October 2011
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RafaLint: October 28th
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Articles:
We Get It Already, Rafael Nadal Is Really Good At Sports by Burnsy. Really bad photoshopping, but I have to admit that the dog show one made me snort.
Kia Motors launches new global brand campaign - press release about the...
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Getting ready for Paris
IB3 video of Rafa’s Paris prep:
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Tiebreak videos
Carlos Costa was on the Spanish TV show Tiebreak recently. Thanks to Inés, we have some videos.
Behind the scenes of the Armani shoot:
Costa’s office at IMG:
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RafaLint: October 26th
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You know that warning I often give you? That “make sure you are sitting” one? And perhaps the “you might not want to click on this if you are at work” one? Yeah. They apply here. Rafa’s on the cover of an insert to...
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New KIA commercial: What Rafa likes
New commercial for KIA:
Rafa looking very slick.
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RafaLint: October 25th
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Articles:
John Carlin: “Nadal es un animal competitivo” by Lluís Regàs (mangle).
John Carlin: “Nadal es de una madera especial” by Carlos R. Galindo (mangle). WARNING: loud auto-loading video on the page.
Quite a few...
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RafaLint: October 24th
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Articles:
Rafa is confirmed for Abu Dhabi next year: Djokovic to make Abu Dhabi debut by M. Satya Narayan (gulfnews.com); Novak Djokovic to lead star cast for Mubadala World Tennis Championship by The National.
Rafa gets a mention on...
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Exhibition for Andrés Gimeno
The rtve has the whole event up here. If that doesn’t work for you or you just want to see the Rafa tiebreaks, Inés has uploaded them.
Tiebreak One:
Tiebreak Two:
Tiebreak Three:
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RafaLint: October 22nd
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Articles:
Nadal, tan agresivo como con la raqueta by Mario Díaz (elmundo.es) - seems to be about the mechanics of Rafa’s golf swing. Article includes a video. (Headache inducing mangle)
Nadal no...
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RafaLint: October 19th
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Articles:
Article in the Castelló Masters Facebook. From the mangle (you’ll have to self-mangle, Google refuses to provide a link-able mangle), it sounds like Rafa’s team won.
Rafa Nadal campeón también de golf al...
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Photos from the Pro-Am del Castelló Masters 2011
Who knew golf could be so dapper?
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Photos by Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/Getty Images and Stuart Franklin/Getty Images
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Pro-am del Castelló Masters 2011
Happy Wednesday! Some nice videos and pictures of Rafa golfing greeted me this morning thanks to Inés.
First, a Nice photo album on abc.es. And here’s one on flickr.
Greeting people and posing for photos:
First tee:
And keep checking out their YouTube channel in case they add more.
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RafaLint: October 18th
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Articles:
Rafa’s on the cover of Maxwell magazine. Here’s the article that goes with it (mangle). And they helpfully posted the cover image on their Facebook page.
Videos:
Adorable tot Rafa plays with adorable tot Marc! (oh, and...
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RafaLint: October 17th
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The article by John Carlin that appeared online a few days ago is also in EL PAÍS Semanal magazine with two new photos: one impossibly adorable and one beefcake. Thanks to Inés, we have the article in pdf format.
Photos:
A few Rafa pics in this...
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RafaLint: October 16th
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Articles:
Viaje al cerebro de la máquina by John Carlin (mangle).
Hey Rafa, where’s your swagger? by Pete Bodo (epsn.com)
Rafael Nadal’s road to No. 1 in 2012: Reprise edition by Douglas Perry (The Oregonian)
El deportista...
Rafa in Sleep-mode.
vamosmaymo:
Rest up buddy. You deserve it!
Photo: getty, Rafa’s fb
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Armani video screen grabs
Not the best quality and far to many of them, but I’m too tired to sort through them some more, so here you go.
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RafaLint: October 13th
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Articles:
Presser transcript
Mayer Tops Nadal In Third Round; Finals Contender Berdych Falls via ATP
Florian Mayer upsets Rafael Nadal via espn.com
Raquet Reaction: Nadal vs. Mayer by Ed McGrogan. WARNING: Annoying auto-load...
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Shanghai: 3rd round photos
Photos from the match against Mayer.
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Photos by MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images, GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/Getty Images, and REUTERS/Aly Song
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Shanghai: 3rd round videos
Hot Shot:
Posted by ATPWorldTour.
First set highlights:
Second set:
Posted by PartidoaPartido.
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Shanghai: 3rd round presser video
Or watch it on TennisTV.
Also, if you depend on Rafa pressers to cheer you up after a loss, you might want to skip this one.
Update: The transcript is up here.
Q. Florian is a very unorthodox player. Did you find that part of his game tough tonight? He’s not like most players.
RAFAEL NADAL: He play very well. That’s true. He play really well. I didn’t. I felt that I was not...
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Rafa for Armani
Armani’s posted the full-length Rafa video…it’s like the one “leaked” earlier and then removed.
More about the video.
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Shanghai surprise
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In this third round match, Rafa took on Florian Mayer (#23) of Germany. Mayer plays an all court game - mixing up pace and rushing the net. Rafa appeared to be having trouble reading Mayer’s serve and that let him get into the net often...
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RafaLint: October 12th
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Articles:
Nadal Settles A Score; Joins Murray In Third Round via the ATP
Racquet Reaction: Nadal vs. Garcia-Lopez by Pete Bodo (WARNING! Video on the page will autoload.)
Tournament balls need to be standardized, says Nadal by Peter...
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Champions Drink Responsibly Shanghai Event B-Roll
Footage from the event for Bacardi. Wait, so Rafa had his hands going the correct way and then changed them?
Video from SportfolioPR.
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Shanghai: 2nd round videos
Set one highlights:
You can see more of PartidoaPartido’s match videos on his site.
Last game and post-match interview in Spanish:
Posted by vamosrafelnadal.
Other videos:
Match highlights via the ATP
Hot Shot of the day
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Shanghai: 2nd round photos
Photos from the match against Garcia-Lopez.
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Photos by AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, REUTERS/Aly Song, MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images, AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, and GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/Getty Images
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Shanghai: 2nd round presser
The presser video is up on YouTube:
And the transcript is up on the tournament site:
Q. It was a good revenge from last year in Bangkok, I suppose?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, was tough lose last year in Bangkok. Less painful because I came after winning the US Open, but probably was the more unbelievable lose in my career against him last year because I never had as many chances as I had in that...
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Shanghai: Through to the 3rd round
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In a match that was either, for the most part, painful to watch or I was too tired to get into, Rafa played Guillermo Garcia-Lopez to start his run in Shanghai. Garcia-Lopez had 5 double faults in this first 2 service games and...
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RafaLint: October 11th
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First up, Rafa’s post doubles-loss presser is up on the tournament site.
Articles:
Murray, Nadal say players’ meeting not imminent (AP via si.com)
Brief interview with Rafa in abcMallorca
Photos:
The ATP has...
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Tokyo: Junko's final day
After the semi-finals on Saturday the tournament announced that the singles final match will be on at 12 noon on Sunday, followed by the doubles final. The doubles match was originally scheduled before the singles, but because Andy made it to both, according to ATP rules singles match had to be played the first. So I arrived around 11:30 in good time for the singles final, only to discover Rafa...
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Shanghai: Champions Drink Responsibly
Photos from an event for the Bacardi Champions Drink Responsibly in Shanghai.
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Photos by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images for Bacardi
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Is it Halle for Rafa in 2012?
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According to this article, Rafa has been lured away from Queens thanks to the offer of some serious moolah from Halle.
Gerry Weber’s cash has lured Rafael Nadal away from his traditional Wimbledon warm-up at Queen’s Club next...
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Shanghia: Pre-tournament presser photos and...
Rafa had his per-tournament presser today. There’s an article about it on the ATP site (Nadal Embracing Challenge To Improve) with a lot of interesting quotes. Here are some photos:
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Shanghai: Preview interview video
Rafa’s preview interview is up on the ATPWorldTour’s YouTube channel:
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Shanghai: Team Berry Berry Cute go down
Rafa and Marc! played Kas and Peya in their first round doubles match today. After taking the first set 6-4 (thanks to a break late in the set), they went down, way down in the second set. In danger of being bageled, they fought back to a respectable 4-6. They went went up 6-2 in the super tiebreak set only to see their lead slip away. Their poor serving seemed to cost them dearly as they are out...
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RafaLint: October 10th
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A Richard Mille event, a Nike event, and some practice. Yep, Rafa’s a busy boy.
Sponsor stuff:
Rafa attended a Richard Mille promotional event in Shanghai. Here are some photos.
I have no idea what’s going on here, but this appears...
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RafaLint: October 9th
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Articles:
Rafa likes noodles
Murray stuns Nadal then wins doubles in Tokyo via yahoo sports
In-form Murray Triumphs Over Nadal via the ATP
Andy Murray defeats Rafael Nadal in Japan Open final via BBC
Shanghai Masters: Draw Preview and...
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Tokyo: Final photos
Photos from yesterday’s match against Murray.
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Photos by REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao, Koji Watanabe/Getty Images, AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, Lintao Zhang/Getty Images, and KATSUMI KASAHARA/AFP/Getty Images
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Tokyo: Final videos
Highlights:
Posted by ATPWorldTour.
Posted by PartidoaPartido.
Trophy ceremony of awkwardness:
Posted by ksyuzi.
Post-match interview:
Posted by ATPWorldTour.
Other videos:
tve and iB3 reports with short Spanish interivew
Beautiful passing shot
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Tokyo: Losing from ahead
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It was down to the top 2 seeds at the Japan Open today: Rafa and Andy. Would Rafa defend his first non-clay title? Or would Andy beat Rafa for the first time this year? I always love watching matches between these two – they are...
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Tokyo: Semifinal videos
First set highlights:
Second set highlights:
More videos by PartidoaPartido on his site.
Hot shot:
Post-match interview in English:
Both posted by ATPWorldTour.
And here’s the post-match interview in Spanish.
Original Article
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Tokyo: Semifinal photos
Photos from the semifinal against Fish.
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Photos by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images, REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao, Koji Watanabe/Getty Images, and AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye
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Junko in Tokyo, day 4
Today our seats were even further away from the court than yesterday so it was impossible to get any decent photos of Rafa. The match was thrilling especially in the first set (Giraldo’s flat forehand returns were incredible!) and we all saw how Rafa raised his level and intensity for the 2nd set. We all enjoyed seeing his big VAMOS! I heard that Rafa had a practice in the Centre court in...
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Shanghai: The draw
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While we are still knee-deep in Tokyo, the Shanghai draw was done today. Here it is. Seeds in Rafa’s half are Mayer, Tipsaravic, Berdych, Ferrer, Verdasco, Roddick and Almagro. (Wild Card Nalbadnian is in his quarter.) Seeds in...
