RG: 7/11
Another slam final and it’s Rafa and Nole. This is getting to be a habit. Rafa came out on fire, but that didn’t last too long. What followed was best described by sharlatee on twitter as “all kinds of wow and weird”. Each guy would play amazing points alternating with odd errors and nervous looking shots. One guy would step up and start playing well just as the other would turn into an error making machine. It was not pretty.
RafaLint: June 10th
Lots of frustrated reports on a frustrating partial match, frustrated tennis players, and very frustrating weather – today’s lint.
RG: Final photos part 1
Photos from today’s action in the “to be continued” Roland Garros final.
Photos by PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/GettyImages, REUTERS/Regis Duvignau, Clive Brunskill/Getty Images, PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/GettyImages, KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/GettyImages, REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes, THOMAS COEX/AFP/GettyImages, PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/GettyImages, Mike Hewitt/Getty Images, Matthew Stockman/Getty Images, and AP Photo/Michel Euler
Also, check out the album posted to the Roland Garros Facebook account.
RG: Interview for Stade 2
Interview (in Spanish and French) for the French TV station Stade 2 – hope it’s not blocked for anyone! Rafa looks relaxed and smiling. (It’s dated yesterday.)
ROLAND GARROS 2012 – Interview Rafael NADAL -… by VideosMediaStudio
RG: Play Suspended
Rafa and Djokovic’s Roland Garros final will continue tomorrow. Play for today is officially suspended due to the weather. They will be back tomorrow at 1pm local time. The even worse news is that the weather forecast for tomorrow doesn’t look good. At all.
Current score: 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 1-2 – Rafa down a break in the 4th.
RG: Shoot Rafa a message
Support Rafa in his quest for a 7th Roland Garros – Shoot him a message via Nike!
RafaLint: June 9th
Write ups of the semi match, predictions for the final (the word “historic” gets bandied about a lot), flickr photos, and some locker room footage – today’s lint.
RG: Pre-final presser
Video excerpt from Rafa’s pre-final presser.
And more can be found here – it’s not region blocked for me, hope it’s the same for everyone:
And now, the transcript:
Q. There are a lot of talk about the weather tomorrow, that maybe it is going to rain all day, and the final could be moved to Monday. Have you been said anything about it? What do you think?
RAFAEL NADAL: What I can think? What can I think? If rains, rains, then we play Monday. That’s all.
Q. Nobody
RG: Semifinal videos
Posted by igorjosifoski12345. There’s another version here – click on the video link on the left side of the page.
Rafa and Daveed before the match.
Highlights reel via the Roland Garros site.
The “I hate region blocking” section:
Highlights
Courtside interview
Eurosport interview (a low-fi version for the rest of us).
In the “It’s a free world” section:
Post match interview for French TV.
And an interview for CANAL+ or you can watch it on the channel’s site – if it works for you.
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