RafaLint: April 26th

Photo by AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Sadly, it looks like I’ll be missing Rafa’s match tomorrow because I’ll be doing a fundraising walk for Arthritis research and awareness. I’ll check scores while walking, but please say a few Vamoses for me.

Articles:

ATP World Tour – Nadal, Raonic Pull Double Duty; Almagro To Face Kohlschreiber – via atpworldtour.com
Rafael Nadal advances to semis – AP via espn.com
Rafael Nadal wins two matches in a day to reach Barcelona semis – via bbc.co.uk
Nadal breezes through in

26 Apr 2013 | by miri | 4 Comments

Barcelona: 3rd round and quarterfinal photos

Photos from both matches Rafa played today.

Photos by David Ramos/Getty Images

26 Apr 2013 | by miri | One Comment

Barcelona: Double header

Photo by Beth Wilson

To make up for yesterday’s non-stop rain, Rafa had to play two matches today in Barcelona. He started his day with a defeat of #33 Benoit Paire 7-6(2), 6-2. Rafa folloed that up with a drubbing of #64 Albert Ramos. Nice scores, but Rafa still needs to steady his backhand – it went from brilliant to “oh my” bad in a nano-second.

26 Apr 2013 | by miri | 43 Comments

Barcelona: 3rd round match video

Full match video of Rafa’s defeat of Benoit Paire this morning on Barcelona.

Posted by TennisOnlineHD.

26 Apr 2013 | by miri | No Comment

MC: Two down, three to go

Photo by Beth Wilson

Rafa handily defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2, 6-4 in the third round of the 2013 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. And that’s about all I’m going to write because it’s 11:30pm, I’ve had free French wine, and I still need to work on my photos.

18 Apr 2013 | by miri | 6 Comments

IW: 4th round photos

Photos from Rafa’s win over Gulbis.

Photos by REUTERS/Danny Moloshok, Stephen Dunn/Getty Images, and Matthew Stockman/Getty Images

14 Mar 2013 | by miri | No Comment

IW: 4th round presser transcript

Photo by AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Rafa’s post 4th round match presser is up on ASAP Sports:

Q. You certainly held the crowd. Did they inspire you? That was an awful lot of noise for you out there today.

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, all the support of the crowd since I am coming back every place, you know, around every tournament that I played was amazing, and today was not an exception.

I just can say thank you very much all the fans. You know, in

14 Mar 2013 | by miri | 4 Comments

IW: 4th round match video

Full match video in two parts.

Part one:

Part two:

Posted by TennisOnlineHD.

14 Mar 2013 | by miri | 2 Comments

IW: A nail-biter with a happy ending

Photo by AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

After his surprise 3rd round walkover, Rafa had a challenge on his hand in the 4th as he played an in form and recently re-dedicated to tennis Ernests Gulbis. Both men held serve with relative ease until the 10th game when two errors from Rafa (one absolutely horrid) gave Gulbis the break and the set: 6-4.

Rafa broke in the first game of the 2nd set, but Gulbis broke back in the 4th. Gulbis’s brain went on a

13 Mar 2013 | by miri | 47 Comments

RafaLint: February 28th

Today’s lint includes: post R16 write-ups and interviews, r16 match highlights, and breakfast sausages.

28 Feb 2013 | by miri | 3 Comments