RC: Open Court’s videos

Stephanie Myles over at Open Court has a couple of Rafole videos up:

Match play
Mainly about Rafa’s picking habit

Rafa’s first up in the night session tonight. I hope my mom doesn’t mind me not taking her out for birthday dinner…

11 Aug 2010 | by miri | 3 Comments

RC: Doubles Videos [Updated]

First set highlights – the Rafa facepalm cracks me up.

Set two highlights:

The last part of the doubles super tiebreak:

Posted by Midnightsnack09 – and it’s definitely snack-tastic.

10 Aug 2010 | by miri | 13 Comments

RafaLint: August 9th

Failure’s No Success at All – by Steve Tignor

The article is mainly about Fed, but there’s this bit about last night’s doubles:

Later, too much later, we finally had a chance to see the No. 1 and 2 players, Nadal and Novak Djokovic, line up on the same side of the court for the first time since Ashe and Connors did it in 1976. While Rafa and Nole weren’t as odd a couple as those two must have been, they didn’t exactly gel as a team, losing to two gawky young unknowns in a super-tiebreaker. With the no-ad scoring and

10 Aug 2010 | by miri | 16 Comments

RC: Rafole match blatherings

Since Sia was one of the blessed Canadians who got to actually watch the doubles match, she decided to try her hand at a “as it happened blatherings” report.

So … finally nice evening.

Everyone’s in all white. Rafole vs Pop and Milos. Rafa’s wearing a headband, no wrist bands (just a watch), and is very smiley. Nole – perky. The Canadians look like junior high schoolers but serious.

Ok already the score is 3-2 Canada leading … so

10 Aug 2010 | by sia | 21 Comments

RC: Rafole photos and some vids

Just a few, but here they are:

Photos by REUTERS/ Mike Cassese, AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn and Matthew Stockman/Getty Images

And never tell a Rafole fan they can’t watch or share. They will try anything to share the giddiness that is Rafole…even recording off the TV with an iPhone:
One, Two, and Three

Photos posted to Facebook:
One and Two

9 Aug 2010 | by miri | 20 Comments

RC: Rafole denied

Rafa and Djokovic (aka Rafole) took on a Canadian duo of Pospisil/Raonic (aka Posonic). The organizers of the tournament worked hard to get the match on Canadian TV…the rest of the world was out of luck, however. Despite this being the only the second time that the #1 and #2 players have teamed up – the first time was Connors/Ashe in 1976 (that combo still boggles my mind). They played well, but couldn’t quite pull it off. Posonic win: 5-7, 6-3, 10-8.

9 Aug 2010 | by miri | 27 Comments

RC: Day two around the web

So far, not a lot bubbling up from today. I think some players practiced indoors because of rain, perhaps that’s why. Or perhaps people just haven’t had time to post yet.

Here’s a longer version of the Rafole footie tennis session – and it’s 100% security guard free! I didn’t realize from the other video that it was Benito playing on Rafa’s side. Not that he gets near the ball that much. Love it when Rafa throws the ball at him in mock disgust at the end…and the Nole/coach celebration is a hoot.

8 Aug 2010 | by miri | 37 Comments

RC: Practice vids

From Open Court (thanks, johanne):

Rafa looked a little rusty, got aggravated with himself some. Uncle Tony won’t be there until the U.S. Open, so it was stand-in coach Francisco Roig.

The Djoker was still doing the Kleenex thing, these allergies that have been getting to him. But he was by far the sharper of the two.

Rafole footie tennis (with annoyingly placed security guard):

Posted by lenntran.

Short one:

7 Aug 2010 | by miri | 6 Comments

RG: Round 2 wrap up

Bits and pieces – some more bits than pieces. Most of the press articles just seem to have quotes from the presser and not much insight into the match, so I’m skipping them.

More complete presser videos: English; Spanish
rtves report – very similar to embedded vid below, skip if you are short on time
iB3 report and interview – in Mallorquí with Spanish subtitles
Match highlights
Nole/Troicki do Gypsy

Post match Spanish interview with translation by Bee (do not post her translation elsewhere without her permission):

28 May 2010 | by miri | 17 Comments

Rome: Hanging with football players

Rafa (and Nole) appear to be forgiven for jinxing Roma as some players came to watch Rafa’s match today and then meet up with him after. Looks like they brought along some bored WAGs. Or were those provided by the tennis tournament? Any way, here’s the vid – if it’s no longer the featured video, click on the link labeled, “Nadal incontra i giocatori della Roma” – love the “chatting up” pose at the end, Rafa. (Thanks to Viva for posting a link.)

@Meriko1 saved out a copy on YouTube in case the one on the federation

28 Apr 2010 | by miri | 34 Comments