RafaLint: June 11th
Photo by REUTERS/ Gonzalo Fuentes
ATP Tribute to Rafa: Rafa’s Roland Garros Record.
Articles:
- The Hard Way – by Steve Tignor (tennis.com) Warning – the last two paragraphs might make you misty-eyed.
- Nadal’s Monument Made of Clay – by Tom Perrotta (wsj.com)
- The Sun King – by Jesse Pentecost (thenextpoint.com)
- Rafael Nadal captures record seventh French Open crown – by Douglas Robson (USA Today)
- Rafael Nadal makes history with defeat of Novak Djokovic – by Kevin Mitchell (guardian.co.uk)
- Nadal Beats Djokovic for Record Seventh French Title – by Ben Rothenberg (nytimes.com)
- Rafael Nadal’s belief restored – by Howard Bryant (espn.com)
- Nadal finds redemption against Djokovic in historic French Open – by Bruce Jenkins (si.com)
- 2012 French Open Wrap-up – digizine from tennis.com
- Roland Garros Is Rafa’s House – via the ATP
- Nadal Tops Djokovic To Break Borg’s Paris Record – via the ATP
- In Seventh Heaven – via the ATP
- Racquet Reaction: Nadal d. Djokovic – by Pete Bodo (tennis.com)
- Nadal Seals Magnificent Seven – Reuters via nytimes.com
- Nadal, Djokovic and Federer built a golden era of men’s tennis – by the AP
- Go Figure: Stats, numbers after historic French Open final – by C.W. Sesno (si.com)
- The men’s final in figures – by Myrtille Rambion (rolandgarros.com)
- Why Tennis Should Love Rafa’s Revenge – by Jason Gay (wsj.com)
Videos:
- Last practice before Monday’s continuation
- Tributo a Rafa Nadal Heptacampeón Roland Garros 2012
- Interview on the Roland Garros site
- Interview with tve
- tve interview with Rosana (or, watch it here.) – Thanks, Inés
- Interview with CNN
- CNN report on the final
- On court interview in Spanish
- Trophy ceremony footage from CANAL+ (won’t play for me, though)
Photos:
- Rafael Nadal’s Grand Slam Victories
- Rafa with his trophy
- Photo gallery via the Facebook account of Roland Garros
- Photos from the final and trophy ceremony have been added to Ella Ling’s gallery on Facebook
- Benito’s new Facebook cover image.
- Love Nike’s new cover image on Facebook.
- And, while we are at it, Babolat cover image
Rafa does social media:
- Rafa shared a locker room photo and thanked us for our support.
- His new Facebook cover image.
Tweets about Rafa:
So many tweets…I lost track and forgot to favorite a lot. Sorry.
- 7th
- The greatest
- Micaela Bryan sends congrats to Uncle Rafa
- Perfect example
- Noticed in 2003
- El Unico
- Emotional Toni
- Unstoppable
- Pau sends his congrats
- Party on, dude
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Steve Tignor made me cry. It’s a great article. :) I couldn’t watch the final last night and only followed Miri’s tweets. When Rafa won, I was emotional (to say the least), as I know everyone was too. :) I’ll be watching the match in full later and I might be emo again.
So happy for Rafa and so happy and proud to be his fan. :)
Only have had time to read Steves article and yes Mafie I had tears too. As he said I have never seen the family, especially uncle Toni so animated during a match, sure did out-Djokovic the Djokovics ….. love it.
“They were out-Djokoviching the Djokovics.” Haha. This is a good one. They surely were. Their almost trademark reserve washed away.
Tignor’s article is so good. And I got the tears as you promised we would get from that article, Miri.
Thankfully, there was support for Rafa throughout the stadium. Although support was not as loud as that for Djokovic, it was no less intense. And I’m glad to read that the Nadal clan were “out-Djokoviching the Djokovics”. This wasn’t that obvious from where I was seated so very good to read about that. It’s just that Rafa fans are not as loud as Djokovic’s fans, that is the true. But I’m glad that Rafa knows that there is crowd support for him too. Personally it’s important to me that he knows that. That is why I travel to Paris, to give him support amongst the French crowd.
“Rafa shared a locker room photo and thanked us for our support.”
Nice photo!!!! *choke*
Looks like the exact same spot from last year—the same bench where he teared up!
Link to photo from last year ;)
http://tennis.topbuzz.com/tennis-pics/d/32085-2/Rafael+Nadal+sits+in+the+locker+room+contemplating+his+2011+French+Open+win.JPG
I hope there is footage of all this climbing to the stands and hugging so that I can watch it at some point! Wish I had seen that!
Outdjokoviching the Djokovics? Oh my, that must have been really something!
Miri has one. On the last 2 points vid. :)
Yes, i wrote that before she posted the videos, thank you miri!
Rafa seemed more profoundly emotional in 2010 to me, having come back from even greater struggles than 2011. This year he seemed more jubilant, the way he seemed after 2008 Wimbledon. Which is good.
My thoughts exactly!
Pete Bodo wrote a good article(wow!really?!yes,surprisingly!) and yeah last 2 paras of Tignor’s article is so good. It made me dewy-eyed again!What a great and humble champion..Vamos Rafa.
Rafa walked past me a couple of minutes ago and I couldn’t stop smiling at him :)
I am sooooooo happy that he arrived here healthy and happy :)
Steve Tignor made my day even better :)
Thanks Miri for your work!!!
I’m so jealous you got to see Rafa so close. :)
Oh no – not another cake!
To wake up this morning being a Rafa fan, was different from any other day.
BECAUSE YESTERDAY HE DID IT!!! He won, and I feel so relieved, so at peace.
Like many of you have expressed here, I find it so comforting to be able to share, read and understand how a Rafa fan feels, and I just wish, I´d known about this forum way before I actually did.
So thank you for that, and thanks to Miri for letting us do that, I really appriciate this.
Seeing the video: ” Tributo a Rafa Nadal Heptacampeón Roland Garros 2012″ really sums up, what an extraordinary efford Rafa has been accomplished in the last seven years here.
I especially loved the last few seconds of the video, where he gives us his gorgeous, infectious smile. It made my morning even sweeter, and you could just tell, how incredibly happy and satisfied he was:-D
Hard to imagine a more beautiful spirit…he is just extraordinary in every way…
Yes, you are so right…
Have not had time to look at all this good stuff but will feast on it for the next few days! I did read the Tignor article yesterday and about choked laughing so hard when I read the “out Djokovic’s the Djokovic family”. I feel so relieved for Rafa (and all of us) that he won this trophy and am appreciative of eveyone’s comments.
“out Djokovic’s the Djokovic family”.
The most “killer” (BEST!) statement of all in the article! haha…
typo: “out-Djokoviching the Djokovics”.
Congratulations Rafa! You did it! I am so proud of you…the greatest ever. I am happy, relieved and at peace that you won your 7th. It will surely help you in your quest for a 3rd Wimbledon and the defence of your Olympic Gold.
Vamos!!!
Wow! Is that the longest list of articles that Miri has presented us with to read that I have seen!? I am so looking forward to reading them all! Thanks, heaps , Miri as always.
Later!