welcomed him by filling even the top rows of seats. He was shaky at times, and a few times he lost his range as soon as he had found it, but he didn’t appear to be limited physically. He’ll play Leonardo Mayer next.
Posted: 10.03.13 13:39. Post subject: На ПК Рафа произнес ..
На ПК Рафа произнес гневную речь относительно правила 25 секунд:
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“I played much faster, no?, he said. “And I am doing because somebody very smart puts a new rule that is a disaster, in my opinion. Not in places like here that is dry, you know, not very humid place, but is completely disaster when we are playing in tournaments like Acapulco, Brazil, or Chile.”
“Sorry,” Nadal continued. “I cannot support that, because for so many facts in my opinion the rule is wrong. First thing, because the rules go against the great points of tennis.
“Because if you see the highlights of the end of the season, I didn’t see not one highlight, the best points of the season, I did not see not one ace.
The best points of the season are long rallies and amazing points. With this 25 seconds, you play a long rally and you think you can play another long rally next point? No. So go against the good tennis.
“So the guy who really accepted this rule was not very smart, in my opinion. Even if you don’t have time for the TV to repeat a good point, and then the referee, I don’t know what he’s doing on his chair. We can play without referee 100%. The lines on every line, Hawk‑Eye, now 25 seconds. He don’t have to analyze nothing. He just have to put the clock and that’s it. Then we can play. Put the clock on court and play without umpire, because it’s not necessary anymore because the umpire is not enough good to analyze if the match is being hard, if somebody is losing time, penalize him with a warning.
“If both players are going the same way because you are playing a great point and you need to rest 40 seconds after the point, we don’t need anymore umpire. That’s my feeling. You know what I did? Maybe somebody ‑‑ maybe nobody did at the ATP, but I went back to my matches, great matches, in Grand Slams, playing long rallies in big tournaments, and when you play like a 30 points, you know, 30‑shots rally, 40‑shots rally like final of Roland Garros, like final of Australia, like final of any good tournament, you know, how much time we rested?
“You have to see the third set of the US Open 2011 against Djokovic, and you tell me if the crowd was very happy about what happened in that set or not, and tell me if with this new rule that can happen again. Please.”
Posted: 11.03.13 21:45. Post subject: BNP PARIBAS OPEN Ma..
BNP PARIBAS OPEN
March 9, 2013
Rafael Nadal
INDIAN WELLS, CALIFORNIA
R. NADAL/R. Harrison 7‑6, 6‑2
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. How satisfied were you by the way you played and obviously the outcome? RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I am satisfied to be in the next round. That's the most important thing. I am satisfied to be here playing at Indian Wells. Two weeks ago, two weeks before, I didn't really know if I would be here playing. I am happy to be here. I am happy to be in the third round. Good victory for me today against a good opponent. I felt that I had the match more or less, you know, ‑‑you never have control of the matches, no? But with this 4‑1 and few breakpoints, I feel that I was playing okay. Nothing, you know, special, but okay. And after that I lost that game, and I played fantastic game in the 4‑2 with one double fault, three forehands outside of the stadium. (Laughter.) You know, after that the set became very tricky.
Q. How do you feel after the match? Do you feel good? RAFAEL NADAL: I am fine, yeah. My physical performance needs to improve. My movements need to improve. Matches like this help me, for sure, no? Today more than any result, any victory is important for me because that gives me the chance to play another day. That's what I need, play matches. I need to compete. I really, you know, want to compete, and I need. So that's the only way to win matches without playing fantastic. That's the only way to play very well in a short period of time.
Q. Were you able to go out there and say, I'm going to run as much as I can? I don't care what my knees feel like, I'm just going to play? Or is it sometimes in your mind? RAFAEL NADAL: No, I try my best in every moment, no? After seven months I'm not gonna take crazy risks. But I am here. When I am playing a tournament, if you know myself, my mentality is try my best in every moment. I really don't think about my knee, but is true that for me today after seven months out of competition is easier to start and play on clay more than grass. Is true that we have the clay court season not very far.
Q. Here in America it's hard court, hard court, hard court. Do you think there should be more clay court tournaments? RAFAEL NADAL: I don't want to say that, because anything that I will say not gonna affect in my career. That's not going to change during the years that I will be playing, no? I think it's more medical things than players think. Hard courts are aggressive for the body. If for the next generations wants to have longer careers and want to finish his careers with better conditions physically, that's my humble opinion. ATP have to find a solution and not continue playing more and more tournaments on this surface that is the harder one for the joints and for the knees, for the foot, for the ankles, for the back, for everything.
Q. You're the main one who talks about hard courts and wanting to have more tournaments not on hard courts. Not as many as the other top players discuss that. Do you think that a lot of players discuss your opinion, or do you think it's more your personal experience, more you than other people? RAFAEL NADAL: Depends. If you will ask a player who plays fantastic on this court is a thing that‑‑ sorry. At the end, we are here. At the end, it's an individual game. At the end, everybody thinks for himself. And if somebody plays great on this surface, it's difficult to go against this surface, no? Is normal that if the volume of the tournaments on hard are more than in the rest of the surfaces, is normal than like the top players of the world, best players of the world, are specialists on hard courts. So they not gonna go against the hard court. That's why I say is not another players' thing, it's a medical thing. Somebody have to think not for today. I repeat: I'm not talking about my career. My career is done. We gonna finish my career playing on the same or more tournaments on hard, because that's the dynamic. But, yes, no, my opinion is for the next generations that something have to change.
Q. You have recently launched the Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy. Can you talk about that and what you hope tennis fans will take away from it? RAFAEL NADAL: I think it's a great application, no? Somebody, normal people can compare his shots with professional tennis players. I think it's a great idea. I support it. I love that. I really think that it's a good thing, and I hope the people enjoy it.
Q. Is it kind of amazing how healthy Roger has stayed throughout his career, considering all the hard court tennis he's played? RAFAEL NADAL: No. It's amazing? I don't think so. I think, you know, he's very good. Don't take my words because my English is not perfect, no? But I think he's very lucky to have this talent, no? The talent of Roger is amazing, and the things that he's able to do it, you know, the rest of the‑‑ all the players, we are not able to play this way. He win a lot of matches with, you know, short points; win a lot of matches with the serve, with one forehand. So, you know, that's why he's able to keep having big, you know, big career and very long. That's amazing thing that's have a lot of value. No, nothing to say about that. He's great, and for many reason he's the best of the history, no?
Q. At this stage of your comeback, is it more important to win matches even if you don't feel like you're playing well, you're not moving well, or is it more important even if you lose to feel like you're hitting the ball well, you're moving better? Which is more important? RAFAEL NADAL: Seven months away, a lot. I will repeat the same answer than before: If you win, you have more chances. If you have more chances, you will compete more and you will practice more and you will be ready to put yourself in 100% conditions in a short period of time. If you are losing very early it's tough because you can practice a lot, but at the end, it's not enough, the practice, no? Important thing is compete. I'm very happy about what I did in Latin America clay court season. Was very important for me, and I really came here because it's one of my favorite tournaments. I really want to keep competing. But for the first tournament on hard and with the conditions, I don't expect big result, but just be here, practice with the other players, compete like tonight I did, have another chance after tomorrow. That's very positive for me. And seriously, I happy, and I don't expect a lot. I take everything like positive thing. For me, today, every victory playing great, playing bad, have a lot of value, no? If I can play fantastic like I did in Acapulco, very happy because I was playing one of my, you know, top levels that I played ever on clay. But if I played not well like I did in Brazil and I was able to go to the final and win it, that's a very positive thing. These things help me, like the things in Brazil helped me to play much better in Acapulco.
Q. You have many fans. It's been said that really no one was quite missed like the way you were missed these last months. Has there been one moment, one comment, that has been particularly touching to you and that you reflect on as a nice moment of appreciation for people's sense of your absence? RAFAEL NADAL: For me I think will be not good to say anyone, no? For me, my feeling was I feel the love of the people during all this time. Because when you are winning and when you are playing is great to have all this support, because, you know, you feel important; you feel great on court. But when you are off, when you are not having your best moment receive as many messages as I did, I receive, you know, in my personal phone and in the Twitter and Facebook, you know, is something very important. And seriously, you know, that's give me a lot of energy, no, to keep doing, keep trying hard every day. When I was back and I played in South America and Brazil and Chile and in Mexico, the support more than ever was really, really amazing. When you feel that support of the people, when you go on court, when you are walking around outside of the court, is something that, you know, you cannot appreciate sometimes when you are doing, you know, when you are having that every week. But when you come back after seven months, you know how ‑‑ you really understand how much I miss it, all of this, no?
Q. Just back to hard courts, you have won US Open, Australia, here, Canada, Cincinnati. RAFAEL NADAL: Madrid. Cincinnati didn't play well there. Never (Laughter.)
Q. But you have won a lot of big tournaments on hard courts. RAFAEL NADAL: You know what? I am saying that today about the hard courts, because if I had to answer that question in 2005, 2006, maybe I will not answer that question, because seems like I am just having this opinion because I prefer to play on clay because I am much better on clay than hard. But today, after winning, you know, a lot of tournaments on hard and having a fantastic career, if we pull out all my clay court titles and just analyze my career outside of clay, I had, you know, much better career that I ever dreamed. That's why I feel that I have the chance to have my opinion, and, you know, to express my opinion, because I was able to play very well on hard for a long time. I win a lot of important tournaments on hard, and that's give me the confidence to say that to you.
Q. So in a sense, though, you're saying maybe you sacrificed maybe too much of your body to win those tournaments on hard courts? RAFAEL NADAL: No. I did what I had to do to be happy. I did what I had to do to convert my goals. I did. Seems stupid say like if I will be back on time I will not change nothing, because I will change things for sure, 100%. But I tried hard to win the US Open; I tried hard to win Australia; I tried very hard no win in the Olympic Games. That was very important for me. I work very hard to be better player on every surface. Finally I think I did, because I played great on Wimbledon a lot of times; I played great in US Open; great in Australia. I think since‑‑ I don't know how my career gonna come back now, but before I stop in 2012 I was able to compete. I had the chance to win in every tournament I played, on hard, clay, grass. That's a lot. Means a lot to me.
Q. Tonight's was a very quick match. His attitude was to come at you, to come to the net, to make you play your shots quickly, but you seem to be playing a little quicker than normal. Are you having to just change your attitude a little bit knowing that there is a bit more pressure on you to play the points? RAFAEL NADAL: That's true. I played much faster, no? And I am doing because somebody very smart puts a new rule that is a disaster, in my opinion. Not in places like here that is dry, you know, not very humid place, but is completely disaster when we are playing in tournaments like Acapulco, Brazil, or Chile.
Q. Or Rome. RAFAEL NADAL: Sorry. I cannot support that, because for so many facts in my opinion the rule is wrong. First thing, because the rules go against the great points of tennis. Because if you see the highlights of the end of the season, I didn't see not one highlight, the best points of the season, I did not see not one ace. The best points of the season are long rallies and amazing points. With this 25 seconds, you play a long rally and you think you can play another long rally next point? No. So go against the good tennis. So the guy who really accepted this rule was not very smart, in my opinion. Even if you don't have time for the TV to repeat a good point, and then the referee, I don't know what he's doing on his chair. We can play without referee 100%. The lines on every line, Hawk‑Eye, now 25 seconds. He don't have to analyze nothing. He just have to put the clock and that's it. Then we can play. Put the clock on court and play without umpire, because it's not necessary anymore because the umpire is not enough good to analyze if the match is being hard, if somebody is losing time, penalize him with a warning. If both players are going the same way because you are playing a great point and you need to rest 40 seconds after the point, we don't need anymore umpire. That's my feeling. You know what I did? Maybe somebody‑‑ maybe nobody did at the ATP, but I went back to my matches, great matches, in Grand Slams, playing long rallies in big tournaments, and when you play like a 30 points, you know, 30‑shots rally, 40‑shots rally like final of Roland Garros, like final of Australia, like final of any good tournament, you know, how much time we rested? You have to see the third set of the US Open 2011 against Djokovic, and you tell me if the crowd was very happy about what happened in that set or not, and tell me if with this new rule that can happen again. Please.
Posted: 12.03.13 11:32. Post subject: An interview with RA..
An interview with RAFAEL NADAL (March 11, 2013)
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. Is it kind of a letdown? How close were you to the match when you found out? RAFAEL NADAL: I was ready. I was doing my fingers tape. Yes. That’s bad news, for sure, especially for the fans and for the opponent, and for Mayer, especially. I talked with him. It seemed like it’s nothing very, very bad. Just typical, you know, back problem just beginning when he was warming up his serve. But I really hope you know, physio says maybe in four days, five days will be ready. That’s most important thing that nothing serious.
Q. Did he say anything to you, I’m sorry, or tell you he couldn’t play, or did you guys not talk? RAFAEL NADAL: No, I am sorry, not. How he can say sorry, no? He in the worst position, so sorry for him especially. I talked with him just one minute, two minutes. No, he was with calm and no. Sad situation. Happened the same to him in São Paulo this year, so that’s negative and frustrating sometimes. But that’s the sport, and when you bring our body to the limit conditions, these kind of things can happen. No, I repeat: Important thing in the end is nothing serious, and he will be able to be playing very soon.
Q. Will you practice extra today? RAFAEL NADAL: I gonna go a little bit to the gym, I gonna go practice a little bit more later, but no match. I am not practicing a lot.
Q. I saw on social media you were maybe having a hit with Larry Ellison. I just want to know your thoughts on him and his contribution to the sport and this tournament. RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, is great, no? I played with him last year. I had the chance to play again yesterday a little bit with him. Always it’s a really honor. He’s improving a lot. His backhand improve especially a lot from last year, so that’s great. He changed to Babolat racquet, so… (Laughter.) No, this tournament is a really pleasure. It means a lot for me, and especially for the tennis, have somebody like Larry who is supporting like this our sport. I think is very important. He’s great, one of the most important person of the world. He loves tennis and support one of the best tournaments of the world. It’s great what he’s doing for tennis and especially for this tournament, no? I think this tournament I saw all around every day more and more people, more fans. For next year gonna be fantastic stadium. I think gonna be one of the best, best tournaments around the world without any doubt. The players can say thank you for all his support.
Q. Did you talk to about tennis or business… RAFAEL NADAL: He knows more tennis I think than me. (Smiling.) No, yeah, we talked a lot about tennis, about many things. Both of us, we have a passion for the water, no, and we were able to talk for a while and to practice and we have new relationship. I really enjoy and say thank you very much to him personally from me what he did for his hospitality, for everything. Great. Every time that I am coming back here, have somebody like him here is great. Thank you for everything.
Q. Did you feel the earthquake this morning? RAFAEL NADAL: I was very scared. First time in my life. Yeah.
Q. What were you doing at the time? RAFAEL NADAL: I was doing I was on the massage table preparing for my warmup. I think the massage table moves even worse more. (Smiling.) I really get I finish the earthquake, and I was my legs were like this. (Indicating wobbling.)
Q. It’s supposed to be very hot, 90, I don’t know, 32, 33. RAFAEL NADAL: Here?
Q. Yeah, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Do you like that? RAFAEL NADAL: No, not a secret that I love the hot. I hate the cold weather, no? For me, for my knee, for my foot, for everything is better when the conditions are warmer, no? Anyway, I love practicing and playing in days like today: no wind, fantastic weather, good, hot temperature. So I enjoy a lot the practice. Sorry I couldn’t play the match, but I have the day to keep doing things. Indian Wells is the right place to be.
Q. Just when the earthquake hit, how long did it take you to figure out since this was your first one what was going on? When you’re preparing and all of a sudden the ground starts shaking, how long did it take you to figure out it was an earthquake? RAFAEL NADAL: Probably in half second. (Laughter.)
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Posted: 15.03.13 22:31. Post subject: Какая статья на Gote..
Какая статья на Gotennis.ru !!!Скопирую сюда... Почему Надаль - не Джордан, или "Сделай это через равного тебе" 15 марта 2013, 19:09 | Автор: Олег Тарасенко, GoTennis.ru
На турнире в Индиан-Уэллсе состоялась, пожалуй, самая ожидаемая встреча последних месяцев. Рафаэль Надаль, наконец, сыграл против одного из "коллег" по "Большой четвёрке". Добился убедительной победы над Роджером Федерером – но при этом не развеял голоса скептиков. Порой приходится сожалеть, что великий теннисист не обладает характером другого легендарного спортсмена. Как-то Майкл Джордан, выступая в одном из регулярных матчей чемпионата НБА, забил красивый слэм-данк через невысокого разыгрывающего соперников. Пробегая обратно к своему кольцу, Майкл услышал: "Сделай это через равного тебе", громко сказанное одним из болельщиков. И действительно двухметровый Джордан был на голову выше малыша-защитника. Буквально в следующей атаке величайший баскетболист всех времён "поставил сверху" через огромного центрового Элдена Кэмпбелла, после чего, развернувшись к дерзкому болельщику, ослепительно улыбнулся и спросил: "Так подойдёт?" Рафаэль Надаль, возможно, не является величайшим теннисистом в истории, но после каждой его победы на южноамериканских грунтовых турнирах в 2013 году вся теннисная общественность регулярно уподоблялась тому самому дерзкому любителю баскетбола. Рафа взял титул в Сан-Паулу - а кто там был из соперников? Непонятно откуда взявшийся Мартин Алунд и возрастной Давид Налбандян? Превратил Николаса Альмагро и Давида Феррера в аккуратную смесь с грунтом Акапулько - да у них же ноги начинают подгибаться и руки трястись ещё до выхода на корт против Надаля! Впервые за одиннадцать месяцев сыграл на харде и победил Эрнеста Гулбиса, выдавшего победную серию из тринадцати матчей - да он, этот Гулбис, нестабильный и вообще мог и одолеть Рафу! Многоцветие доводов, аргументов и экспертных мнений - но во всех этих речах недоверия, по большому счёту, было всего лишь пять слов. Сделай. Это. Через. Равного. Тебе. Да пожалуйста! Семнадцать титулов "Большого шлема", триста две недели во главе рейтинга АТР, счёт 6:5 по очным встречам на харде и победа над Рафой ровно год назад в полуфинале того же Индиан-Уэллса. Это до матча, а после матча было 6/4, 6/2, семь из одиннадцати брейк-пойнтов и уже равный счёт по хардовым встречам - 6:6. Майкл в аналогичной ситуации уже медленно разворачивался к обидчику, а на лице распускалась белозубая улыбка, больше похожая на оскал крупного хищника: "Так подойдёт?" Нет, Надаль - определённо не Джордан. Не было ещё в истории тенниса игрока с таким чудовищным сплавом харизмы, гения и абсолютного эгоцентризма, как у Майкла. После матча Рафа рассыплется в похвалах побеждённому Федереру и отметит, что во втором сете швейцарец действовал несколько скованно, по всей видимости, из-за проблем со спиной, которые досаждали Роджеру ещё в матче с Вавринкой. "He's back!", - радостно возопят болельщики Рафы. "It's back!", - резонно возразят им фанаты Роджера. Действительно, больная спина. А Надаль, можно подумать, здоров, как терминатор, только что спущенный с конвейера? Что такое проблемы со спиной Федерера по сравнению с хронической травмой колена, выбивающей человека на семь месяцев? Жаль, Рафа - не Джордан. Будь Майкл на месте испанца, журналисты бы возносили до небес даже очередную победу над Хуаном Монако в PlayStation, а колени подгибались бы не только у Давида Феррера, но и у Маррея с (возможно) Джоковичем. Великий баскетболист имел совершенно несносный характер, который сумел поставить себе же на пользу. Великий теннисист сдержан, вежлив и дипломатичен. И этим пользуются все - за исключением, пожалуй, самого Рафы. Уже идут разговоры, что Федерер, дескать, был не тот, что раньше ("говорят, царь - не настоящий!"), да и вообще сейчас мировой теннис нужно измерять по сербской либо, на крайний случай, британской мерке. Где они были, эти эксперты, когда швейцарец пять сетов рубился с Марреем в полуфинале Australian Open? Надаль - известно где был. В поте лица трудился на тренировках, возвращая былую форму. Теперь испанца ждёт Томаш Бердых, для которого каждый задекларированный "выход на новый уровень" почему-то оборачивается классическим сизифовым камнем, и потом (в случае победы) - та самая сербская или британская мерка. Главное, чтобы выдержали колени… И снова, да уже прямо сейчас, слышатся всё те же голоса: "Сделай это через равного тебе". Нет, иногда приходится сожалеть, что Рафа - не Майкл. Что он никогда не прервёт пресс-конференцию, одной едкой репликой уничтожая несчастного, осмелившегося посягнуть на его неоспоримое величие. Что каждое поражение он не воспринимает как личный вызов, а победителя - как персонального врага. А может быть, так и надо? И в душе у Рафы, деликатно покусывающего очередной чемпионский кубок, когда-нибудь во весь свой гигантский рост поднимется его собственный "внутренний Джордан", расплываясь в ехидной улыбке. "Так подойдёт?"
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Posted: 16.03.13 03:54. Post subject: Лионель Месси в свое..
Лионель Месси в своем последнем интервью сказал следующие слова:
"I admire athletes from other sports. I like Kobe Bryant, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Del Potro... They are monsters." [tyc]dmire athletes from other sports. I like Kobe Bryant, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Del Potro... They are monsters." [tyc]
Он сказал, что восхищается такими атлетами, как Надаль, Федерер, Коби Брайант, Дель Потро (Дель Потро прошел по квоте соотечественников ). Приятно было это прочитать. Рафа болеет за Реал, Лионель всю жизнь играет за Барселону, но они оба ценят лучших в своем деле, так как знают, какой это труд.
Posted: 16.03.13 18:02. Post subject: Ольга Коп Любопытная..
Ольга Коп Любопытная статья Дело даже не в том, что раздаются голоса "Сделай это через равного себе", а в том что сам Рафа этого хочет и к этому стремится. Поскольку спортсмен и боец до кончиков пальцев. Он ведь всю жизнь ставит себе цели, порой кажущиеся недостижимыми, и упорно идет к этим целям. Вспомнить хотя бы заявление после победы на РГ-2005 о том, что главная мечта - Уимблдон. Кто только тогда у виска пальцем не крутил и не издевался. Потом АО и ЮСО, казавшиеся когда-то совершенно недосягаемыми. А то, что манер и повадок как у Джордана нет, так это слава богу.
Posted: 16.03.13 18:24. Post subject: RAFAEL NADAL PRESS C..
RAFAEL NADAL PRESS CONFERENCE
Indian Wells, USA 13.03.2013
R. NADAL/E. Gulbis 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
An interview with:
RAFAEL NADAL
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. You certainly held the crowd. Did they inspire you? That was an awful lot of noise for you out there today. RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, all the support of the crowd since I am coming back every place, you know, around every tournament that I played was amazing, and today was not an exception. I just can say thank you very much all the fans. You know, in the tough moments like I had, they are very important. And, you know, in my coming back having matches like today and having matches that I am with some troubles like I had in Chile and Brazil and lot of days and the support, the feeling that you have a lot of people with you around is very important. That's, you know, give to me a lot of energy.
Q. As happens a lot in your matches on a lot of the intense points, you were grunting pretty loud. Can you talk about just why you grunt? RAFAEL NADAL: Sorry?
Q. Just a general question about that. RAFAEL NADAL: (Through translation.) During the point?
Q. Yeah. I know you do it a lot. RAFAEL NADAL: (Shrugging.) I cannot answer. I didn't know.
Q. You don't know you're grunting? RAFAEL NADAL: That's the first time I heard that my life.
Q. You don't think you're grunting? RAFAEL NADAL: I cannot say I don't think. The only thing I can say is I don't feel it. I didn't have that feeling never, so it's first time that somebody told me that. For sure, if I did, you know, I didn't because I wanted.
Q. First off, nice shirt. RAFAEL NADAL: You like? Golf.
Q. Some of your fans were wondering why you didn't hit to your forehand more often, because sometimes he's shaky on his forehand. You seemed to go to his backhand a lot. RAFAEL NADAL: I did in the last three games, so that's give me the match. But, yeah, it's true. I had to change it a little bit more directions. Today my movements weren't perfect, you know. I felt for moments that playing against his backhand I had I know it's not the right thing, because to play against a player like Ernests, the right thing to do, in my opinion, is play against his backhand and change to his forehand quick, no?
But, yeah, today I didn't have legs for that. Changing direction from behind not from side is much more difficult, so I felt more comfortable with my movements playing against his backhand. I felt if I changed directions I had to run more, too. I didn't want that today.
Q. After the first set, how would you assess your level of play? How is your knee playing? RAFAEL NADAL: I said before the tournament my knee some days good, some days not that good. Today so so. But I fighted. I fighted every ball. I tried my best in every moment. I know I cannot go to some balls that in the past I went today, but I will do it in the future. So win matches in days like today are more important that ever for me, and very happy about what I did on court. Happy about the attitude. With all the problems I was able to keep being focused and keep winning.
Today every victory is very important to me, and I really appreciate every moment and every victory.
Q. You're going to be playing Roger for the first time before the semis and finals since the first time you guys played in Miami. Can you talk a little bit about what you remember from that match in 2004? RAFAEL NADAL: Well, since that moment was my best match ever. Feels like happened 100 years before. (Smiling.) We played that much times after that. Well, tomorrow will be a nice match. Always play against Roger is a pleasure. This match arrives early for me, too early to, you know, to go to the match with the feeling that I can play equal conditions than him. I think I am not that level today, but I gonna try, as I do always. I gonna try to enjoy the match. I'm going to try to play well and, you know, make the match positive for me with any result. I am here in Indian Wells in quarterfinals. Two weeks ago I didn't know if I would be able to be here. Being in quarterfinals is a fantastic result for me, and we'll see. It will be very difficult tomorrow for me.
Q. I just wonder how encouraged you are at your level here so far. You didn't know you were going to play on hard court or how you were going to feel, but how encouraged are you by what you've done so far in this tournament? RAFAEL NADAL: For tomorrow or in general?
Q. Your level of encouragement about what you have done far. RAFAEL NADAL: I need to keep doing. I need time and I need matches more on clay than hard. Be in quarterfinals is great. Be able to be here for, you know, seven days, ten days and play, practice with all the best players here with professional players is positive for me. That's why I am here. I didn't want to go back home and stay one month and a half before Monte Carlo at home. I am tired to be at home and waiting for the competition and watching the competition and the matches, watching competition on the television.
So I am here, and I think any result tomorrow will be a positive week for me. That's what I have to say and that's what I have to think, because I think that's the right thing.
Q. If you're not moving the way you want to, did you think about ending points more quickly, or is it because you like to set up points usually that it's hard to force yourself to do that? RAFAEL NADAL: To end the points quickly you have to move quick, because if you don't take the ball early you cannot finish the point early. You cannot pretend to you know, if you're not moving quick you cannot take the ball inside the court, because the ball comes quick and you have to be able to go against the ball very quick. If I am playing with my conditions today, for me it's easier to play one, two meters behind the baseline because I can move myself with a little bit more time. I have to play with electric movements like when I'm 100% well and I am able to play inside.
But seriously, tomorrow I don't have much more to say than I have to play aggressive. I have to play aggressive to enjoy the match. If not, the match not gonna be good fun for me. I always play one way against Roger, or similar, not always the same, but tomorrow will be not easy to do this as I do all the time, because I need to move quick, especially on hard to do this kind of game, no?
I don't know if I am ready to do it, but we'll see how I wake up tomorrow. We'll see how I feel on court tomorrow. I gonna try my best in every moment.
Q. What do you do for your knee right after the match is finished in terms of treatment? RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I have to put ice every day after the practice and after the match, and I do a lot of things with my physio. We are trying to put the quadriceps very powerful, but it's very difficult sometimes when you have pain to do it because you cannot do the exercises. That's the real thing, no? We are trying to do it every, every day, even if I have pain, to create power in my quadriceps. But some days I'm not able to do it. That's negative. So we're trying to find ways to have more power every day and to be able to compete every day with the best conditions possible.
Q. Would you say tonight was the most dramatic match you have played since you have been back, most suspense and drama and tension? RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. Every match since I come back every match is emotional for me, every match is important. Tonight was an important match. But for me was more important the semifinals of Acapulco because that give me the chance to win the tournament. Today I'm very fine of that, especially in this kind of tournament. If I have to say about tension, my feeling was a little bit more, you know, tension match in semifinals of Acapulco against Almagro for what means to me, and because it was on a surface that I have a little bit more control of the situation. But was a good match. Was emotional match. This kind of victories give me confidence, give me positive energy. I enjoy.
Posted: 16.03.13 18:27. Post subject: An interview with RA..
An interview with RAFAEL NADAL (March 14, 2013)
Mar 15
NADAL def. R. Federer 6‑4, 6‑2
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. That was some occasion, but perhaps not quite the match we were anticipating. How did you read it?
RAFAEL NADAL: I played great the first set. I played a fantastic first set, in my opinion. The second set was strange. The second set I think Roger didn’t fight as usual. Probably he had some problems and he didn’t feel enough comfortable to keep fighting. But for myself I have to take the first set. The first set was a good match, my opinion. Both of us tried to play our best. I played much better than yesterday. My movements today were much, much better than what used to be yesterday, so very happy for that ‑ especially after a long match yesterday, to be able to compete well next day. What to say? Two weeks ago I didn’t know if I can be here, and tomorrow I will be in semifinals here. A lot of positive energy, and very happy.
Q. Can you talk for a minute about how it felt walking out there? You hadn’t been there for a while against Roger; it was a packed crowd. Did you have different or strange emotions walking out? How did it feel for you?
RAFAEL NADAL: In the end, you miss these moments this whole time, but play against Roger in any moment in any situation is special for what means this kind of matches, for what happened in the past, you know. All very, very important matches against him for our careers, you know. This classic match is always special and means a lot to me to go on court to play against Roger.
Q. You moved very well today. Do your knees feel stronger as this tournament is going on? Do you have any more worries about your knees right now?
RAFAEL NADAL: You know, is hard for me because you are asking me that every day and I am having an incredible results. It’s not easy for me to talk about that, seriously.
Q. Obviously after you beat Ferrer in Acapulco people said you’re back. Now you seem back at full strength and now you’re in a semifinals of a Masters. It seems to give evidence that you’re getting back to where you were before the seven months off. Do you agree with that? Do you think you’re close to all the way back?
RAFAEL NADAL: I am here so I am back on the tour. That’s the most important thing, no? I go day by day as I did all my life, and that’s not gonna change. If the things are not working well, so change, but the things are working well don’t change, no? I go match by match, practice by practice, and I try my best in every moment. We’ll see. I said you know, one of the first interviews after we decide to come back on the tour, I think I didn’t forget my tennis. I didn’t forget my tennis in seven months. Important thing is be healthy. And if that happens and I’m able to practice as much as I can, as much as I want, probably that the comeback will be a little bit less difficult, no? But is a big surprise for me have these results. That’s the true. Is for me a big surprise because I really was not able to practice a lot. I was able to practice just a little before the comeback. It’s true that playing on clay give me a lot of positive feelings, but even playing on clay tournaments I didn’t practice a lot before every tournament. Things go well. I am happy for that. Is a big surprise for me, but I just can say thank you. Q. You have always spoken in such glowing terms of your friendship and the fact that Roger, you say, is the greatest player in tennis history. But in some ways does it surprise you when you look at the head‑to‑head record between the two of you that there is such a wide gap?
RAFAEL NADAL: That just a fact at the end. Is a positive fact for me, but that doesn’t change that he has much more tournament victories than me. He has more Grand Slams than me. In Masters 1000s we are close. I don’t know.
THE MODERATOR: Same.
RAFAEL NADAL: Same? So more than close. (Laughing.) So that means his career the day of today is better than my one, and that’s the real thing. And if I think that I am better than him because I beat him I think 19 against 10, something like this, I will be very stupid and very arrogant. I think this is not the case. (Smiling).
Q. When you miss something that you love for so long, do you appreciate it more when you come back? Can you talk about how much?
RAFAEL NADAL: I say the other day, no, the feeling just going on court and receive all the support that I am receiving every place that I am playing is something fantastic and amazing.
Probably when you are playing and playing every week, you know, that became something usual and normal, no? But when you are out for seven months and I come back and I had the feeling, that special feeling playing in clay court seen in Latin America, all the support that I had every time when I went on court and all the stadiums 100% full every day, every match, and the full support of the crowd is just amazing. Be back in Indian Wells I always said is one of my favorite tournaments without any doubt. I really enjoy it always play here. I don’t know how many semifinals I am in a row here in this tournament.
Q. Eight, nine.
RAFAEL NADAL: 2006? Probably since 2006. So playing six, eight semifinals in a row in a hardcourt tournament, Masters 1000 when the best players of the world are playing. When you have tough matches since the first round, it’s amazing result for me.
Q. Congratulations. You really played well tonight. At the end of the match when you and Roger came to shake hands, it seemed like there were some words exchanged. Did he let you know anything how he was feeling? It seemed like there was something more than just a handshake. Did he say anything about how he felt?
RAFAEL NADAL: No. He told me he’s happy that I’m back. He just congratulate me and ask him for his back. He told me, No, I’m fine.
Q. So you asked him?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah. That’s it.
Q. Outside of your knee, given that you have had very, very few bad loss in seven, eight years, why are you surprised when you’re successful? Given that you have hardly had any bad losses since maybe 2005, maybe a few, outside of the knee, why are you surprised when you have success and you play well?
RAFAEL NADAL: Today?
Q. Any day. Because you’ll often say I’m surprised to be in this position or…
RAFAEL NADAL: I never say I’m surprised to be in position. For example, last year I practice amazing well and I start the season playing fantastic in every tournament. But this year the situation is completely different. I was outside of the competition for seven months. Is not the case that during these seven months I was able to practice a lot. I practice very little. I am back. I played one final, two titles, one other semifinals. If I’m not surprised it’s because I consider myself very good, and this is not the case. (Smiling.) I consider myself another player that had a lot of success during the last eight years, but that doesn’t mean that I gonna have in the next year another success. So especially when I’m coming from tricky situation.
Q. I just wondered if you still regarded Roger as your No. 1 adversary, No. 1 challenge.
RAFAEL NADAL: Today?
Q. No, in general.
RAFAEL NADAL: In general. But today, the day of today my No. 1 adversary?
Q. Yeah.
RAFAEL NADAL: Neil, today I cannot talk about adversaries. I can talk about myself. I am seriously not competing against nobody in particular today. I am competing about be 100% healthy another time and enjoy tennis what that’s happening today, another time. And then I’m not sure how the things gonna go in the next few months. Hopefully well. But if the things goes well and I am able to practice every tournament from here to Wimbledon, we’ll see if I am able to talk about which kind of rivals I will have. Today I cannot say. I cannot say I put myself in the group of top 4, group of top 8, or the group of top 15, because I don’t know what’s gonna happen in the next month.
Q. Apart from getting the win tonight, what pleased you most about your performance, and can you talk about your next opponent?
RAFAEL NADAL: What pleased me most was my movement tonight was much better than yesterday. I played longer than yesterday. I had good feeling on my forehand, even if I had few mistakes with my backhand in the second set. The match became a little bit strange in the second. But in the first set I played very well with my backhand. That give a lot of points for me in the final of Acapulco. Sometimes today I am not able to play all the shots with my forehand that I used to be because I am not that fast yet to do it. That’s why the backhand today is very important for my game. So if I am able to hit well, like I did in the first set, you know, a lot of opportunities open for me in my game because I can hit cross. If my cross backhand goes close to the line then I have the rest of the court for my forehand, and that’s a big advantage. Today that makes a big difference in my game.
Q. Can you talk about the next round against Tomas?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, sorry. Yeah, he’s playing better and better every year. He played final in Marseilles, final in Dubai, and now he’s semifinals here without losing a set. He’s doing great. We’ll see. I gonna try my best. I gonna try to keep playing well and try to fight as I did today, as I did yesterday, and we’ll see if I am able to compete well and enjoy another match. Every match is fantastic for me to have the chance to keep playing, and I gonna enjoy the match against another top, top player. Will be another important test for me, and I gonna enjoy.
Posted: 17.03.13 21:07. Post subject: An interview with RA..
An interview with RAFAEL NADAL (March 16, 2013)
R. NADAL/T. Berdych 6 4, 7 5
THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. During the Australian Open when you were sidelined, if someone said to you that in the warmup clay tournaments you played you would do extremely well and then come here on hard court and beat Roger in straight sets and Berdych and then reach the finals, what would you say to them?
RAFAEL NADAL: You never know what’s going in on in the future, no, but sure is something that the things seem always almost impossible until the things are done. But it’s very, very difficult to imagine something like this. But here we are today, and very happy about all what happened the last month, especially last three weeks. I’m doing probably one of my best two tournaments since seven months. Joking. (Smiling.) Since long time, I think. Is not easy coming back after an important injury after seven months without playing a tournament and be back and winning against three top 10s like David, like David Ferrer, like today against Berdych, the other day against Roger, and to win against Almagro, clay court specialist in Acapulco. So coming back is certainly something amazing for me, totally unexpected, and I received more support than ever from the crowd every place that I played. That’s always a very, very special feeling. Thank you very much, all the people. I am enjoying, sure. Every match means a lot to me. Every time I am able to come back on court and play these kind of matches makes me very happy.
Q. When you come back after so long off, what is the most difficult thing to get back at a high level?
RAFAEL NADAL: Always, you know, when you are out for a long period of time, is difficult to come back and to understand how to win the points another time, how to manage the important situations. For example, you have a point that you really have to win, you know, like a break point against, like a break point on your favor, and when you are playing tournaments every week and when you are on confidence, you know, even you can change your tactic for a moment. You have your routines and you know what to do in every moment and you have a pre strategy. You have to remember all these kind of things. Sure, physical performance is impossible to be 100%, because even if you practiced a lot at home that was not my case you need to compete to feel 100% ready. You need to compete to feel quick, to feel you know, recover the right vision of the points and the nice reaction in every moment. Everything is new. Even if I had a lot of success the last weeks for example, today I was very nervous at the end of the match to close the match, and was lucky that my serve worked amazing in the last game in important moments. But, you know, there are some things that you need to adjust, and victories like today, like the other day, helps you a lot for the confidence and to remember, you know, all the things that you have to do in every moment.
Q. Last week when you arrived here you said you didn’t think you could win the title. What do you think now?
RAFAEL NADAL: I cannot still saying these kind of things after a lot of success that I had, but any opponent tomorrow will be a very difficult opponent. They are playing fantastic. Djokovic didn’t lose a match this year, so he’s amazing what he’s doing. And Del Potro is coming fantastically well, winning in Rotterdam, playing very good tournament in Dubai, and now being in semifinals here. So they are playing great, and going to be a very difficult final for me. But is true, I cannot say another thing. I don’t have nothing to lose after seven months. I did much more than what I dreamed. Everything is to win, and any result will be a fantastic week for me, a fantastic tournament. I gonna go on court and enjoy the match and try my best in every moment, as I do usually trying to win, but with good calm that is not the same than when I am playing and when I am fighting for everything. Today I am just here, and for me is a present to be here.
Q. If you could just talk briefly about how much you think your confidence has improved since I guess in the final against Zeballos? And then also sort of a separate question about do you think the conditions here the high kicking balls off the court do you think this is as uncomfortable a hard court for you as it is anywhere in the world?
RAFAEL NADAL: The confidence is normal. Even if you didn’t have an injury and you start a season, when you are winning matches, when you are winning against important opponents and you’re winning tournaments, your confidence is improving always. That’s not just for me. That’s for everybody, no? When we have to realize which court is good for me, which court is not good for me, at the end we just have to go and watch the results. That’s just statistics. In a tournament that I played four finals in the last eight years and I played four more semifinals, is a fantastic tournament, no? The conditions adapt very well to my game. That’s the real thing. I feel like home. I feel very comfortable in this tournament. I feel very happy when I am here. Is more relaxing tournament than other ones, and probably that’s give me a positive feeling.
Q. Two things: Can you talk more about the serve? You won a lot of big points with it today. And number two, you’ve played Novak 33 times. If you do play him in the final, is it everything new or can you reflect back on all the other matches?
RAFAEL NADAL: The serve was to compete against the best players, even when I was at my 100% physically running to every ball, playing in these kind of surfaces, if my serve was not working minimum well, is very difficult to beat against these kind of players. Today more than ever is very important. My serve worked well. I don’t know the percentage of the first serves, but I think it was quite positive. And the most important thing in important moments if we forget about that double fault in the break point, the 4 3 for the rest of the important moments my serve worked great. That’s very, very important. And against Djokovic nothing is new, no? We played a lot of times and we know each other very well. But is another history for me, not for him. He didn’t stop. But for me is, yeah, new, and for me gonna be a final match. At the end, I don’t want to say test because test was today, test was two days ago, and I felt in good conditions. But, you know, always special to play against Djokovic. I don’t know if he’s gonna win today, but any opponent will be very hard.
Q. Yesterday in a TV interview, Lionel Messi said that he admires Kobe Bryant and four tennis players: Djokovic, Federer, Del Potro, and you. Have you met Messi, and who do you admire outside tennis?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I have met Messi in Barcelona but long time ago. I admire a lot of people outside tennis, no, especially I admire the people who really are, you know, helping the others in the right way, taking his time to take the people who really needs and the good people. If we are talking about sports, Messi, Cristiano are amazing what they are doing. This rivalry is, you know, brings the football to another level in my opinion. Every season they are improving his numbers. That’s something amazing. I love for sure a lot of Spanish sportsmen that they have a lot of success for the last couple of years. If we talk about golf, well, Sergio Garcia is doing well another time. He is playing fantastic after not an easy past years for him. For sure, always in golf Tiger Woods, his eyes, mentality when he’s playing, when he’s competing is, you know, he’s very, very difficult to say I cannot admire this mentality on a golf course and on the competition, no? He really, you know, is focused on what he is doing, and he really believes that he gonna make the right shot in important moment. That’s something. His determination in important moments is something difficult to have, and he has. I admire that a lot.
Q. You had battled it out in the second set. How important was it to make sure it didn’t go to a third?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, if I was on the third, I was on court. I gonna still be on court already fighting, no? But I play my best game of the match in the 5 3, playing very aggressive, having two very, very good points with my forehand down the line. So that was very important, no? And for sure especially have the break and the game with double fault, be able to forget that and be able to be focused on the next game, on the first point of the next game, and finally do the right things to be back on the set was decisive, because for the other was a hard moment, in my opinion.
Posted: 17.03.13 21:25. Post subject: Divine Invention Sa..
Divine Invention
Saturday, March 16, 2013
by Steve Tignor
INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—Saturday was a great day to watch tennis at the BNP Paribas Open, but a confounding one for anyone trying to create a coherent storyline about the state of the men's game.
In the first semifinal here, Rafael Nadal beat Tomas Berdych to reach the final of the first hard-court event that he has played in nearly a year. As Rafa made his seemingly inevitable way back from 3-5 in the second set to close it out, the words “same as it ever was” began circling through my head. Even after all of that time away, Rafa, and by extension the Big 4, still reigned supreme, while Berdych, and by extension the second-tier, were doomed to eternal failure in the clutch.
The words were still lodged in my head a few hours later, as the second semifinal, between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro, reached the halfway point of its final set. By that stage the world No. 1, after a few fits and starts, was doing what we expected him to do: Leading del Potro 3-0, and running the big man ragged in the process.
But just when all appeared right and normal in the ATP, when a doubled-over del Potro looked ready to depart with honor, and a confident Djokovic appeared ready to take his place in what many people here were calling a “dream final” against Rafa, something happened. Something very strange happened. Was it, perhaps, divine intervention? After all, from Rome to Indian Wells, Argentines are getting used to having their prayers answered this week.
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“It’s very, very difficult to imagine something like this,” Rafael Nadal said after his win this afternoon, “but here were are today.”
Did anyone imagine that Rafa would reach the final in Indian Wells after so much time away, and so much trepidation about hard courts? I did, actually; or at least I picked him to make it to Sunday in my preview of the tournament. I don’t usually mention when my predictions turn out to be right, because then I would be honor-bound to tell you when they turned out to be wrong, and there’s only so much time in the day.
I mention it because I don’t think it should be that surprising to see Nadal play this well or go this far here. Federer and Djokovic each said much the same thing this week; today, after losing to Rafa, Berdych was asked if the Spaniard's game had “changed in any way”—his answer was a definitive, “No.”
Coming in, Rafa had played what by his own account was some of the best clay-court tennis of his life—and by extension anyone’s life—in blitzing David Ferrer in the final in Acapulco. And while this event is played on a hard surface, it's one where, as Rafa said today, “the conditions adapt very well to my game.”
“I feel like home,” he said of Indian Wells and the desert climate. “I feel very happy when I'm here. Is more relaxing tournament than other ones, and probably that gives me a positive feeling.”
I can remember watching Nadal arrive here in a slump in 2007 and win the tournament; and even after his “accidental” defeat to Ivan Ljubicic in the 2010 semis, he came away feeling good about his play and his progress. He knew what he was talking about: Rafa would win the next three Grand Slams. If Monte Carlo is the place where Rafa returns to dominance, Indian Wells is often where he starts feeling good about his year.
That said, today was the best we’ve seen of him in Indian Wells. His dive-bombing topspin was back, and it gave even the 6’5” Berdych fits. Nadal had his crosscourt backhand working, and he was a step and a thought ahead of Berdych on all of the big points. And, as Nadal said, his “serve worked amazing in the last game.” He fended off three break points at 6-5 in the second set, all with service winners. As for his returns, while he stood far back in the court, it was a tactical decision. From there he could generate the huge looping lefty topspin that he knows the Czech doesn’t like. The more the wind did with the ball along the way, the better.
But what was most Rafa-like was the way he responded when Berdych went up 5-3 in the second set. From that point on, the two players’ games went in opposite directions—Berdych was as bad as Rafa was good.
“The biggest difference" in the match, Berdych said, "was in the second set when it was 5-3. [After that], I served only one first serve, and he served only one second serve.”
Nadal talked today about the mental challenges of coming back. He said the biggest difference is that when you’re playing tournaments regularly, you’re so dialed in that you don’t have to stick to your routine tactics. You’re flexible enough to change them up to suit the moment. You’re also used to having things go wrong over the course of a match, so you tend to recover from adversity quickly. So it makes sense that Rafa was especially happy with the way he played from 3-5 down in the second set.
“To be able to forget [getting broken],” he said, “and be able to be focused on the next game, on the first point of the next game, and finally do the right things to [get] back in the set, was decisive.”
“I play my best game of the match at 3-5, playing very aggressive, have two very, very good points with my forehand down the line.”
Posted: 18.03.13 17:44. Post subject: An interview with RA..
An interview with RAFAEL NADAL (March 17, 2013)
R. Nadal/J M Del Potro 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
Q. Congratulations. Is it one of the most memorable wins of your career?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don’t know, no? But it is an emotional one, a very emotional one, yes. A lot of things happened last seven months, to be back here and to have this very heavy trophy with me is amazing, no? I am winning three straight top 10s, beating the top 5 of the world and No. 4 and not be in the top 4 and you play quarterfinals, no? So beating three top 10, three very important players, and win title like this is just something unbelievable for me. Very, very happy and very emotional. When, you know, when you have one comeback like I’m having is, you know, you remember all the low things, lower moments that you had during this seven months, doubts and all these things. Hopefully I passed, and just can remember all the people that really helped me a lot during all this time.
Q. It looked like even in the second set when he was ahead you didn’t have too many doubts that you could actually come back into the match, and that you were confident enough that you changed strategy a little to come away with the win, no?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I was in tough situation, because after starting the match 3‑0 playing fantastic in my opinion, I had big chance for 4‑0 and then I had good chance for 4‑1.
So I lost all of these opportunities, important ones for me. So I got a little bit ‑‑ I lost a little bit my calm, I think, and then I started to play with ‑‑ I didn’t choose right the shots to change against his forehand, you know, to go inside the court. I think I was wrong in strategy for moments, something that for me is not usual, because normally I can have mistakes with the shots but with the tactics and the way how I have to manage the points, how I have to play the points, normally I am right. But, you know, I felt like he started to play more aggressive and I lost a little bit the way how to win the points, no? Had the break back in the second to give me a lot of confidence, and I was able to calm myself a little bit, to think, calm, to open my mind, and think what I needed to do to win the second set.
And I was able to play against his backhand and wait for right moment to change directions my ball. I try to play, put the match in a little bit slower rhythm and wait for the right moments to go for the point and worked well. Del Potro is a fantastic player, so it’s not easy to change the dynamic of the match like this. I’m very happy.
Q. When you returned on clay your expectations were at a different level, but coming onto this surface ‑ I know you’ve talked about it many times how tough it is ‑ does that make this week a very big one for you to actually prove to yourself that on this surface you can win, as well?
RAFAEL NADAL: I know. I won in the past, right?
Q. But at this particular stage of your…
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I don’t have a lot of doubts that if I am healthy and if I am right I have a chance to win on these surfaces. When last year you are 4‑2 in the fifth of Australian Open 30‑15, when you are here losing in semifinals, when you are playing semifinals of Miami, you are there. You are in the semifinals and you are playing finals. Why you cannot win titles? That’s the real thing, because to be in that semifinal you have to win against players who are probably the same level that players who you will meet in the final, no? So it’s something that I don’t have doubts, but after you have to win, and I didn’t for the last couple of years. But is true I played a lot of finals, no? My results on hard I think were great the last couple of years, but remain the title, and now I did. That’s makes emotional week for me. Very important victory for me, winning, like I say before, against the best players of the world on a surface that is good for them. Seriously, it’s impossible to have better comeback, no? Happy for everything.
Q. What’s your schedule between now and the French Open? After this result, do you think you’ll be able to sort of go into Monte‑Carlo ‑ I presume that’s your next event ‑ feeling the same way that you felt the last five, seven years going into Monte‑Carlo?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don’t know which feeling was last seven years or eight years. (Smiling.)
I tried my best every year, and I arrived there thinking that I have to play my best tennis if I want to have any chance. I never had a different feeling. No, no, for me clay don’t mean victory. Clay mean this is the surface that I love to play and I had a great success in the past, but every year is a different year. Every year I have to improve. Every year I have to do different things if I want to keep winning on clay. And I try to do my best and I try to do different things and be better player every year to have the chance to make good results, no? So I’m going to go to Monte‑Carlo with the same expectations than ever, than always, and I gonna try my best to arrive there healthy and in good shape playing well.
Q. How about Barcelona? Madrid?
RAFAEL NADAL: That’s my schedule, the four obligatories and Barcelona. That’s my schedule. I go week by week since I came back. For example, I cannot go to Miami. I’m very sad for that. I’m very sorry for the organization of the tournament and I’m very sorry for the fans, but we never thought we’d be able to play all matches possible since I came back. The doctors recommend me to be back home for a few weeks and rest a little bit and keep practicing the right way. You know, I need more power on the left leg quadriceps, so I need to keep working hard. The competition is hard for the body, so after four fantastic weeks I can’t go to Miami. I need to prepare and rest for the next one.
Q. You mentioned that winning this tournament brought to your mind all the lower moments. Could you take a moment and share one or two of the times when it was really difficult for you when you were off the circuit?
RAFAEL NADAL: In terms of competition, the worst was for the Olympics, when I had to take position to not go to Olympics. In terms of the injury last couple of months because I worked a lot, I tried different treatments, and when you feel that you are doing everything and the results are not being very satisfactory, you know, you go down a little bit, no? Is normal. Is not an injury, you know, the doubt when and where you will be able to be back on a tennis tournament is hard, no? And when you are there and wake up every morning and test yourself and the test is negative, you know, it’s not the right feeling, that’s not nice. (Smiling.)
Q. Was there one thing that kept you going more than anything else while you were out?
RAFAEL NADAL: Sorry?
Q. Was there one sort of thought or hope that kept you believing more than anything while you were out injured? Was it the competition or was it…
RAFAEL NADAL: I like the tennis. I love the sport. So I love sport in general. I love to practice the sport. I love the competition. Even if I don’t have the chance to play tennis, I like to play football. I like to play different sports that for the last seven months I didn’t. So is not only a thing about tennis. Is thing about my life, and my life is very close to sport in general. I was not able to do nothing of things, no one thing that I really loved to do it. I love to practice sport, move my body, and only sport that I was able to do it was golf, that I love, but I really love the movement of sports. I miss the feeling to go on a big stadium with all people, all this atmosphere that makes you feel something different. And the feeling of victory, the feeling of competition, this adrenaline in life, there is much more important things than tennis. That’s only game. But probably the feeling that you have when you are in a competition, when you are winning a match, when you are winning a tournament, this adrenaline, this feeling on that moment is very difficult to find outside of this, no?
Q. Can you talk about all the momentum changes in this match? I mean, you won the first three games; he won nine of the next eleven games. You won five straight. Talk about what you think made things change so much.
RAFAEL NADAL: I didn’t say in the first answer? I don’t know. But I said I think I started the match playing great, very aggressive, making the right things to be in control of the point. Then I think Del Potro start to play more aggressive and I lost a little bit my calm. I didn’t make the right thing because I tried to change my direction against his forehand with my forehand in not the right ‑‑ in not a favorable position. So that produces more mistakes than usual. For that reason, I was not able to keep winning games. He was playing great. He was playing solid. I was playing with more mistakes and no chances. Then I was lucky to have the break back in the second set because the first game of the second set was struggle for me. Four mistakes with my forehand, and the last ‑‑ when I had the break back in the second everything changed. I found the way to win points another time, to be comfortable when the ball is in the middle of the point, know how to play. And after that break, in my opinion, I played the right tactic another time. I waited for the right moment to change against his forehand.
Q. You said on TV that you were surprised by the quality of your movement today.
RAFAEL NADAL: I was.
Q. Can you confirm?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah. (Laughter.) I was.
Q. Do you play with painkiller?
RAFAEL NADAL: With pain?
Q. Killer.
RAFAEL NADAL: What’s painkiller?
Q. Pills.
RAFAEL NADAL: (Through translation. Painkiller. Anti‑inflammatories?
Q. No, no.
RAFAEL NADAL: Anti‑inflammatories? Same? (Through translation.)
I play with anti‑inflammatories every day. I don’t know if that’s the same as painkiller. I don’t know in English. You know what anti‑inflammatory is?
Q. Yeah, of course.
RAFAEL NADAL: So I take that every night before the match since I came back. Hopefully I can play without that in short period of time.
Q. During your celebration you ran over to Larry. Why did you feel it was necessary to go to Larry Ellison and shake his hand? Can you talk about jumping on the low partition when you celebrated with your team? Your knees looked very healthy.
RAFAEL NADAL: With Larry I think it’s very important to have someone like him supporting the sport. We just can say thank you very much to him for all the things that he’s doing for the sport. He’s very important to have, very important persons like him who really love tennis and who really show his passion for our sport and who is ready to convert this tournament in one of the best tournaments of the world. The tournament already is one of the best. But with these new things that gonna happen for next year and for the coming years, probably will become, without any doubt, one of the best tournaments of the world. Personally, I have a relationship with him and he supported me a lot. Just say thanks to him personally for everything that he did during last two weeks for me and for the support that I receive from him for always.
Posted: 18.03.13 19:14. Post subject: Великолепная статья ..
Великолепная статья Стива Тиньора
The Return of the Persistents
MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013 /BY STEVE TIGNOR
INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.—Last spring, as they gained momentum through the clay season, I began to refer to Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova together as the Persistents. That trait, which they obviously share, paid off in Roland Garros titles for both of them. But it didn’t pay off forever. Neither would win another tournament all year.
Sunday, though, the Persistents, like two sides of the same penny—a good one, not a bad one—rolled back up and spun around, shiny and bright, at our feet in Indian Wells. Sharapova won her first title since Paris; Nadal won his most important. They are, at least on the surface, stone-cold opposites. He’s Mediterranean fire; she’s Siberian ice. She never lets her guard down; he never puts his up. He wins with innocent passion; she wins with ruthless professionalism. But they have one thing in common: They keep getting back up.
Yesterday Nadal and Sharapova ended up in the same spot, in the winner's circle again, smiling like little kids, their fierce selves left behind for a few minutes. They held the same strange, abstract and, as Nadal said, “very heavy” BNP Paribas winner’s trophy—Rafa struggled to find a place to bite his, Maria struggled to pick hers up. That’s how the Persistents’ week ended, but you get the feeling their seasons have just begun.
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“When you have one comeback like I’m having,” Rafael Nadal said after his three-set, near-epic win over Juan Martin del Potro, “you remember all the low things, lower moments that you had during this seven months, doubts and all these things. So beating three Top 10 players and winning a title like this is just something unbelievable for me. Very, very happy, and very emotional.”
When have we heard this before from Rafa? The better question may be: When haven’t we heard this before? He said something similar after he won his first French Open, in 2005; the previous year, he had been unable to play the tournament because of a foot injury. He said it again when he won in Paris in 2006; that winter, he had been forced to miss the Australian Open. He said it through his tears at Roland Garros in 2010, while remembering the injuries that had forced him to withdraw from Wimbledon the year before. Even last season, when he jumped into the stands at the French Open after beating Novak Djokovic, the feeling was the same. Rafa embraced his uncle Toni, and they celebrated the end of a year-long losing streak to his nemesis in Grand Slam finals. Those had also been low moments for Nadal.
Usually, as you can see, Rafa saves these words and feelings for Paris. The French Open, with its friendly red clay, is his customary reward after his annual bout of that favorite word of his: “suffering.” But this year, after his longest spell of suffering yet, he had the same redemptive experience two months earlier, at Indian Wells. The hard surface here is less friendly to his game and his knees, but the emotion made sense anyway. Nadal has taken to calling this event a home away from home, a place where he typically begins to feel good about his game again, a tournament that he might have skipped this year if he didn’t like it so much.
This is the pattern of Nadal’s career, and how his competitive psyche works. He must fall to get up. A stoic and realist with a wide streak of self-doubt, he distrusts easy success and thrives when he feels oppressed, when he must prove something to himself again.
Nadal proved it in vintage fashion against del Potro on Sunday. Even within this match, he had to rebound from some low moments. Nadal was down a set and a break, and he looked distinctly like the second best player on the court for much of the day. He spent many rallies scrambling back near the linesmen, spinning around desperately, and often futilely, to try to get in position for del Potro’s next bullet forehand. When Rafa did get a chance to attack, he pulled the trigger too early and made errors.
“I lost a little bit of my calm,” Nadal said. “I didn’t choose the right shots...I think I was wrong in strategy, something that for me is unusual. I can have mistakes with the shots, but how I have to manage the points, normally I am right.”
We know Nadal wins with emotion. But his words here point to the intelligence of his game, the amount of thought that goes into it, something that isn’t always appreciated. This week I was struck, seeing Nadal in practice a few times, by how much technical talk there was between Rafa and his coach, Francisco Roig (Toni Nadal doesn't travel to Indian Wells). They would argue, in animated, rapid-fire fashion, over the angle that Rafa should use to hit a certain shot, and try over and over again to find the right stance and balance for his strokes. Even this morning, a couple of hours before the final, they were chattering about his forehand while Nadal warmed up inside the stadium. As Rafa tried to walk off the court, Roig pulled him back for one last demonstration of the motion he wanted. The tinkering never seems to end with Nadal, and there's more than just strength and willpower in those shots.
The joy that Nadal finds in winning never seems to end, or diminish, either. After the final point of his 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win, Rafa dove to his knees and saluted the crowd and the sky and maybe the sun with an abandon and intensity that reminded me of his celebration after his U.S. Open win in 2010. After a quick salute to the Sun King of Indian Wells, Larry Ellison, Nadal ran over and leaped into the stands to embrace Roig and his team.
The rest of the audience could feel Rafa’s emotion. It was strong enough, as it usually is when he wins, to pull everyone into its childlike force field. But only his coaches, the men who had worked with him here and over the last three months to get him back into top-level playing shape so quickly, who tinkered with the strokes, fixed the footwork, and kept him believing in himself, could understand exactly what this win meant. After the months of lows, this was a well-deserved, and hard-earned, high moment.
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At the start of this post, I wrote that Nadal was the fire to Maria Sharapova’s ice. Really, in the way they approach the game, in their never-dying desire and never-flagging work ethic, they’re two sides of the same persistent coin. Tennis’s good pennies, they keep coming back for more.
Posted: 18.03.13 19:46. Post subject: Nadia0808 пишет: Ол..
Nadia0808 пишет:
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Оль, я не поняла - Рафа играет на болеутоляющих
Рафа сказал, что на ночь перед матчем он принимает противовоспалительные. При этом надеется, что в ближайшем будущем будет обходиться без них. Тони в одном из недавних радиоинтервью говорил, что Рафа сейчас играет без болеутоляющих.
Posted: 18.03.13 20:40. Post subject: ольга Конечно тяжел..
ольга Конечно тяжело. За такими термоядерными мячами носился, успевал, растяжки, торможения, а сколько в прыжках сыграл Хороший отдых с семьей дома, друзьми в клубе, рыбалка, восстановление и снова потихоньку тренироваться на грунте Главное, что Рафа счастлив, море положительных эмоций и замечательное настроение
Posted: 19.03.13 09:46. Post subject: Nadia0808 Возвращае..
Nadia0808 Возвращаемся к "любимой" теме - к колену. После турнира Рафа давал множество интервью, в Твиттере написали, что он сказал в радиопрограмме Partido de las 12: - что он бы "подписался" на такое самочувствие, какое у него было последние две недели - что колено побаливает и немеет после тяжелых матчей как в воскресенье, это нормальная реакция.
Тони в интервью сказал, что в четверг они приступают к тренировкам.
Posted: 19.03.13 12:17. Post subject: ольга Уф, отлегло м..
ольга Уф, отлегло маленько Ну, если Рафа сам "подписался" бы на такое состояние, значит повода для паники нет Может и правда ссадина. В четверг уже и тренировки А отдохнуть Рафе когда
Posted: 20.03.13 20:52. Post subject: Бенито в Твиттере оп..
Бенито в Твиттере опроверг информацию о том, что Рафа приступит к тренировкам в четверг (т.е. сегодня). Это логично, ему надо отдохнуть, тем более, что он летал в Виторию к врачу.
Posted: 20.03.13 20:57. Post subject: Nadia0808 пишет: Да..
Nadia0808 пишет:
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Да сегодня с утра среда была
Да??? А я села смотреть CNN Кстати, там по расписанию почему-то время другое - 20.30:
Thursday 21 March at 0930 GMT / 1030 CET and 1630 GMT / 1730 CET Saturday 23 March at 0730 GMT / 0830 CET and 2100 GMT / 2200 CET Sunday 24 March at 1630 GMT / 1730 CET Saturday 30 March at 1630 GMT / 1730 CET Sunday 31 March at 0730 BST / 0930 CET and 2130 GMT/ 2330 CET
Posted: 20.03.13 23:56. Post subject: Рафа вернулся на Мал..
Рафа вернулся на Мальорку из Витории. Давид Надаль пишет в Твиттере, что Рафа удивлен и очень доволен результатами обследования. С коленом могло быть лучше, но прогресс налицо, после всех сыгранных турниров никаких ухудшений не обнаружено.
Posted: 28.03.13 16:24. Post subject: Marca.com пишет, что..
Marca.com пишет, что в среду, 27 марта, Рафа снова посетил клинику д-ра Санчеса в Витории. Перевод статьи:
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Nadal makes a surprise visit to Dr. Mikel Sanchez in Vitoria
The visit, in principle, should not alter the programming of Rafa's clay schedule, where the player from Manacor defends 4590 ATP points, starting with Monte Carlo.
D.P. Vitoria 28/03/13 - 12:26.
Rafael Nadal made a flying visit yesterday to Dr. Mikel Sanchez of the USP La Esperanza Clinic of Vitoria. The Spaniard wanted to pass a final review of the state of his knees before the start of the European clay court season.
Nadal was last week in Vitoria with his father and Luis Cotorro to review its chronic tendinopathy after his trip to the Americas, where his knees underwent heavy wear and where he won the first successes of the season, noting especially his 1000 Masters victory at Indian Wells over Juan Martin del Potro.
Now, with just seven days apart, Rafa has decided to return on a visit that was not originally scheduled and surprised by the short time that has elapsed since the last time.
The words of the Mallorcan player exiting the clinic last week were encouraging to recognize that his "knees were fine, much better."
The visit, in principle, should not alter the programming of Rafa's clay schedule, where the player defends Nadal 4590 ATP points, starting with Monte Carlo.
Posted: 28.03.13 18:34. Post subject: Давид Надаль в Твитт..
Давид Надаль в Твиттере вволю поглумился над Маркой, которая написала, что Рафа появился в клинике Санчеса "неожиданно". Типа, сюрпрайз, сюрпрайз!
Он пишет: ну да, визит был "неожиданным", д-р Санчес был сражен наповал, встретив Рафу в клинике. В следующий раз, Рафа, предупреждай врача, а Бенито пусть выпускает пресс-релиз. Мы не любим таких "неожиданностей".
Posted: 28.03.13 19:11. Post subject: Nadia0808 Да я не з..
Nadia0808 Да я не знаю, что думать. Марке вообще сложно доверять. Но ведь есть фотка из аэропорта с баскетбольной командой. Бедный Рафа, ему от посторонних глаз не скрыться, за каждым шагом следят.
Posted: 28.03.13 20:45. Post subject: ольга Они же нас ни..
ольга Они же нас ничем не напугали после первого визита, значит вчера просто был контроль или же понадобилась ещё одна процедура после осмотра. Нам бы походку посмотреть, чтоб определиться
Posted: 28.03.13 21:10. Post subject: ольга Да, да, именн..
ольга Да, да, именно таким образом ПесТня Тема прессы - я сегодня на обеде решила пару страничек рафиной книги почитать, освежить, так сказать в памяти. Открыла наугад, увлеклась, забыла всё. С обеда опоздала и значительно
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Так и хочется от расстройства что-нибудь перевести... 
Всех с Рафиным днем рождения! 
Но что-то меня в ней зацепило - видимо, последняя фраза. 
Vamos Rafa! 
Еще раз спасибо!!! 
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