RafaLint: February 18th
Photo by Beth Wilson
Articles:
- ´¿Dopaje? Nadal gana por su enorme sacrificio y trabajo´ – by J. E. Munera. Albert Alcaraz defends Rafa. (mangle)
Contests:
- MidwestSports is giving away signed Rafa and Roger rackets. Go here to enter.
- It must be signed racket season, because The Tennis Channel is also having a contest.
Rafa does social media:
- Rafa and pals show off their Carnavales costumes.
Tweets about Rafa:
Rafa enjoyed some golf today (don’t forget to click on the image link):
Gran jornada de golf hoy en Mallorca con una leyenda viva del deporte. @RafaelNadal es lo que se ve.Un grande! yfrog.com/oejhhhhj
— Hugo Costa (@hugocostagolf) February 18, 2012
Para los q preguntáis @RafaelNadal handicap 6, pegador, swing poco ortodoxo, muy, muy competitivo. Un tío muy sencillo y cercano!
— Hugo Costa (@hugocostagolf) February 18, 2012
Mangle:
“Great day of golf today in Mallorca with a living legend of the sport. @RafaelNadal is what you see. A great!
For those who ask @RafaelNadal handicap 6, hitting, unorthodox swing, very, very competitive. A very simple guy and close!”
(Hope the embeds don’t cause too much of a scrolling problem – I was thinking the post was short enough this time. Let me know if there are problems.)
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“unorthodox swing, very, very competitive”
Sounds familiar … he just can’t help it. ;)
The Carnavales photo in facebook…I think he’s 2nd from the right. It’s his eyes! =)
I think so too! And he’s hiding his hands, maybe he knows we know them so well. The height and the way he’s leaning in seems right, I hope he lets us know soon.
Tennis.com has a parody, written by Pete Bodo, about the “syndrome” of being a Rafa fan. It’s pretty funny at the beginning:
“…delusions of being intimate with Nadal, or of having a quasi-mystical or even parental or spousal understanding of his words and actions” — um, remind you of anyone?
But then the article kind of runs out of steam and gets dopey; I can’t decide whether it’s supposed to be affectionate, or whether it has a mean streak.
http://blogs.tennis.com/tennisworld/2012/02/by-pete-bodo-researchers-at-the-center-for-disease-investigation-cdi-in-atlanta-ga-believe-theyve-identified-a-new-and.html
It’s Bodo. He has a mean streak.
He’s a Fed KAD and like so many others is very bitter about Rafa always beating Roger.
I agree, it was funny at first, but he should have stopped after the first few paragraphs. The rest was over the top silly and not at all humorous. I wonder if deep down Bodo is perhaps just a bit envious of Rafa:)
The tennis racquet give away contests are only open to Americans/US residents..oh well..
I think Pete has a mean streak and is “humor” challenged but he does like Rafa. He’s written good things and bad things about him. I think it’s more of a snark about Rafa’s fans than Rafa.
I thought it was funny. I agree with him that the fashion stuff has gotten a little over the top.
Something tells me Rafa’s career after tennis will be golf and that he’ll someday end up on the PGA tour playing competitive golf. Rafa is a competitor at heart so I’ll be curious to see what happens after his tennis career ends. I think he’s a good enough golfer to turn pro.
Well, wouldn’t that be fun!