Google translates the title of this article to “Nadal intimate: his doubts, pressures, life” – which is clearly an overstatement on the depth of the article. The interview took place during the Australian Open, so I’m assuming it was pre-injury. (But have had a lot of sugar this afternoon, so my mental faculties aren’t what they should be.) Thanks to CC for sending in the link.

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

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Posted by australianopentv – thanks Atch2.

Rafa sent in one last blog entry to the heraldsun site.

Hello everyone,

I didn’t want to leave without saying goodbye and thanks. I had a great time during my stay in Melbourne.

It is obvious I would have loved to be there today, writing this blog from my Melbourne hotel room waiting for the final.

*sniff*

But this year it was not meant to be. I really felt great during my stay in Australia.

The people there are simply amazing, it’s one of the nicest countries

Some nice ones to browse through…

shelly9141’s photos of a practice session – the racket and string people can look at the original sized photos for details; the rest of us can use those to drool over
delsblog’s photos of the Rafa/Murray match
Assorted photos from Richard and Michael
sashinmania’s Nadal in action set
La Rusa Loca’s photos

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

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)

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

At least, that’s what this article at marca.com suggests. (Thanks to Jamee for sending in the link.) Google translation:

An MRI ruled today the precise scope of the Injury
Nadal will be out for a month …

After solving their problems in the foot with the templates, the knees have now become the main Achilles heel of Spanish • He will miss at least the tournament in Rotterdam and the Davis Cup

JOAN SOLSONA. Melbourne 28/01/10 – 13:20

Rafael Nadal at noon

Rafa and knee fluff from around the web.

Nadal back in Spain for more tests

“We don’t know the scope of the injury but there is something going on in there, something that wasn’t there before,” uncle and coach Toni Nadal told Spanish media from Australia. “Something felt wrong and it was the right decision to retire.”

…

“You’re always worried about these things, it’s normal,” Toni Nadal said. “It appears not to be what he had before and something else, but we must be prudent and wait and see.”

Rafael Nadal keeps his dignity despite worrying exit from Australian Open

He welcomed us