RafaLint: October 2nd

I’m not sure I’m ready to think about this yet:

Articles:

• Rafael Nadal cleared for Australian Open – by Courtney Walsh (theaustralian.com.au)
• Australian Open prize money at record $31 million; says Rafael Nadal still plans to play
• Djokovic, Nadal and Murray head billing for Abu Dhabi tennis event – by Amith Passela (thenational.ae)
• Nadal in Abu Dhabi fitness bid
• The hard truth for Rafael Nadal – by Ahmed Rizvi (thenational.ae)
• Nadal must write off 2012 – by Chris Wilkinson (espn.co.uk)
• Rafa mentions in this two part series: The Rally: Fall Forecast; The Rally: Season For The Ages – by Steve Tignor and Kamakshi Tandon (tennis.com).
• And he, of course, gets a mention in this one: The top 10 football fans in tennis (via thetennisspace.com)

Photos:

• As shown above, the AO hype machine is already fully functioning.

Rafa does social media:

• Hanging with his sis
• One of the best humble brags of all times. “Look at these shoes! Oh yes…and all those grand slam trophies in the background.”
• Nice legs – and a reminder I need to do my balance ball work. (And, this somehow brought about Inés tweeting a link to this old video of Rafa being forced to show off his famoos ass.)

Tweets about Rafa:

#Rafa told @craigtiley he’s planning for #AusOpen 2013 to be his first tournament back from injury!

— Australian Open (@AustralianOpen) October 2, 2012

.@craigtiley chatted to @rafaelnadal recently & #Rafa‘s doing everything possible to get body right for #AusOpen 2013 twitter.com/AustralianOpen…

— Australian Open (@AustralianOpen) October 2, 2012

.@craigtiley: “Knowing @rafaelnadal‘s incredible will, I would be amazed if he didn’t make it to #AusOpen 2013.”

— Australian Open (@AustralianOpen) October 2, 2012

.@craigtiley: “@rafaelnadal’s huge heart is being tested once more. His body has been failing him. But, true to form he is fighting hard.”

— Australian Open (@AustralianOpen) October 2, 2012

Omg, look who I’ve just seen while driving along!!! Had 2 stop briefly on double yellow lines to take a pic <3 :) twitter.com/creamola_foam/…

— creamola_foam (@creamola_foam) October 2, 2012

@nadalnews Cute Pico interview, talks a bit about Rafa in the middle, won’t discuss what they “bet” in video games. ;) youtube.com/watch?v=2nR2rP…

— Dianne(@diannada) October 2, 2012

(Sorry, I know a lot of embeds goofs up the links to the comments, but I really wanted to preserve the original sources here.)

2 Oct 2012 | by miri | One Comment