Thailand: The luxury suite

A look at Rafa’s beautiful hotel suite in Thailand and a howdy from his friends.

Posted by ReyesVB.

6 Oct 2010 | by miri | 14 Comments

Thailand: A Diary of 2 Stalkers

DAY 1
I went to the Thunderdome practice courts and invited Olive (Oli on NN) over after I saw the security double. The practice courts are indoors and closed to the public so we had to wait outside. While we’re waiting for Rafa, we saw Marc! coming in with his doubles partner (David Mererro) and shouted ‘Marc!’ hoping he would wait for us as we were sitting on the other side of the practice court. Marc! turned his head to us, but

5 Oct 2010 | by Atch2 | 32 Comments

RafaLint: October 3rd

Bangkok

BBC match report
Marca.com’s match report

Tokyo

Rafa’s in Japan and was greeted by actress Maiko Ito – photo here. He’s looking pretty awake for 6:30am.
His first practice session was attended by 5,000 fans.
Very nice practice photos at Rafa’s site.
More practice photos at the tournament site

Fan video of the practice: one; two.

Generic Tokyo preview article

Misc:

The Google mangling of this confuses me…is Rafa reading books about himself to people in hospital? Or are there just

3 Oct 2010 | by miri | 25 Comments

Thailand: Post semi presser

Posted by TheNationDigital.

Nice quality footage, but shorter:

Posted by thefieldwhereidied.

3 Oct 2010 | by miri | 8 Comments

Thailand: Semifinal videos

rtve.es report:

The second set tie-breaker (aka, the tie-break of doom):

Posted by vamosrafelnadal.

More:
First set high/low lights
iB3 report
Very grumpy moment
Video from fan at the match

2 Oct 2010 | by miri | 4 Comments

Thailand: Semifinal photos

Photos from the semifinal loss.

Photos by REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom, REUTERS/Damir Sagolj, Victor Fraile/Getty Images,and AFP PHOTO/PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL

2 Oct 2010 | by miri | 9 Comments

Thailand: Water my tree for me, okay?

The day’s second semifinal at the Thailand Open, saw Rafa take on #53 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. Rafa broke in the 6th game to go up 4-2 and then broke again in the 8th to take the first set. Sadly, aggressive Rafa went away after the first set. He was standing further back and wasn’t able to dictate play. After failing to convert 16 break point opportunities, Rafa played a sad tiebreaker and the second set belonged to Garcia-Lopez. Poor shot selection in the 4th game of the third set leads to Garcia-Lopez’s first break point of the match – and he

2 Oct 2010 | by miri | 157 Comments

Thailand: Post quarterfinal presser

Video from the presser:

Posted by TheNationDigital.

1 Oct 2010 | by miri | 10 Comments

Thailand: Rafa, Pico & the flower

Ah-ha! They’ve uploaded these photos to Rafa’s site and thanks to the time stamps, we know the actual sequence…

This kind of freaks me out. Here, you sniff it to see if it’s safe.

WTF is it? How does it manage to be so small?

Okay, I’ll sniff it too. *snort*

I find this to be very confusing.

Dude, just chill and enjoy, because that? Is one trippin’ flower.

1 Oct 2010 | by miri | 17 Comments

Thailand: Quarterfinal videos

Last two games:

Posted by vamosrafelnadal.

Start of match:

Various points:

Videos posted by danitrack.

1 Oct 2010 | by miri | 6 Comments