RafaLint: November 26th

There’s actually been stuff going on in Rafa-land, but I’ve been very busy. Sorry about that. I don’t know how I’m going to manage balancing my new outdoor activities with the tennis schedule once it heats back up again…

Most Beloved:
Rafa was named one of the most loved Spanish sportsmen of the last 25 years by XL Semanal (mangle). Here’s a short interview brought about by the declaration(mangle). (Be sure to click through to both of the above articles for a nice photo.)

Articles:

• Nadal, convencido de que volverá a jugar “al mismo nivel de los últimos años” – via rtve which means there’s a video too. (mangle)
• Rafael Nadal: “Espero estar donde estaba” – per the mangle, seems that Toni is going to Abu Dhabi and Doha with Rafa.
• Recovering Nadal improves his golf handicap – by Jorge Quiroga (marca.com)
• What would you give the top tennis players for Christmas – via thetennisspace.com
• Rafa Nadal, este lunes en Sitges como Embajador de la Campaña de Responsabilidad Social – about the Bacardi event. (mangle)

Videos/Audio:

• iB3 coverage of the Bacardi event.
• Two short clips of Rafa golfing. My favorite thing is his determined looking walk up to the ball after he’s made up his mind on how to make the shot: one; two. And then he says hello.
• Toni gives a talk.
• Some shaky video of serve practice.

Photos:

• Photo from the Bacardi event.
• And another one.

Rafa does social media:

• Tomeu looks so darn happy to be there.
• Anyone up for a bike ride?
• Biking not your thing? How about a “bath”?

Social media related to Rafa:

Rafa Today in Sitges at the Casa Bacardi twitter.com/b1pr/status/27…

— B1PR (@b1pr) November 26, 2012

@nadalnews here is a cool pic of Rafa wearing his 2013 Australian Open outfit!! twitter.com/Cspirop/status…

— Christopher Spirop (@Cspirop) November 26, 2012

Random:

• There’s another Rafael Nadal in the sports world…and he’s a lefty too: Nadal: “Sería lindo jugar un fútbol-tenis con Nadal” (mangle)
• Tiger mothers will disagree, but you can’t manufacture a prodigy – by Ed Smith.
• Next week, the American TV show The Amazing Race will be in Spain and will feature a tennis challenge filmed on Mallorca. Skip to minute 43 of this video to see the preview. My world’s are colliding. I have an Amazing Race fan site that I no longer pay attention to thanks to Rafa taking up all my time. :D

26 Nov 2012 | by miri | 6 Comments