Madrid post semi-final interview

TennisTV.com has the English and Spanish semi-final interviews up.

16 May 2009 | 13 Comments

Even more flickr fun

You want to see some real photos instead of the crap ones I took? Take a look at jgirl4858’s flickr stream. (She doesn’t do sets, so here’s a link directly to her Rafa photos from this year and last.)

7 Apr 2009 | One Comment

Watching Murray/Massu

After his third round match against Gil, Rafa snuck out of the locker room to take a look at the Murray/Massu match.

5 Apr 2009 | 3 Comments

Post round 3 interview #2

So that’s why he was sitting in that chair forever, he gave two different TV interviews.

5 Apr 2009 | No Comment

Post match presser

Via the ESPN site:

3 Apr 2009 | No Comment

Quarterfinal highlights & post match interview

Rafa’s post match interview can be found on TennisTV.com.

Two videos of the quarterfinal match can be found on the GoTOTENNIS site.

And there’s a Thursday highlight real over on the ATP site:

3 Apr 2009 | No Comment

First Miami doubles match photos

paiasoloco has some photos from Marc! and Rafa’s first double’s match in Miami – including this wonderful smiley photo. Check out the photographer’s blog as well.

2 Apr 2009 | No Comment

Quarterfinal match photos

Some photos from today’s match.

(Photos by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images, Matthew Stockman/Getty Images, Al Bello/Getty Images, and REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

2 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments

Del Potro squeaks by Rafa

Not too long after their last match-up, Rafa and Del Potro meet again in a Masters event – this time in the quarterfinal. DelPo took his first ever set from Rafa, but the Rafa came back strong in the second. The third was a tight roller-coaster set that went to a tiebreaker which Rafa lost. Rafa is out of the tournament: 4-6 6-3 6-7(3-7).

2 Apr 2009 | 31 Comments

Local guy has a busy hitting day with the top 2 players

Offer to play with Rafael Nadal no joke

No tennis fan in the world had a better Wednesday than 25-year-old Eric Hechtman of Miami. The former Sunset High and University of Miami tennis player spent 90 minutes hitting with top-ranked Rafael Nadal and a few hours later was back on the court with No. 2 Roger Federer.

Hechtman got a text message at 7:15 a.m. from UM coach Mario Rincon that read: “Rafa wants to hit with you today.”

Hechtman laughed. ”I figured it was an April Fool’s joke,” he said.

It was no joke. Rafa was looking for a hitting partner

2 Apr 2009 | No Comment