RafaLint: May 6th
What? The weekend’s almost over? Where did it go? *sigh* Here’s today’s lint.
Roger and Rafa presser clips, plus practice footage from Rafa:
Posted by MadridOpen.
Articles:
- Rafa’s pre-tournament interview in Spanish and English.
- Nadal Taking It “Day By Day” In Madrid – from the ATP.
- Nadal: “Estoy más cerca del número tres que del número uno” – EFE. (mangle)
- Davydenko: ‘Espero que Nadal me mate rápido’ – elmundo.es (mangle)
- Mutua Madrid Masters 2012: Men’s and Women’s draw preview and analysis – by Nima Naderi (tennisconnected.com)
Videos:
- Some practice and presser footage.
- Interview with Toni about the new tennis center in Manacor (via @adel1609).
- Short practice clip
Photos:
- A very nice and smiley photoset from Saturday’s practice session can be found on the Jeu Set et Match blog.
- And, on the same blog, excellent photos from Rafa’s presser.
- Some Monte-Carlo photos in this flickr set.
- Some wee Rafa practice photos in this article – scroll down.
Rafa does social media:
- Rafa waved hi to moms everywhere.
Tweets about Rafa:
The man we all adore so much RAFA!!! twitter.com/Varunchik1/sta…
— Varvara Lepchenko (@Varunchik1) May 6, 2012
I got a long distant view of Rafa’s practice w/ Feli this afternoon. twitter.com/DebLDecker/sta…
— Deb Decker (@DebLDecker) May 6, 2012
Random:
- A nice interview with Xavi Segura – stringer for the Spanish DC team. (mangle)
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Hello,
I saw you linked my photos of the Montecarlo Rolex Master in this post.
The link generated a lot of visits, so… THANK YOU.
Hmm..still feels odd to see the BLUE CLAY..seems artificial..oh well..can’t wait to see Rafa in action on it! :o)
I’m watching the tennis in Madrid at the mo.
Tennis played on the water……
I actually like the blue clay (being an oldie I can see the ball much better than on the red)on saying that and being a Gemini I can understand that Rafa really doesn’t like the change. We’ll see what happens next week.
Justcansaythankyouverymuch Rafa, for providing so much top quality thigh porn! It certainly helps removing focus from the shag carpet that is the Madrid clay. It looks like a really cheesy living room from the 70′s ;-)
Was yesterday mothers day in the rest of the world?
Because here in the Netherlands its next sunday…. Rafa scared the hell out off me on fb last night with that post!
It’s next Sunday here in the states as well. Maybe he just wanted to make sure he didn’t forget his mom amidst all the celebrating next Sunday!!
Really not liking the blue clay. Dull, drab and dreary and I don’t think it makes it clearer to see the ball, there s no difference to me or maybe I need to go to SPECSAVE!!!!
What does anyone ese think?
I think the ATP should have respected the players’ assessments of the blue clay and it should not be used if they (the players) think it is impacts their play adversely.