6/29/2013
6/28/2013
6/26/2013
'Rafa has come through so many difficult situations' says old amigo | Herald Scotland
The
former world No.1 is a fellow Mallorcan, a family friend and even a
member of the man from Manacor's extended entourage. He was first
enlisted as a hitting partner when he was 22 and his fellow islander
just 12; first suffered the indignity of losing to him on the tour in
Hamburg a few years
Video : La tensa entrevista de Rafa #Nadal tras su derrota en Wimbledonhttp://www.cuatro.com/deportes/tenis/tensa-entrevista-Nadal-derrota-Wimbledon_2_1625955098.html
Video: Toni Nadal speaks to Sky NewS ''Toni Nadal: Rafa Will Be Back''
Rafael Nadal's coach, Toni Nadal, says his nephew will return to play at Wimbledon in the future.
The reigning French Open champion suffered a shock defeat to Belgium's Steve Darcis in the opening round of this year's championships.
During the first-round encounter, the world number five appeared to suffer from a recurrence of a long-standing knee injury - prompting speculation over his grass court future.
His long-standing coach "Uncle Toni", however, insists the two-times Wimbledon champion will be back to compete at the All England Club.
"We love so much to play here, " he said
"I hope next year he will play so much better because this tournament is very special - it was (the scene of) one of Rafael’s greatest wins in 2008.
"For us, playing Wimbledon is always in our minds."
Toni Nadal added that no decision had been made over when Rafa would return to action.
"I don't know exactly - maybe we can play on clay a little, or we can go to the United States. I don't know."
http://news.sky.com/story/1108329/toni-nadal-rafa-will-be-back
Rafael Nadal's coach, Toni Nadal, says his nephew will return to play at Wimbledon in the future.
The reigning French Open champion suffered a shock defeat to Belgium's Steve Darcis in the opening round of this year's championships.
During the first-round encounter, the world number five appeared to suffer from a recurrence of a long-standing knee injury - prompting speculation over his grass court future.
His long-standing coach "Uncle Toni", however, insists the two-times Wimbledon champion will be back to compete at the All England Club.
"We love so much to play here, " he said
"I hope next year he will play so much better because this tournament is very special - it was (the scene of) one of Rafael’s greatest wins in 2008.
"For us, playing Wimbledon is always in our minds."
Toni Nadal added that no decision had been made over when Rafa would return to action.
"I don't know exactly - maybe we can play on clay a little, or we can go to the United States. I don't know."
http://news.sky.com/story/1108329/toni-nadal-rafa-will-be-back
Uncle Toni: Rafa's defeat not down to injury
Toni Nadal has insisted that Rafael Nadal's shock Wimbledon defeat to Steve Darcis was on account of form rather than fitness.
In his first competitive outing since winning an eighth French Open title at Roland Garros, Nadal - who missed seven months on account of injury following his Wimbledon defeat 12 months ago - was dumped out in straight sets by world No. 135 Darcis.
Nadal's movement was sluggish throughout and he looked to be limping during the third set, but he refused to blame his suspect knees for his defeat. And Toni Nadal, who is the player's coach and uncle, has insisted that is the case, suggesting the Spaniard's intensity levels dropped following his victory in Paris.
"For winning every match you should play better and Rafael did not play good," Toni Nadal told Sky Sports News. "I think that after the injury Rafael was out for seven months, he has come back to tournaments and he has played very well and has had good success.
"I think after Roland Garros he went down a little bit with his intensity. His physical condition was the same as Roland Garros. In Roland Garros we won but here we lost.
"It is true that it is difficult for him to play here but he was in the same condition as at Roland Garros."
Toni Nadal has insisted that Rafael Nadal's shock Wimbledon defeat to Steve Darcis was on account of form rather than fitness.
In his first competitive outing since winning an eighth French Open title at Roland Garros, Nadal - who missed seven months on account of injury following his Wimbledon defeat 12 months ago - was dumped out in straight sets by world No. 135 Darcis.
Nadal's movement was sluggish throughout and he looked to be limping during the third set, but he refused to blame his suspect knees for his defeat. And Toni Nadal, who is the player's coach and uncle, has insisted that is the case, suggesting the Spaniard's intensity levels dropped following his victory in Paris.
"For winning every match you should play better and Rafael did not play good," Toni Nadal told Sky Sports News. "I think that after the injury Rafael was out for seven months, he has come back to tournaments and he has played very well and has had good success.
"I think after Roland Garros he went down a little bit with his intensity. His physical condition was the same as Roland Garros. In Roland Garros we won but here we lost.
"It is true that it is difficult for him to play here but he was in the same condition as at Roland Garros."
Uncle Toni: Rafa's defeat not down to injury
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Toni Nadal has insisted that Rafael Nadal's shock Wimbledon defeat to Steve Darcis was on account of form rather than fitness
6/25/2013
The official spokesman of Rafa Nadal, Benito
Perez Barbadillo said that Nadal has traveled to Barcelona to visit the
doctor's office of the federation, Angel Ruiz Cotorro.
Moreover, Barbadillo said Nadal not know which tournaments will play before the U.S. Open.
SOURCE:http://www.mallorcaesports.es/tenis/item/8006-nadal-viaja-a-barcelona-para-visitar-al-doctor-angel-ruiz-cotorro
Moreover, Barbadillo said Nadal not know which tournaments will play before the U.S. Open.
SOURCE:http://www.mallorcaesports.es/tenis/item/8006-nadal-viaja-a-barcelona-para-visitar-al-doctor-angel-ruiz-cotorro
Before Rafa Nadal played Darcis today he took
anti-inflammatories. Had discomfort in his knee during practice before
his premiere in #Wimbledon!
Source: https://twitter.com/Rafael_Plaza/status/349316858677170177
Source: https://twitter.com/Rafael_Plaza/status/349316858677170177
John McEnroe: Rafael Nadal is the best ever, even with a first-round Wimbledon losshttp://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/tennis-busted-racquet/john-mcenroe-rafael-nadal-best-ever-even-first-164644632.html
6/24/2013
Rafael Nadal Press conf. after first round loss at Wimbledon (Transcript)
Rafael Nadal Press conf. after first round at Wimbledon (Transcript)
Monday 24 June 2013
Rafael Nadal gives his Wimbledon press conference following his 7-6(4) 7-6(8) 6-4 first round loss to Steve Darcis.
Q. What would you say went wrong today and what went right, if anything? What happened?
RAFAEL NADAL: Happen that is sport. And sometimes you play well and you have the chance to win. Sometimes you play worst and the opponent play well and you lose.
That's the good thing about the sport. That's all.
Good things today for me was not a lot of things good. But, you know, just congratulate Darcis. I think he played with the right decision, played well, and that's all.
Q. We saw you limping a little bit out there. Was there an injury reason or physical reason for this loss?
RAFAEL NADAL: Is not the right day. I tried my best out there in every moment. Was not possible for me this afternoon, and that's all.
The opponent played well. I had my chances. I didn't make it. So in grass is difficult to adapt yourself, to adapt your game. When you don't have the chance to play before, I didn't have that chance this year, is tougher. I didn't find my rhythm.
Q. What did you do after the French? How long did you have off? How long did you practice maybe on a hard court at home before you came to the grass?
RAFAEL NADAL: I arrived here on Tuesday. Before that I was working at home on the gym and trying to make the right things to recover my body from a very long and success straight tournaments.
So that's all, no? Nothing special.
Q. How much of a blow was it for you not being able to play at Halle in the context of this tournament?
RAFAEL NADAL: I didn't have that chance this year to play on Halle. So is tough to talk right now. The only thing that is important today is that even I don't play Halle is obviously I wanted to play, yes.
But today we cannot come back. We cannot come two weeks before. That what happened. I didn't have that chance. I tried my best. Was not possible. That's all I can say. Just congratulate the opponent. At the end is not a tragedy. That is sport.
Q. How is the situation similar or different from last year when you lost here?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't see any comparation [sic] at all. I really don't know how to answer this question.
Q. Well, last year you said you were hurt after the loss to Rosol. How is the situation now with you?
RAFAEL NADAL: With what?
Q. With your physical condition.
RAFAEL NADAL: I say before I think is not the day to talk about these kind of things. I am confident that I will have a good recover and be ready for the next tournaments.
I played much more than what I dreamed before here after the injury. So that's a fantastic and very positive thing for me. I know the grass is a difficult surface for the way that I need to play to play well here.
Was not possible this year. I gonna try my best for the next couple of years.
Q. Did you have any sign at practice in previous days that it was going to be a tough first round here? How big is the disappointment?
RAFAEL NADAL: You was here on Saturday? I said is probably the toughest surface for me today, because I had to move and I have to play in a lower position than in the rest of the surfaces.
So that's the real thing. I was not lying to nobody on Saturday. So that's all. I gonna keep working hard for the next.
Q. You turned a lot around your backhand to play your forehand, and also you didn't move that well. Was your knee 100% today?
RAFAEL NADAL: I think you are joking. I answered this question three times or four times already. I don't gonna talk about my knee this afternoon.
Only thing that can say today is congratulate Steve Darcis. He played a fantastic match. Everything that I will say today about my knee is an excuse, and I don't like to put any excuse when I'm losing a match like I lost today.
He deserve not one excuse.
Q. You talked a little bit in Paris about your schedule, adjusting it. I'm wondering if you think you might need to look at that more closely. Obviously you love playing on the clay, but it's a lot of matches. Is that something you think going forward you need to look at more closely?
RAFAEL NADAL: What? I didn't understand that.
Q. In Paris you talked about your schedule, maybe adjusting it. I'm wondering if you think physically it's a lot on your body to play so much on clay, even though you love that surface.
RAFAEL NADAL: If I play too much? That's the question?
Q. I'm wondering if you need to look at your schedule.
RAFAEL NADAL: In which way?
Q. To play less in the spring.
RAFAEL NADAL: To play less?
Q. Yes.
RAFAEL NADAL: I cannot predict the future. I cannot say when I do a calendar if it was wrong or if it was positive. Since six hours ago was a perfect calendar, now is a very negative calendar. That's not true.
I played, as I said, since I came back after the injury, I played when I had the feeling that I can play. And my feelings were that I played the weeks that I felt right to play.
And to here is Wimbledon, so I try to arrive as good as possible to this tournament, knowing that probably this year will be harder than ever, and it really was.
So that's all, no? The calendar was for me perfect, winning seven tournaments of the nine, and playing two finals. I cannot say I will make something different today because I will not. I will repeat my calendar. My season has been fantastic, much better than what I have thought five months ago. So I am happy about everything.
I know that that thing, that lose of today, can happen, and it happened. That's all.
Q. Do you still feel you can come back and win this championship again?
RAFAEL NADAL: I didn't know that in 2003 and 2004 and 2005, 2006 and 2007, so... I don't know that.
The only thing I can say I can do is keep working hard and keep giving me chances about my game on this surface. I think and I hope to have a few more years to play here and to play at the right level. I was not able to play great this year or last year. It's obviously. But I gonna try.
Q. Last year after you lost to Rosol we didn't see you for seven months. What should we expect this time? Can we be optimistic and see you when? Which tournament are you planning to come back?
RAFAEL NADAL: Not very late. Not that late, for sure.
Q. When you came back over here in February, was the French Open always your priority? Of the three majors left, was the French your priority or was it equal with Wimbledon?
RAFAEL NADAL: Seriously, I don't have a priority. I try my best in every tournament, even if is a 250, is a 500, or is a Grand Slam. Is obvious, you know, the Roland Garros championship adapts better to my game.
But in this sport, I don't see a way that you can prepare one tournament in particular. I think you don't have that chance because depends on a lot of things. You need to win matches when you arrive to important tournament to be confident. You need to play matches to be enough fit. Then I try my best in every one.
Sometimes I arrive good in one, worse in another. That's all. I tried and I played that way during all my career.
Q. Even as well as Darcis played, that has to be a disappointing loss. Are you able to let it go right away or does it sting for a few days?
RAFAEL NADAL: Life continues, that's all. I say before, is not a dramatic thing. That's the sport. That's the game at the end.
Two weeks ago I was in a fantastic situation, winning a fantastic tournament. Two weeks later I lost here in the first round. That's the positive and the negative thing about this sport.
Is tough losing in the first round. But, as I said before, the tour continues, life continues, and this is a sport of victories. It's not a sport of lose. Nobody remember the loses. People remember the victories. And I don't want to remember that lose.
Q. You've said that only an arrogant man would not have doubts. You've said that a couple of times now. Do you have some doubts on your play on grass? And are you proud of your legacy on grass for a person who was brought up on clay?
RAFAEL NADAL: Obviously I have doubts. I have doubts on grass. I have doubts on clay and hard, for sure in indoor.
If I don't have doubts is because I really don't feel the passion for this game. You don't see myself with doubts the first week of Roland Garros? Yes, with a lot of doubts.
Today I play with doubts. I lost, yes.
Q. But you're proud of your grass court play?
RAFAEL NADAL: If I'm proud today?
Q. Not today. Over the years, what you have done on grass.
RAFAEL NADAL: What do you think? Five finals, two victories. I don't know how many players have that. I think for me is a lot. That don't mean I not going to keep trying to have success in this surface.
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/interviews/2013-06-24/201306241372099884415.html
Monday 24 June 2013
Rafael Nadal gives his Wimbledon press conference following his 7-6(4) 7-6(8) 6-4 first round loss to Steve Darcis.
Q. What would you say went wrong today and what went right, if anything? What happened?
RAFAEL NADAL: Happen that is sport. And sometimes you play well and you have the chance to win. Sometimes you play worst and the opponent play well and you lose.
That's the good thing about the sport. That's all.
Good things today for me was not a lot of things good. But, you know, just congratulate Darcis. I think he played with the right decision, played well, and that's all.
Q. We saw you limping a little bit out there. Was there an injury reason or physical reason for this loss?
RAFAEL NADAL: Is not the right day. I tried my best out there in every moment. Was not possible for me this afternoon, and that's all.
The opponent played well. I had my chances. I didn't make it. So in grass is difficult to adapt yourself, to adapt your game. When you don't have the chance to play before, I didn't have that chance this year, is tougher. I didn't find my rhythm.
Q. What did you do after the French? How long did you have off? How long did you practice maybe on a hard court at home before you came to the grass?
RAFAEL NADAL: I arrived here on Tuesday. Before that I was working at home on the gym and trying to make the right things to recover my body from a very long and success straight tournaments.
So that's all, no? Nothing special.
Q. How much of a blow was it for you not being able to play at Halle in the context of this tournament?
RAFAEL NADAL: I didn't have that chance this year to play on Halle. So is tough to talk right now. The only thing that is important today is that even I don't play Halle is obviously I wanted to play, yes.
But today we cannot come back. We cannot come two weeks before. That what happened. I didn't have that chance. I tried my best. Was not possible. That's all I can say. Just congratulate the opponent. At the end is not a tragedy. That is sport.
Q. How is the situation similar or different from last year when you lost here?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't see any comparation [sic] at all. I really don't know how to answer this question.
Q. Well, last year you said you were hurt after the loss to Rosol. How is the situation now with you?
RAFAEL NADAL: With what?
Q. With your physical condition.
RAFAEL NADAL: I say before I think is not the day to talk about these kind of things. I am confident that I will have a good recover and be ready for the next tournaments.
I played much more than what I dreamed before here after the injury. So that's a fantastic and very positive thing for me. I know the grass is a difficult surface for the way that I need to play to play well here.
Was not possible this year. I gonna try my best for the next couple of years.
Q. Did you have any sign at practice in previous days that it was going to be a tough first round here? How big is the disappointment?
RAFAEL NADAL: You was here on Saturday? I said is probably the toughest surface for me today, because I had to move and I have to play in a lower position than in the rest of the surfaces.
So that's the real thing. I was not lying to nobody on Saturday. So that's all. I gonna keep working hard for the next.
Q. You turned a lot around your backhand to play your forehand, and also you didn't move that well. Was your knee 100% today?
RAFAEL NADAL: I think you are joking. I answered this question three times or four times already. I don't gonna talk about my knee this afternoon.
Only thing that can say today is congratulate Steve Darcis. He played a fantastic match. Everything that I will say today about my knee is an excuse, and I don't like to put any excuse when I'm losing a match like I lost today.
He deserve not one excuse.
Q. You talked a little bit in Paris about your schedule, adjusting it. I'm wondering if you think you might need to look at that more closely. Obviously you love playing on the clay, but it's a lot of matches. Is that something you think going forward you need to look at more closely?
RAFAEL NADAL: What? I didn't understand that.
Q. In Paris you talked about your schedule, maybe adjusting it. I'm wondering if you think physically it's a lot on your body to play so much on clay, even though you love that surface.
RAFAEL NADAL: If I play too much? That's the question?
Q. I'm wondering if you need to look at your schedule.
RAFAEL NADAL: In which way?
Q. To play less in the spring.
RAFAEL NADAL: To play less?
Q. Yes.
RAFAEL NADAL: I cannot predict the future. I cannot say when I do a calendar if it was wrong or if it was positive. Since six hours ago was a perfect calendar, now is a very negative calendar. That's not true.
I played, as I said, since I came back after the injury, I played when I had the feeling that I can play. And my feelings were that I played the weeks that I felt right to play.
And to here is Wimbledon, so I try to arrive as good as possible to this tournament, knowing that probably this year will be harder than ever, and it really was.
So that's all, no? The calendar was for me perfect, winning seven tournaments of the nine, and playing two finals. I cannot say I will make something different today because I will not. I will repeat my calendar. My season has been fantastic, much better than what I have thought five months ago. So I am happy about everything.
I know that that thing, that lose of today, can happen, and it happened. That's all.
Q. Do you still feel you can come back and win this championship again?
RAFAEL NADAL: I didn't know that in 2003 and 2004 and 2005, 2006 and 2007, so... I don't know that.
The only thing I can say I can do is keep working hard and keep giving me chances about my game on this surface. I think and I hope to have a few more years to play here and to play at the right level. I was not able to play great this year or last year. It's obviously. But I gonna try.
Q. Last year after you lost to Rosol we didn't see you for seven months. What should we expect this time? Can we be optimistic and see you when? Which tournament are you planning to come back?
RAFAEL NADAL: Not very late. Not that late, for sure.
Q. When you came back over here in February, was the French Open always your priority? Of the three majors left, was the French your priority or was it equal with Wimbledon?
RAFAEL NADAL: Seriously, I don't have a priority. I try my best in every tournament, even if is a 250, is a 500, or is a Grand Slam. Is obvious, you know, the Roland Garros championship adapts better to my game.
But in this sport, I don't see a way that you can prepare one tournament in particular. I think you don't have that chance because depends on a lot of things. You need to win matches when you arrive to important tournament to be confident. You need to play matches to be enough fit. Then I try my best in every one.
Sometimes I arrive good in one, worse in another. That's all. I tried and I played that way during all my career.
Q. Even as well as Darcis played, that has to be a disappointing loss. Are you able to let it go right away or does it sting for a few days?
RAFAEL NADAL: Life continues, that's all. I say before, is not a dramatic thing. That's the sport. That's the game at the end.
Two weeks ago I was in a fantastic situation, winning a fantastic tournament. Two weeks later I lost here in the first round. That's the positive and the negative thing about this sport.
Is tough losing in the first round. But, as I said before, the tour continues, life continues, and this is a sport of victories. It's not a sport of lose. Nobody remember the loses. People remember the victories. And I don't want to remember that lose.
Q. You've said that only an arrogant man would not have doubts. You've said that a couple of times now. Do you have some doubts on your play on grass? And are you proud of your legacy on grass for a person who was brought up on clay?
RAFAEL NADAL: Obviously I have doubts. I have doubts on grass. I have doubts on clay and hard, for sure in indoor.
If I don't have doubts is because I really don't feel the passion for this game. You don't see myself with doubts the first week of Roland Garros? Yes, with a lot of doubts.
Today I play with doubts. I lost, yes.
Q. But you're proud of your grass court play?
RAFAEL NADAL: If I'm proud today?
Q. Not today. Over the years, what you have done on grass.
RAFAEL NADAL: What do you think? Five finals, two victories. I don't know how many players have that. I think for me is a lot. That don't mean I not going to keep trying to have success in this surface.
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/interviews/2013-06-24/201306241372099884415.html
6/23/2013
@RafaelNadal: "The grass surface is more complicated for my knee"
The Spanish Rafael Nadal, seeded fifth Wimbledon starting on Monday warned that the grass is one of the worst surfaces to his left knee, which has kept more than seven months out of the loop.
Nadal said that in the last Roland Garros "things were so unbeatable". "During the tournament go through different phases, from less to more. When you're able to finish things better as you start is that you are mentally prepared to face challenges," he said.
Adaptation to the surface in London
Almost without transition, after resting a few days in Mallorca, Nadal arrived in London on Tuesday to try to complete the adjustment from clay to grass in less than a week.
"I never had big problems with that.'ve Got to play different mentally prepare for certain things, play focused at all times, especially with your service, because if you lose you're in serious trouble throughout the set," analyzed the player.
"In two years we will have a new calendar, three weeks before Wimbledon, and I think that will be fantastic. Players that reach the final days of Roland Garros will have more options to properly prepare a major tournament like this," said Nadal.
The 'nightmare' with roller began in Wimbledon
The Spaniard recalled how last season played "infiltrated" from the first round of Wimbledon, until the young Czech Lukas Rosol finished him in the second round, a turning point that marked the beginning of the "year of transition" Nadal, who reappeared not on a track to more than seven months later.
"I suffered too. Can suffer if you are in the final rounds, then yes you can infiltrate, but playing infiltrated from the beginning is not a good decision," he recalled.
Nadal is presented this year at the All England Club, where he has won twice (2008 and 2010), as the fifth-seeded.
"It is a discussion that is longer, but, the way you are doing the ranking, it's completely fair that I'm the fifth. (David) Ferrer has earned the privilege of being number four," said Nadal.
The herb "is perhaps the most difficult surface for my knee. Positions to be taken on the track are very low, and there is much flex where else feel the knee," Nadal said in the press conference after the London tournament , who hopes to win for the third time on Monday.
The Spaniard is presented at the All England Club after winning in Paris two weeks ago with his eighth Roland Garros and faces a complicated picture that could lead to face Roger Federer in the quarterfinals and Andy Murray in the semifinals, before a hypothetical final in what could wait Novak Djokovic or David Ferrer Spanish also.
"Not to mention the box because I do not like to talk about rounds that have not happened yet (...) Hopefully I can play well the first day, try to go a few rounds and, if so, I'll have options," said Spanish .
"Muscularly there is no problem, I played a lot of tennis in recent months and I'm ready. Another thing is the knee, is a challenge for me to play on grass, really. Tournaments in land and fast track that I played so far I've had a good result in terms of physical sensations, "said fifth ATP player.
Nadal said that in the last Roland Garros "things were so unbeatable". "During the tournament go through different phases, from less to more. When you're able to finish things better as you start is that you are mentally prepared to face challenges," he said.
Adaptation to the surface in London
Almost without transition, after resting a few days in Mallorca, Nadal arrived in London on Tuesday to try to complete the adjustment from clay to grass in less than a week.
"I never had big problems with that.'ve Got to play different mentally prepare for certain things, play focused at all times, especially with your service, because if you lose you're in serious trouble throughout the set," analyzed the player.
"In two years we will have a new calendar, three weeks before Wimbledon, and I think that will be fantastic. Players that reach the final days of Roland Garros will have more options to properly prepare a major tournament like this," said Nadal.
The 'nightmare' with roller began in Wimbledon
The Spaniard recalled how last season played "infiltrated" from the first round of Wimbledon, until the young Czech Lukas Rosol finished him in the second round, a turning point that marked the beginning of the "year of transition" Nadal, who reappeared not on a track to more than seven months later.
"I suffered too. Can suffer if you are in the final rounds, then yes you can infiltrate, but playing infiltrated from the beginning is not a good decision," he recalled.
Nadal is presented this year at the All England Club, where he has won twice (2008 and 2010), as the fifth-seeded.
"It is a discussion that is longer, but, the way you are doing the ranking, it's completely fair that I'm the fifth. (David) Ferrer has earned the privilege of being number four," said Nadal.
Source : http://deportes.terra.es/tenis/nadal-la-hierba-es-la-superficie-mas-complicada-para-mi-rodilla,ed986d53bbb6f310VgnCLD2000000dc6eb0aRCRD.html
The Spanish Rafael Nadal, seeded fifth Wimbledon starting on Monday warned that the grass is one of the worst surfaces to his left knee, which has kept more than seven months out of the loop.
Nadal said that in the last Roland Garros "things were so unbeatable". "During the tournament go through different phases, from less to more. When you're able to finish things better as you start is that you are mentally prepared to face challenges," he said.
Adaptation to the surface in London
Almost without transition, after resting a few days in Mallorca, Nadal arrived in London on Tuesday to try to complete the adjustment from clay to grass in less than a week.
"I never had big problems with that.'ve Got to play different mentally prepare for certain things, play focused at all times, especially with your service, because if you lose you're in serious trouble throughout the set," analyzed the player.
"In two years we will have a new calendar, three weeks before Wimbledon, and I think that will be fantastic. Players that reach the final days of Roland Garros will have more options to properly prepare a major tournament like this," said Nadal.
The 'nightmare' with roller began in Wimbledon
The Spaniard recalled how last season played "infiltrated" from the first round of Wimbledon, until the young Czech Lukas Rosol finished him in the second round, a turning point that marked the beginning of the "year of transition" Nadal, who reappeared not on a track to more than seven months later.
"I suffered too. Can suffer if you are in the final rounds, then yes you can infiltrate, but playing infiltrated from the beginning is not a good decision," he recalled.
Nadal is presented this year at the All England Club, where he has won twice (2008 and 2010), as the fifth-seeded.
"It is a discussion that is longer, but, the way you are doing the ranking, it's completely fair that I'm the fifth. (David) Ferrer has earned the privilege of being number four," said Nadal.
The herb "is perhaps the most difficult surface for my knee. Positions to be taken on the track are very low, and there is much flex where else feel the knee," Nadal said in the press conference after the London tournament , who hopes to win for the third time on Monday.
The Spaniard is presented at the All England Club after winning in Paris two weeks ago with his eighth Roland Garros and faces a complicated picture that could lead to face Roger Federer in the quarterfinals and Andy Murray in the semifinals, before a hypothetical final in what could wait Novak Djokovic or David Ferrer Spanish also.
"Not to mention the box because I do not like to talk about rounds that have not happened yet (...) Hopefully I can play well the first day, try to go a few rounds and, if so, I'll have options," said Spanish .
"Muscularly there is no problem, I played a lot of tennis in recent months and I'm ready. Another thing is the knee, is a challenge for me to play on grass, really. Tournaments in land and fast track that I played so far I've had a good result in terms of physical sensations, "said fifth ATP player.
Nadal said that in the last Roland Garros "things were so unbeatable". "During the tournament go through different phases, from less to more. When you're able to finish things better as you start is that you are mentally prepared to face challenges," he said.
Adaptation to the surface in London
Almost without transition, after resting a few days in Mallorca, Nadal arrived in London on Tuesday to try to complete the adjustment from clay to grass in less than a week.
"I never had big problems with that.'ve Got to play different mentally prepare for certain things, play focused at all times, especially with your service, because if you lose you're in serious trouble throughout the set," analyzed the player.
"In two years we will have a new calendar, three weeks before Wimbledon, and I think that will be fantastic. Players that reach the final days of Roland Garros will have more options to properly prepare a major tournament like this," said Nadal.
The 'nightmare' with roller began in Wimbledon
The Spaniard recalled how last season played "infiltrated" from the first round of Wimbledon, until the young Czech Lukas Rosol finished him in the second round, a turning point that marked the beginning of the "year of transition" Nadal, who reappeared not on a track to more than seven months later.
"I suffered too. Can suffer if you are in the final rounds, then yes you can infiltrate, but playing infiltrated from the beginning is not a good decision," he recalled.
Nadal is presented this year at the All England Club, where he has won twice (2008 and 2010), as the fifth-seeded.
"It is a discussion that is longer, but, the way you are doing the ranking, it's completely fair that I'm the fifth. (David) Ferrer has earned the privilege of being number four," said Nadal.
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6/22/2013
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