Wimbledon 2010: Diario del campeón

Two part Spanish language look at Rafa’s 2010 Wimbledon – lots of interview footage and fun practice footage as well.

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8 Aug 2010 | by miri | 9 Comments

Q&A with the glorious Rafa

Jon Wertheim just posted this post-Wimbly Q&A with Rafa on the SI site – good stuff there-in.

SI.com: How much does history motivate you? Do you know, for instance, whose record you tied today?

Rafael Nadal: The history is there for sure, being part of these players — Connors, Agassi, Lendl — it’s amazing. Just an honor to be close to these players. But I am 24 years old and it’s very difficult to talk about the history now, where I am. In

16 Jul 2010 | by miri | 50 Comments

RafaLint: July 13th

Some random Rafa related bits. First, thanks to Atch2 for tweeting this article about Rafa’s new strings.

Brad Gilbert, the former coach of Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick, likens it to an equipment upgrade in golf, especially in the case of Nadal.

“If everybody is hitting 350 (yards) and you’re hitting 300 it is a disadvantage,” Gilbert says. “Now he’s hitting 350, but he’d still be winning with old strings. He’s just gone modern technology, and I think that’s helping.”

“Obviously it’s helping, but it’s not

14 Jul 2010 | by miri | 14 Comments

RafaLint – July 7th

The Spanish press is all over the World Cup, so not a lot of lint to gather tonight. But here’s a few bits for you:

A Genuine Holstein – by Peter Bodo. Bodo haters will probably hate this too, but I had to include it for the following:

I don’t want to leave you all without a little tennis today, so here’s an anecdote relayed to me by my pal Alejandro Delmas, of the Spanish language Diario As. In his meeting with

7 Jul 2010 | by miri | 9 Comments

Wimbly: Final RafaBlog

Rafa’s found the time to post his final blog and Q&A. Big thanks to Rafangel for sending them to me. First, the blog:

Hello everyone and BIG THANKS to you all.

You can imagine two things of me today: 1) I am over the moon and 2) I am very tired and need holidays!

The first one is difficult to explain further. The sensation to win the tournament of my dreams for the second consecutive time (I didn’t play here last year) and doing it

7 Jul 2010 | by miri | 37 Comments

RafaLint – July 6th

Revitalised Rafael Nadal proves we were wrong to ever doubt him by Simon Cambers

“I love the competition, sport in general and I love to practise,” Nadal said as he contemplated what makes him unique, a couple of hours after his 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over the Czech Tomas Berdych. “You try your best in every moment. When I go to play golf I try to do my best. When I have a football match with friends and we play five-a-side, I don’t

6 Jul 2010 | by miri | 16 Comments

Wimbly: ATP Uncovered

This week’s ATP Uncovered features Rafa reflecting on this Wimbledon win (with very stirring music *cough*) and looking forward to the US Open:

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6 Jul 2010 | by miri | 11 Comments

Wimbly: Good enough to be boring

Tignor posts his grades for Wimbledon. Someone got a very good one.

The last three Wimbledon men’s finals were all-time classics that lasted into the early London evening. So when Nadal hit a winning crosscourt forehand to end this year’s final, it seemed way too early in the day for the match to be over. When he fell on the cracked brown dirt at the baseline, it hardly seemed like the end of a Wimbledon final at all. There’d been no seesaw drama.

6 Jul 2010 | by miri | 38 Comments

Back home

Rafa’s back home…where he’s treated like a normal guy. ;)

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5 Jul 2010 | by miri | 27 Comments

Anyone else got a Wimbly hangover?

I sure do! Here’s some hair of the dog…

Per Inés, this video starts with Rafa leaving the knee clinic in Vitoria this morning…

….and then cramming his legs in the back seat.

Rafa in a tux:

(In case that’s region blocked, try this one on YouTube.)

Team Nadal playing tennis footie:

5 Jul 2010 | by miri | 19 Comments