RafaLint: April 24th

Rafa’s first Barcelona match will take place Wednesday. He’s the second match after 1:30pm local time.

Today’s recommended reading:
Brain Game: Nadal’s Improved Serve – by Craig O’Shannessy (ATP, sent in by john f and dk).

Today’s recommended drooling source:
adel1609′s photos from Monte-Carlo via YFrog and twitter.

Articles:

• Tennis Elbow: The lucky number 8 – by Charles Blouin-Gascon (tennisconnected)
• Nadal shows he is still the clay king – by Greg Rusedski (Reuters)
• “Entrar más en la pista y… forzar” by Juan José Mateo (elpais.com). An article where Toni talks about the strategy changes to Rafa’s game. (mangle) Thanks, @genny_ss.
• Wimbledon and the powwr of the big four – by Simon Cambers (The Tennis Space)
• Rafael Nadal is the best clay court player ever: Andy Murray – by Agence France-Presse (ndtv.com)
• Wimbledon payout hike targets lower-ranked players – by Stuart Condie (miamiherald.com)

Videos:

• Rafa and Kei having promo hit.
• More Rafa and Kei
• Check out germii92′s YouTube channel for some practice videos from Monte-Carlo.

Photos:

• Banco Sabadell has added some photos from the promo event Rafa did with Kei to their set – starting here. They’ve also added some post-practice pictures starting here.
• Banco Sabadell Instagrams too.

Tweets about Rafa:

Will anyone defeat @RafaelNadal in Barcelona this week? Will anyone take a set? Rafa 60 of 62 sets won during 29-match streak (6 titles).

— Greg Sharko (@SharkoTennis) April 25, 2012

Random:

• I seriously need help: Pinterest and Facebook.

Continuing my streak of bad luck lately, I fell down half a flight of stairs today and mucked up my ankle/knee/hip/shoulder on the bad hip side. So, 10 puncture wounds on bruises from vein closure on left leg; twisted ankle, rug burns, sore knee, hip, ankle and hip on right side. I’m a freaking mess! (I’ll be okay, but man, this crap needs to stop.)

24 Apr 2012 | by miri | 33 Comments