RafaLint: April 22nd
Won a tournament? Your work has just begun: Behind-The-Scenes On Nadal Media Blitz:
Posted by ATPWorldTour.
Articles:
- Racquet Reaction: Nadal d. Djokovic – by Richard Pagliaro (tennis.com)
- Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic for 8th straight Monte Carlo title – by Courtney Nguyen (si.com)
- Nadal Wins Eighth Straight Monte-Carlo Crown – from the ATP
- Nadal: “Yo no voy a decir jamás que soy el mejor de la historia” – a post-match interview by Sebastián Fest (elpais.cr) and here’s the mangle.
- Tennis-Nadal enjoys perfect day in Monte Carlo – by Gregory Blachier (Reuters)
- Fighting Another Day – by Steve Tignor (mainly from the Djokovic side; sadly Bodo will write the Rafa perspective).
- Speaking of which: The House Always Wins – by Peter Bodo (tennis.com)
- Rafa’s Record – via the ATP.
- Nadal sweeps aside Djokovic to claim eighth straight Monte Carlo crown – via CNN.com
- Rafael Nadal secures his eighth consecutive Monte Carlo title – via the BBC
Videos:
- Fan video of Rafa doing a TV interview.
Photos:
- Rafa blows a kiss.
- A nice MC final photoset on flickr.
Rafa does social media:
- Rafa shared a photo from the MC locker room of himself, his trophy and his team.
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Gee, that’s a lot of work after winning the tournament. Couldn’t they let him have his shower before doing all these. It was cute how Rafa hugged the little boy who was following him, when he nearly knocked him over. And I saw at 1.36, Rafa seemed to have problem coming down from the stage, as if he couldn’t quite bend his knee. That made me very sad.
Hope Rafa and team had a good celebration. They totally deserve it!
Rafa hugging that boy, was the highlight of the video..so sweet..
That was his little cousin, wasn’t it? Toni’s youngest boy? Looked like him and looked like it was someone familiar enough with Rafa to think it was perfectly natural to follow him around. :)
I’m not Rafa’s cousin, but I would definitely follow him around..hehe..
I like Pagliaro’s ending comment about Rafa’s win: “He created another clay-court casualty today…”
Nice to hear someone say Rafa “created” the win rather than discounting it with an asterisk. Rafa brought an effective game plan to the court that quite likely would have resulted in victory regardless of Nole’s situation…IMO.
Aww, I want that woman’s job…the one who tidies up Rafa before he sits in front of the cameras.
Ummmmm… there’s something about the picture in the Racquet Reaction article… I can’t take my eyes off it. They had to know, didn’t they?
Love Rafa’s hair & smile in “Fan Video” doing a TV interview – he looks on top of the world as he should be after that win!
The imaginations of some of you! Kris K, you must not have seen Rafa after he won the AO in 09!
Someone tweeted there was a survey on MTF’s, which I don’t read, listing the players with the most, um, ‘action in the undies’ for lack of a better way to phrase it.
Gilles Simon won hands down, followed by Pico!