Hit for Haiti 2 photos

Here are a few of my photos in a small quickly processed size. More photos – including ones of the women’s match and the other guys (heh) and actual tennis will be eventually posted to my flickr account.

And, here’s some really nice photos from the pros.

13 Mar 2010 | 30 Comments

IW practice and footwork drill

First, doing his footwork drills and then talking to Pico.

Night practice wearing black jacket:

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13 Mar 2010 | 11 Comments

Amazing points in HD

I usually hate fan videos, but this one is all tennis, all amazing and all Rafa.

2 Mar 2010 | 51 Comments

IW 08 & 09 photos

Susanna728 sent in a link to her photo album from the 2008 and 2009 Indian Wells tournament – Enjoy! And thanks to Susanna728 for putting together the album and sending in the link.

28 Feb 2010 | 42 Comments

aRafaelite’s Australian Open diary: photos from the last 2 days

(Sorry I’m so late getting this posted for aRafaelite – I kept forgetting.)

3 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments

aRafaelite’s Australian Open diary: day 7 & 8

Wednesday 26 January – Raw

A part of me felt like the tournament was all over after Rafa’s devastating withdrawal last night. I felt a little raw this morning. I had said previously to xta, if I feel like this following Rafa, what must his Mum feel like watching his matches?! I’ve avoided the news, the internet, everything except Nadal News since the loss because I can’t bear to hear all the speculation about career-ending injuries. I should have remembered some ear plugs though, because guess what everyone was talking about on the way to Melbourne Park? By the

28 Jan 2010 | 17 Comments

aRafaelite’s Australian Open diary: day 6

Tuesday 25 January – Out for the Count

Today was Australia Day. A national holiday. A day when Australians celebrate being Australian. Which means parades, fireworks, Triple JJJ (trendy radio station)’s Top 100 songs of the previous year, cricket, BBQs and beer. Well, any kind of alcohol really. This affects the tennis in a number of ways:

1. It makes it bloody hard to get there due to the parade that goes though the centre of Melbourne. Annoying, because they don’t warn you about it.

2. Despite the fact that the last remaining Australians in the singles draws (Stosur and Hewitt)

28 Jan 2010 | One Comment

aRafaelite’s Australian Open diary: day 5

Monday 24 January – Losing Streak

I’m really on a tear here people. The only two players I’ve got behind in Round 4 who’ve actually won, are Rafa and Tsonga. Everyone else I’ve got behind has crashed and burned. Which is frankly the only way to describe what happened in Verdasco’s match against Davydenko today. Actually other expressions do come to mind, but I’ll get to that shortly.

First up on my schedule today was recovering from Feña’s late-night loss last night. I wish I’d seen more of Gonzalez earlier in his career. There was a while (after Henman

28 Jan 2010 | 5 Comments

aRafaelite’s Australian Open diary: day 4

Sunday 24 January – A Roller Coaster

What a day! Okay, let me start by saying that I was unable to get a ticket to Rod Laver Arena to see Rafa’s match today. Grrrr. I can’t even remember which women’s matches were scheduled for HiSense this morning but I decided to skip them in favour of a lie in and sorting out photos, returning emails and trying to find out what was going on with cyclone number 2 that was closing in on Cairns. Insane. Again The Windy has died down a bit, but haven’t had an update on Maria

24 Jan 2010 | 8 Comments

aRafaelite’s Australian Open diary: day 3

Saturday 23 January – The Sense to stay on HiSense.

A shorter(?) blog today, as it doesn’t feature Rafa, or not the real Rafa anyway… He was probably on a practice court somewhere, but I’m not buying into this skulking round entrances thing when I could be watching proper matches. Maybe next time ;) and yes, I’m enjoying this so much there will be definitely be a next time! I’m missing Rafa news though – I haven’t had time to read all the write ups of his last match, etc. You lot probably know more than I do.

First

23 Jan 2010 | 5 Comments