RafaLint: April 8th
Articles:
- The ATP picks the most memorable matches of 2012 – so far. What? Is our attention span so short we have to do lists like this just 3 months and 4 days into the year?
- Babolat has an online “Get Well” card for Rafa you can sign via Facebook.
Photos:
- @creamola_foam wants share something.
Tweets about Rafa:
The Roland Garros twitter let us know what’s at stake for the top 4 in clay season:
Clay court season kicks off this week ! Here’s the “deal” for the Big 4 @RafaelNadal @DjokerNole #Federer #Murray twitter.com/rolandgarros/s…
— Roland Garros (@rolandgarros) April 8, 2012
Too bad they got Rafa’s current points wrong. (They apologized later.)
Random:
- Sergiy Stakhovsky: Big earnings of tennis players are an illusion – a very interesting interview with Stakhovsky that touches on a lot of current ATP topics. He speaks freely and includes comments about the ATP Player Council. The article was originally posted on the Ukrainian website LB.ua. This is a version kindly translated to English by anna_tennisfan.
- Interview with Marc! who might have been hanging out with Rafa just a bit too long.
- A Team M&M giggler: La Bamba, Marc Lopez y Marcel Granollers.
- Making the 2012 Olympic Book: a little star – the latest entry on the tennis book for the Olympics.



Very interesting interview with Stakhovsky – he gives some opinions and factual info relating to ‘behind the scenes’ – traveling costs etc. Thanks for posting.
Very interesting Sergiy! I love watching him play.
Lot of support and respect for Rafa by Sergiy.
Thank you so much for the translation.
Rafa’s points to defend on clay are actually 4700 since they also forgot Barcelona which is 500 points. Maybe the fact that Monte Carlo is treated as a non mandatory tournament confused matters!!
@creamola_foam Thanks for this pic of Rafa. It’s made my day. Simply gorgeous.
Yes, one of the best…lovely, lovely man.
Agreed very interesting article.
That giggler video is hilarious-well done!