WTF: Rafa’s first to qualify for WTF

And the ATP is letting everyone know via a special home page.

6 Jun 2010 | by miri | 6 Comments

DC: Videopalooza

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30 Nov 2009 | by miri | 29 Comments

WTF: Clare at the O2

Clare, from the BBC 606 Rafa Nadal Appreciation thread, sent me a link to some photos she took during the WTF tournament. Including at least one famooos ass shot. :) Check them out. And, since you’ll be roaming around in flickr anyway, you’ll want to check out her Monte Carlo and USO shots as well.

29 Nov 2009 | by miri | 15 Comments

WTF? Final blog and Q&A

Rafa’s final blog and Q&A are up. First the blog.

Hello and goodbye to everyone.

It looks like the blog I have been doing here didn’t bring me the luck as in previous ones … I am already heading today back home and I thought I needed to write this before I leave London.

I have been treated unbelievable well by everyone. By you the fans, by the ATP, the tournament organizers, the hotel people. Everything here has been great except

28 Nov 2009 | by miri | 19 Comments

WTF: post RR3 presser

The transcript of Rafa’s presser can be found here.

Q. How would you describe your performance today compared to your first two matches.

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, it wasn’t bad. Wasn’t enough, but wasn’t really bad.

Yeah, you know, it was a match that I didn’t play for a lot, just to try to finish with not bad feelings. And I think I did for moments. I did some different things than I did the other days. I play some good

28 Nov 2009 | by miri | 11 Comments

WTF: RR3 Spanish TV coverage

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27 Nov 2009 | by miri | 4 Comments

WTF: RR3 post match interview

Rafa’s far too adorable post match interview is up on tennistv.com.

27 Nov 2009 | by miri | 37 Comments

Spanish press starting to pile on?

It would seem so by the Google translation of this story summary:

What happens to Nadal?

16:34′s slump Spanish tennis player generates an extensive debate on his fitness (27/11/2009).

27 Nov 2009 | by miri | 4 Comments

WTF: RR3 photos

Photos by Julian Finney/Getty Images,CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Image, GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images, Clive Brunskill/Getty Images, AP Photo/Sang Tan, and REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

27 Nov 2009 | by miri | 7 Comments

WTF? Done & dusted

Rafa was a dead man walking today in London – he had no chance of making the WTF semis. The match wasn’t totally without consequences, though: Djokovic needed to win in order to have a chance to make the semis and Rafa needed to protect his #2 ranking. The first set went to a tiebreaker with neither contestant playing that well. Rafa’s back stiffened up in the second set and a massage couldn’t keep him from being broken in the 4th game. It felt rather inevitable after that. Nole wins: 6-7(5), 3-6.

27 Nov 2009 | by miri | 118 Comments