RafaLint: June 14th
Photo by REUTERS/ Ina Fassbender
Rafa and Kohlschreiber play 2nd on the main court Friday. Play starts at noon local time. His doubles match will be on the second court “not before” 3pm. Vamos!
Articles:
- Rafael Nadal picks up the pace – from gerryweber-open.de. It’s also available in German.
- Nadal, Federer safely through in Halle – via cnn.com
- Tennis-Weltstar Rafael Nadal mit kompletter Crew beim gesellschaftlichen Highlight – from the Halle site (mangle)
- Nadal-Federer Rivalry Goes Viral – by Paul Macpherson (atpworldtour.com)
- JK would like to share this blog: Nadal stands alone as king of Paris – by Tom Fordyce (bbc.co.uk)
- La montre de Nadal retrouvée à Corbeil – from leparisien.fr (mangle). Cute quote from Richard Mille about the watch incident.
- The $500,000 Nadal Watch Is Now Sold Out – by Robert Frank (cnbc.com). More about that darn watch.
- Reigning singles champion Rafael Nadal to lead Spain’s tennis team at London Olympics – AP via washingtonpost.com
- U.S. Open will get $500 million in improvements, but no roof – by Courtney Nguyen (si.com)
Video/Audio:
- Best Of Roland Garros 2012 – via the tournament.
- Some high quality footage from the first round doubles match in Halle.
- Nadal ready for grass – I love it when Benito and Maymo just give up and walk out, leaving Rafa there watching tennis.
- abbey would like to share this podcast: “It has a lovely interview with Esther Vergeer where she shares the story behind her picture with Rafa that Rafa posted on his FB.”
- tve report on the doubles.
- Marc! appears to have taken line reading classes from Rafa.
Photos:
- Some photos from the doubles in this set.
Rafa does social media:
While playing his singles match, Rafa tweeted let us know he’d written another travel blog. He’s talentous! ‘)
Grandes momentos en París que queremos compartir con vosotros.Alguno nos lo guardamos ;) bit.ly/LW9dQX twitter.com/RafaelNadal/st…
— Rafael Nadal (@RafaelNadal) June 14, 2012
Here’s a mangle of the blog.
Tweets about Rafa:
@RafaelNadal gana su 7RG en 2012. Todo empezó en 1996, con su 1r título: Campeonato de Balears.Sobre tierra, obviously twitter.com/davidjnadal/st…
— davidjnadal (@davidjnadal) June 11, 2012
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The Tom Fordyce article was nice. Loved the lines “It is a frightening weapon, a horror to scare children to sleep and give grown men nightmares. At the same time it is a thing of beauty, admired and cherished by everyone except the poor unfortunate facing it down across the net.”
and “Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet and René Lacoste, 20 Grand Slam singles titles between them, were immortalised in sporting myth as the Four Muskeketeers. In Nadal, they have their D’Artagnan .”
Rafa tweeted while playing his match?Haha..
But he played well yesterday. Vamos for today!
Thanks, Miri, as always! Younger Rafa is so adorable!
Wow! Rafa’s travel blog is SO revealing! Isn’t he afraid of “stalkers” hanging out at his hotel in Paris next year, etc! haha..
The article is not clear whether Rafa will also carry the flag for Spain at the Olympics. However, Wikipedia says Rafa will be the flag bearer. If so, it will be a great Ho-nor for him. He deserves it!
Younger Rafa is so cute. good thing Nike came along! ;)