RafaLint: January 16th
There are a lot of sites out there claiming that it’s confirmed that Rafa’s playing in Viña del Mar. As far as I know, his camp has not confirmed anything yet. Per Genny and Inés, the Spanish press and reporters are saying that the tournament really wants him (d’uh!), are holding a WC for him, and are hoping to announce something soon, but Rafa’s camp hasn’t signed on the dotted line yet. He may well end up playing there, and may confirm things soon after I post this so I look like an idiot, but it’s not confirmed yet.
Rafa and his very active eyebrows are happy to be going to Brazil:
Articles:
- Nadal supera con éxito la última revisión médica previa a su vuelta al circuito – from the mangle, it seems that Rafa’s gotten a clean bill of health. But I’m too distracted by…something…to be sure.
- Open Insider: the absence of Rafael Nadal robs the Australian Open of a major drawcard in Melbourne – by Will Swanton (foxsports.com.au)
Rafael Nadal’s return can’t come quickly enough – via ndtv.com
Social media related to Rafa:
- Steven Diez (who is playing in Viña del Mar) trained with Rafa today and shared a photo.
- Babolat promotes their recent contest on Facebook.
Flavia gives us some gifts again:
Buon allenamento oggi, impossibile non motivarsi con Rafa vicino!! twitter.com/flavia_pennett…
— Flavia Pennetta (@flavia_pennetta) January 16, 2013
— Flavia Pennetta (@flavia_pennetta) January 16, 2013
@rafaelnadal twitter.com/MarieVdBtenis/…
— Marie Van den Bosch (@MarieVdBtenis) January 16, 2013
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“…. the biggest forearm since Popeye’s” cracked me up. I so miss those arms and his unforgiving forehand. Waaah! Come to mama soon, Rafa!
The article by Will Swanson made me relive the grief of that AO12 final but also made me proud of our boy Rafa again..Whatta match!
Rafa, other atp players are not in some brilliant form, i think that you would easily beat them so it hurts seeing them on australinan open. Hope to see you soon on the court. Rafa is born winner and he is best tennis player in open era. I think that someone who is best player of all times should have positive score against top 10 players. Federer has negative score not only against Rafa.
Hope to see you soon Rafa