RafaLint: May 31st
Love this video – “Practicing with Rafael Nadal, as told by Maxime Teixeira…”
Posted by BABOLATWorld.
Nice little Rafa promo:
Rafael Nadal feature by rolandgarros
Articles:
- Racquet Reaction: Nadal d. Istomin – by Hannah Wilks (tennis.com)
- Nadal Overpowers Istomin – by John Martin (nytimes.com)
- Nadal flying very high in Paris – Reuters
- Rafael Nadal crushes Denis Istomin in second round – via the Guardian
- Nadal: “Lo importante es celebrar mi cumpleaños en París y no en Mallorca” – interesting stuff about his different attitude this year compared to last via mundodeportivo.com (mangle).
Videos:
- 2nd round match highlights
- Post match on-court interview
- El punto de Nadal que levantó al público de París
- Behind the scenes – Rafa around 1:20 and then…”behind” becomes literal (sadly, not Rafa’s, though)
- Promo video for the Babolat contest posted about earlier.
Photos:
- @adel1609′s been working her camera again – check out her stream.
- Day 5 photos from the Roland Garros Facebook account.
- Match photos via the Roland Garros Google+ account.
- Rafa photos in this set from Black_Swann and this one from francetvsport.
Tweets about Rafa:
Postmatch interview on Suzanne Lenglen with @RafaelNadal and @cbfowler #RG12 #ESPN10s twitter.com/ESPN10s/status…
— ESPN10s (@ESPN10s) May 31, 2012
Random:
- Tipsarevic: I’d love to do a set with Gael Monfils – Rafa and Benito mentions.
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I can’t imagine how terrible Rafa must have felt last year. Hope he never has to go through that again. Glad to hear that he’s feeling happier these days! May he stay happy always!!
If the ‘behind the scenes’ had been Rafa’s behind I’m sure it would be a massive hit on ‘YouTube’ by now!!
Me thinks Rafa’s unhappiness last year (he said he missed home/family/friends) had a little bit to do with Mary studying in London. She’s back in Spain now and our boy is happy again.
Heh. A couple of us stopped to watch Maxime practice at the AO this year. As soon as he saw two women with cameras clicking away, he started posturing! It was really quite funny. He doesn’t lack confidence, that’s for sure! To be fair, he really is quite good-looking though, I’ll give him that!
Hmmm… Rafa says he was feeling a little sick in the beginning of the first match with Istomin, though he got better (not a Python reference!). Gasquet was sick yesterday, and Berdych has been sick during the first set today. Is some illness going around the players again, I wonder? Anyone heard anything about this?
Ummm Melissa, I definitely think something got lost in translation there (Google translate can be wacky) but I think Rafa was saying he served poorly in the beginning of the match. My Spanish is barely there but that’s what I can glean from the original words. Putting his words thru Google translate gives just what you saw, that he was sick! If my manual translation holds water, I think he said ‘I served a little badly at the beginning of the match’. So don’t be alarmed (I nearly was too) cos I think Rafa is ok.
So Rafa is okay? NOT sick? just a “lost in translation” thingy?
Thanks very much, hon. I’m relieved, and should know better than to trust my translations. My Castilian is 40 years old and badly rusty, today’s slang and idioms throw me — I’ve been too long without proper conversation with native speakers. (Actually, none of my languages have survived intact the onset of senility.)
Well, I sure hope he doesn’t get whatever these other guys have!
Lol Melissa you’re very welcome. I can’t boast any decent Spanish myself (making out written words takes all my abilities) but the wackiness of Google translate has made me decide to at least have a look at original words to try to decipher the general meaning of what is really being said. I totally hope with you that Rafa doesn’t catch anything from others though.
Argghh..I can’t view the Behind the Scenes video..maybe NOT available for my region (ASIA) or my country MALAYSIA..
Any YOUTUBE version of it, by any chance?
So does anyone know how Rafa (or Toni) chooses who Rafa will practice with on a particular day and, if it’s an unknown like Maxime, how does that person get chosen?
Aini, click on the bottom right hand corner of the vid from BabolatWorld and it should take you to the Youtube version.
Thanks Annie.I shall try that! :o)
Annie,
I can view the other videos (Babolat,etc)..only “BEHIND THE SCENES” video I have problems with..it’s not under Youtube channel..but under DAILY MOTION..so maybe it is region restricted..:o(
Interesting vids, just watching Rafa whipp that iconic forehand of his is something so special, he is one of a kind, glad he is happier, his liccle smile in his 2nd round match victory was priceless..! hope he is focused though and continues to win right..