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Practice in Mallorca
February 4, 2019
Rafa returned to training after a week off.
Carlos Moya is on vacation, Uncle Toni fed balls.
He better slay
Practice in Mallorca
February 4, 2019
Rafa returned to training after a week off.
Carlos Moya is on vacation, Uncle Toni fed balls.
Does he really intend to play acapulco, indian wells and miami before his marathon run in clay to get to roland garros 2019?
7 tournaments with almost 33 years before trying to win his twelfth cup of musketeers.
What do fans of Spanish think about his schedule?.
Does he really intend to play acapulco, indian wells and miami before his marathon run in clay to get to roland garros 2019?
7 tournaments with almost 33 years before trying to win his twelfth cup of musketeers.
What do fans of Spanish think about his schedule?.
So he probably won’t be playing Miami?I think that Rafa knows what is best for him.
Rafa said about his schedule at his press conference on Jan.27, 2019:
RAFAEL NADAL: "I need matches, but I can't go crazy to play matches. I have my age. I have my calendar. I have my priorities. My priority now is come back home, have some rest. ...
Then my next step is Acapulco. That's my goal. Is a tournament that I like to play. I had some success there. I am excited to come back to Acapulco. I have Acapulco, I have Indian Wells, and that's my calendar today. The only thing I am sure I am not going to play something before these two events. That's my calendar today. Then we see. Depend how things go, I keep going or I take a rest to play on clay."
He confirmed his participation in the Acapulco tournament more than 3 months ago:
So he probably won’t be playing Miami?
So he probably won’t be playing Miami?
Looks like his normal schedule but not including Queens and Tokyo.Rafa's provisional schedule, published in December:
https://www.marca.com/tenis/2018/12/22/5c1e158ce5fdea187e8b462b.html
Looks like his normal schedule but not including Queens and Tokyo.
Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre in Mexico
The new Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre in Mexico has opened its doors.
The Centre is located in the Costa Mujeres area on the Mexican Caribbean Coast (north of resort city of Cancun), in the facilities of the two resorts TRS Coral Hotel and Grand Palladium Costa Mujeres Resort & Spa. The resorts belong to Rafa's business partners.
Rafa visited the construction site of the new tennis centre in February 2018:
http://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-...)/Nadal-Launches-Tennis-Centre-in-Mexico.aspx
He better not forget his wedding date.He won't play in Beijing or Tokyo because he promised to play at the 2019 Laver Cup in Geneva (In Spanish: Ginebra).
Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre in Mexico
The new Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre in Mexico has opened its doors.
The Centre is located in the Costa Mujeres area on the Mexican Caribbean Coast (north of resort city of Cancun), in the facilities of the two resorts TRS Coral Hotel and Grand Palladium Costa Mujeres Resort & Spa. The resorts belong to Rafa's business partners.
Rafa visited the construction site of the new tennis centre in February 2018:
http://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-...)/Nadal-Launches-Tennis-Centre-in-Mexico.aspx
Rafa is going to Mexico next week:
Costa Mujeres is located around 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the Island of Cozumel, where Rafa partially owns two hotels.
Rafa & Sponsor - Banco Sabadell
February 7, 2019
The Banco Sabadell event in Vigo
Rafa will attend the Banco Sabadell event in Vigo, a city in the northwest of Spain, on Thursday evening. The event is titled "Dialogues on the future with Rafa Nadal." This is an onstage interview with Rafa in front of a live audience consisting of the guests invited by the bank.
Fans will be able to watch the interview (in Spanish) live via the link in the tweets:
Rafa became the global brand ambassador for Banco Sabadell in April 2014. Since then, the bank has organized multiple events Rafa has participated in, among them several onstage interviews in front of a live audience in different citys in Spain.
Last September, Rafa participated virtually in the debate titled "Futuros" (In English: "Futures") held in front of a live studio audience:
Screenshot
In Malaga, Sept.2017
In Alicante, Jan.2018:
Wikipedia: "Banco Sabadell is the fifth-largest Spanish banking group. Banco Sabadell has 53 international branches and representative offices in Algiers, Peking, Caracas, Dubai, Istanbul, México DF, New York, New Delhi, Santo Domingo, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore and Warsaw. Banco Sabadell has subsidiaries and associated Banks in Andorra, United States, Portugal, United Kingdom; and branches in London, Miami, Paris, Hendaye and Casablanca."
http://prensa.bancsabadell.com/en/N...the-banco-sabadell-brand-throughout-the-world
Vigo, a city in the northwest of Spain:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo
Rafa sits for the onstage interview with a sports reporter for the Faro de Vigo, a daily newspaper for the town of Vigo:
For which we are very grateful.wow !, you should be part of the team of rafa.
The dedication in which you invest your time is incredible.
Rafa & Sponsor - Banco Sabadell
February 7, 2019
The Banco Sabadell event in Vigo
Rafa will attend the Banco Sabadell event in Vigo, a city in the northwest of Spain, on Thursday evening. The event is titled "Dialogues on the future with Rafa Nadal." This is an onstage interview with Rafa in front of a live audience consisting of the guests invited by the bank.
Fans will be able to watch the interview (in Spanish) live via the link in the tweets:
Rafa became the global brand ambassador for Banco Sabadell in April 2014. Since then, the bank has organized multiple events Rafa has participated in, among them several onstage interviews in front of a live audience in different citys in Spain.
Last September, Rafa participated virtually in the debate titled "Futuros" (In English: "Futures") held in front of a live studio audience:
Screenshot
In Malaga, Sept.2017
In Alicante, Jan.2018:
Wikipedia: "Banco Sabadell is the fifth-largest Spanish banking group. Banco Sabadell has 53 international branches and representative offices in Algiers, Peking, Caracas, Dubai, Istanbul, México DF, New York, New Delhi, Santo Domingo, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore and Warsaw. Banco Sabadell has subsidiaries and associated Banks in Andorra, United States, Portugal, United Kingdom; and branches in London, Miami, Paris, Hendaye and Casablanca."
http://prensa.bancsabadell.com/en/N...the-banco-sabadell-brand-throughout-the-world
Vigo, a city in the northwest of Spain:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo
Rafa arrives at the onstage interview:
Rafa sits for the onstage interview with a sports reporter for the Faro de Vigo, a daily newspaper for the town of Vigo:
Screenshots
I hope, a summary of the interview (or articles about it) will be available soon.
So we've got at least up to 2020 to look forward to. Yay!He is going to play in the Davis Cup final that will take place in Madrid at the end of November, and wants to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
That forehand....When someone watches Nadal for the first time.
Your aspirations are well and truly achieved. What more could you wish for?
Hair transplant success!
Relaxing Time
Rafa is golfing this weekend. He is participating in a golf tournament being held at the Vall D'Or Golf Course in Mallorca:
I think what Rafa doesn't seem to accept is that as far as being a human being, everyone is normal, but, some are special and extraordinary and he is one of them. Even Queen Elizabeth II is a normal person; everyone knows that she is not superhuman she does all the things that nature calls for like the rest of us yet she is not a normal person because of the adulation and special position she enjoys and the lifestyle that she leads. Film stars and other performers are all normal human beings but they are not normal because of the way they live and the privileges they enjoy. How many people in Spain or anywhere else in the world enjoy Rafa's charmed life and adulation because he is extraordinarily good at what he does? How many sports men and women are box office stars in their chosen sport who can command a $1m fee just to appear at an event? You can't sit at an event where 1400k specially invited people have come for an audience with you and say you are a normal person.Rafa is such a nice guy...just a nice nice person.
Translated by nou.amic for VamosBrigade.
http://www.atlantico.net/articulo/depor ... 91283.html
1400 turn out for Rafa Nadal at the Mar de Vigo Auditorium
Jorge Castro. VIGO 08 Feb 2019
Almost 1400 people turned out at the Mar de Vigo Auditorium yesterday (Thurs 7 Feb) to see Rafa Nadal interviewed in public by Juan Carlos Álvarez under the patronage of the Banco Sabadell. The interview touched on aspects of the tennis player's career, his relationship with Vigo (**see below) and several points of current everyday interest. The event began ten minutes late and, after the introductory remarks, the tennis player made his entry from the highest point at the back of the auditorium to thunderous applause. As he descended towards the stage, he saluted both the public and the authorities and afterwards answered the questions he was asked clearly and concisely.
As refers to his career, he admitted losing to a superior Djokovic in this year's Australian Open final. "I think I've been a good loser throughout my career. I came home satisfied with the result but annoyed by the loss in the final. I'm now back practising and you do that by valuing the positive things you have done. I value the luck I have to dedicate myself to what was one of my hobbies. It has become my profession and I'm very good at it," stated the tennis player, but he also qualified that: "I'm not a fan of great compliments. I play tennis, I haven't invented anything. I'm an athlete, I can't be a hypocrite, I'm an outstanding athlete, but nothing else. In my daily life, off a tennis court, I'm an ordinary person, like any of my friends in Manacor. That's how I feel and that's how I try to live my life."
Nadal explained that his next sporting challenges are to play well in Acapulco and Indian Wells. Asked about the new Davis Cup, he said: "I really liked the former format, but one cannot deny that it was not adapted to the new times. With that formula, it was proved that the best players didn't normally regularly participate." For this reason, he ventured that "in a few years we'll see if there is an improvement with the changes. My intention is to take part in it (this autumn in Madrid). There are still a lot of months to go. Six, seven or eight. It's difficult for me to make a prediction because many things can happen along the way and we'll see when the time comes. He has the same plans for the Olympic Games in Tokyo: "I hope to enjoy them as much as I did Beijing and Rio. Due to injury, I wasn't able to do that in London," he said.
On the subject of the future, Nadal admitted that men's tennis is coming to the end of a cycle because he, Federer and Djokovic, who dominate the tour, are now veterans. "It's a reality that this epoch is over. The years are going by, we've had exceptional careers together and it's clear we're in the final stretch. In my own case, I'm going to do everything in my power to continue to be competitive and enjoy top level sport for as long as possible," he declared.
About his rivals, especially Federer and Djokovic, he explained that "it's normal to feel respect for your rivals for, after all, we've experienced moments together that were special for me and for them. You can have no other relationship but respect and appreciation."
The Manacor tennis player acknowledged that doubts have risen throughout his career, especially when he had injuries, but he clarified that they are necessary "because they mean that one is alive and it implies that you do not believe yourself to be superior. Also, so long as they're not excessive, they always make you try to improve. When you return after injury, it's logical for you have doubts. But I also had them when I was 16 years old, and I have them now.. and when I've won several tournaments in a row."
That Roland Garros record
Of all the tournaments Rafa Nadal has conquered, the most outstanding is his idyll with Roland Garros, which he has won eleven times, a total no one had ever achieved before and which will be difficult to equal. However, the Balearic player points out that "it's not something normal as nobody has ever done it before. Even so, if I, who I consider a normal person, can do it, someone else could come along and do it. Why not? If I did it, somebody else can do it," he said, but he also admitted that many factors have to come into play for it to occur."
Asked about his preferences in sport, the tennis player highlighted Pau Gasol, "a pioneer", but he made it clear that "we look to people that win a lot for reference but I think we should look to people we have close to us. I think the great examples are not people that triumph a lot, but those that work to help others." A way of thinking he tries to apply in his daily life.
**farodevigo.es wrote: Remembering his first visit to Vigo
https://www.farodevigo.es/deportes/2019 ... 47692.html
The first topic of conversation was the tournament Rafa Nadal played in Vigo in 2002, when he was just 16, at the Vigo Country Club. "I have great memories of it. It was one of the first tournaments I competed in at a semi-professional level. I remember the hotel was on the seafront and I felt very much at ease all week. We walked to the tournament and we went out for good seafood suppers many times and to get sweets, too. I buy fewer now, I have to look after myself more," he joked.
He said that "in the basic things of life" he is still practically the same as this boy who came to Vigo to compete in that tournament at the Country Club. "The pillars of my life are still the same. The basic change is in the experience and knowledge time in the profession gives you."
Hair transplant success!
Relaxing Time
Rafa is golfing this weekend. He is participating in a golf tournament being held at the Vall D'Or Golf Course in Mallorca:
February 10, 2019
The second day of the Balearic Islands Golf Championship (for 30+ years old):
You can take the man out of tennis but you can't take tennis out of the man.A few pictures taken on Sunday:
Photos via Federacion Balear de Golf
Golf specialists say that Rafa's golf swing is very influenced by tennis. He plays golf right handed, but his swing is similar to his two-handed backhand tennis swing.
MichaelNadal, are those shorts tight enough?Practice in Mallorca
February 15, 2019
Today is Rafa's last day of practice before heading to Mexico:
On Monday, February 18, he'll attend the official inauguration of the Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre located at a resort complex on Mexico's Caribbean coast.