RafaLint: October 27th

Photo by Beth Wilson

Per Benito, Rafa is in Paris and will be live on M6 news at 8pm on Sunday.

Articles:

• Rafael Nadal still injured and now out of ATP Tour Finals in London – via the heraldsun.com.au
• Nadal, ATP World Tour Pay Tribute To Ferrero At Retirement Ceremony – via the ATP
• “Rafael Nadal is my inspiration” – a badminton player looks up to Rafa.
• Rafa’s foundation is hard at work: Los discípulos de Rafa Nadal, rumbo a Barcelona (mangle); Fundación Rafa Nadal y Special Olympics España organizan el I Encuentro Nacional de tenis “Más que Tenis” (mangle).
• Juan Martin del Potro qualifies for London but feels sympathy for Rafael Nadal – via Sky Sports
• Fashion Friday: Women’s Apparel – by Richard Pagliaro (tennis.com); includes some interesting info about Rafa’s shorts. ;)

Videos/Audio:

• Pico and Rafa in Valencia – Pico always looks like such a story-teller.

Photos:

• Photos from the Ferrero retirement party.
• I always think of this smile as his “shy and unsure of what else to do” smile.
• Flashback to a super curly hair day at the last AO.
• There are photos from the foundation event mentioned above here and here.

Rafa does social media:

• As we all expected, Rafa let us know that he wasn’t going to be playing in the Paris Masters or WTF.
• Rafa’s smiling and hanging out with Richard Mille.

Social media related to Rafa:

Back from Ferrero s party. A lot of (drunk) players tonight including Nadal, Lopez, Raonic, Monaco, Fognini and Ferrero of course lol

— Adeline A. (@adel1609) October 25, 2012

@nadalnews haha no he was too drunk for that lol danced with feli on ‘call me maybe’

— Adeline A. (@adel1609) October 25, 2012

@mysoulblog pico and feli were quite ok but not Rafa. Pico was keeping ab eye on him and told him it was time to go by 5am

— Adeline A. (@adel1609) October 25, 2012

Someone asked Benito about this article (mangle) and Benito replied…

@radosko nope. Not the case. Not the reality. Rafa is in France and tomorrow will be on TV at M6 news at 8pm CET

— Benito P-Barbadillo (@benitopb) October 27, 2012

He discredited another one too. (mangle):

@_isabellamelo_ I am pretty surprised about this article. A good journalist and a friend. This time got it wrong, not the case

— Benito P-Barbadillo (@benitopb) October 27, 2012

My Halloween costume. Going as 2010 US Open Champ @rafaelnadal #Vamos twitter.com/cruznamir/stat…

— Cruznamir (@cruznamir) October 28, 2012

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27 Oct 2012 | by miri | 5 Comments