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MichaelNadal
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^^Awesome 
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RAFA2005RG
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I saw that video yesterday, what shoes is he wearing in it? His new USO ones?
babbette
Legend
Lol funny. Justin Timberlake gives Rafa some love on Regis and Kelly. Regis challenged him to a ping pong game. JT gets some luck with the net @ from 13:05 and he said he learned that from Nadal. :lol:
http://perezhilton.com/2011-07-20-justin-timberlake-regis-philbin-interview
But why can't Americans say Nad "al"? Is it really so hard?
http://perezhilton.com/2011-07-20-justin-timberlake-regis-philbin-interview
But why can't Americans say Nad "al"? Is it really so hard?
Mustard
Bionic Poster
But why can't Americans say Nad "al"? Is it really so hard?
Mary Carillo does.
RAFA2005RG
Banned
Does anyone know if Nadal will wear the black and lime 2010 USO outfit again or will he go with something new? I hope he sticks with last year's. Just pretend it's 2010 and he will win.
babbette
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RAFA2005RG
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shirt will also be in white. Black, white and grey shorts
Wow that's boring. I saw the picture of him using the exercise bike and he wore the black and lime, but that was obviously just for home.
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TheMagicianOfPrecision
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So THAT is what he will wear when Novak hands him breadsticks just like in the Wimby final?! Cool! Important to look good even when you are losing baaahaaadly! :twisted:
RAFA2005RG
Banned
Breadsticks are no big deal, Nadal breadsticked Djokovic in the Wimbledon final too. Means nothing. And Nadal doesn't look good, Nike did a terrible job with this years US Open outfit. Last year's USO is about the only outfit they did well apart from the 2009 AO.
Clarky21
Banned
Novak himself was also on the receiving end of a breadstick as you might recall. And how about this score to refresh your memory: 6-1 -6-3 -6-0. I guess Federer also looked cool losing that badly as well,huh?
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
I actually like it, especially the blue and yellow one. Vamos.
RAFA2005RG
Banned
I know there is a lot of money in it but if I was a high-ranking pro, I would definitely not sign with a sports clothing brand.
babbette
Legend
I posted the pic of djokovic with Tipsa holding the gun a few pages back. I didn't think it would catch on to the press but it did to some. Maybe it wouldn't have if Tipsa hadn't mentioned Rafa :lol:
Novak Djokovic jokes around with a gun pointed at him
By Chris Chase
A picture of Novak Djokovic standing with his hands up as friend and fellow tennis player Janko Tipsarevic points a gun at him was posted, then quickly taken down, from Tipsarevic's Facebook page on Thursday. It was accompanied by the caption: "How much $$$ would Rafa gief...
As one Busted Racquet reader wrote, this looks like Djokovic's first bad idea of the season.
There are funny and creative ways to joke around on social media sites while toeing the line of good taste. This picture does none of those things. If the gun was fake*, it's a tasteless joke that makes the crucial mistake of being unfunny. If the gun was real, it's a breathtakingly bad decision on every level.
* I'm assuming, and hoping, it's fake.
The caption is more bothersome. The world No. 1 was part of a joke in which his friend (and fellow player) kids about killing him for a bounty from the No. 2 player in the world. There's a culture gap between Serbia and the United States, sure, but that can't be kosher in any country.
In other sports, that behavior would merit a suspension and a collective freakout from the sports media. (Imagine if Dwyane Wade and LeBron James were in the photo and Kobe Bryant was mentioned in the caption. I'm pretty sure Skip Bayless would spontaneously combust.) In tennis, it may not merit much attention.
That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Too many minor incidents in sports get blown out of proportion and snowball out of control thanks to an endless news cycle that needs feeding. Djokovic and Tipsarevic screwed up and deserve to be criticized for their bad joke gone awry. Leave it at that.
RAFA2005RG
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TheTruth
G.O.A.T.
I knew it would be more fun being number 2
That's funny!
beast of mallorca
G.O.A.T.
CMM,
I know you're upto date with Rafa's schedule, is he not playing a 500 ATP event at least, here in the States ?
I know you're upto date with Rafa's schedule, is he not playing a 500 ATP event at least, here in the States ?
RAFA2005RG
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I heard someone in his team say he will go on Letterman or Leno. Hopefully Letterman. Leno is known as a bit of a racist.
beast of mallorca
G.O.A.T.
Letterman is too rancid of an interviewer for my taste. Leno is better in my opinion. I'm not sure how you got the conclusion that he's a racist. Eitherway, Rafa is not going to go to these shows, unless he wins the US Open. And even if he did, I pretty much doubt he'll do it.
RAFA2005RG
Banned
Well, Leno likes to imitate foreigners, to their faces. I know comedians do impressions, but he does it about the person he's interviewing, including Arnold Schwarzenegger.
beast of mallorca
G.O.A.T.
beast of mallorca
G.O.A.T.
Crisstti
Legend
Nadal starts training for Toronto Masters (Montreal) 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWjJaKCa5k&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWjJaKCa5k&feature=channel_video_title
Crisstti
Legend
Not exactly news , but I watched an interview with him on YouTube, from when he was 15, and he says he prefers to play in grass and hardcourts rather than clay. Interesting, isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2DQLtCfCo&NR=1
, but I watched an interview with him on YouTube, from when he was 15, and he says he prefers to play in grass and hardcourts rather than clay. Interesting, isn't it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2DQLtCfCo&NR=1
Clarky21
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Not exactly news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2DQLtCfCo&NR=1
Interesting since he is a natural born clay courter. Always has been and always will be.
RAFA2005RG
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But his best grand slam performance was definitely 2010 US Open.
Clarky21
Banned
No way. I think RG 2008,maybe even Wimbledon that year as well was his best. Maybe the USO last year was his best HC performance,but not overall.
Clarky21
Banned
Agreed. He was positively beastly there. Nobody was beating him there that year. He was so good it was scary.
Crisstti
Legend
Stuck in around 2006?
It is indeed interesting 'cause he's gotten most of his best results on clay.
Clarky21
Banned
Nope not at all. Clay is his best surface and where nearly every single title he has ever won has come from. I also know that he has defended clay titles multiple times but has never,not even once defended one off of clay. To me, Nadal has to practically be goating to win anything on other surfaces while he can usually sleepwalk his way to a win on clay(at least until Djokovic). Do you really think most people would say he is an all surface player,or a clay courter? Would you call Federer a clay courter,even though most of his titles have come on hard courts? No,you wouldn't,so why is it so bad to call Nadal what he is? A dirt baller.
Crisstti
Legend
What is his not defending a non clay title is supossed to prove?. Fact is: he's won them. Including both HC Grand Slams. Not much else to say about it really.
BTW:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#goalposts
Yes, I think most people would call him an all surface player. His having a better surface doesn't mean he isn't.
An no, I don't think anyone would call Federer a clay courter, but then, I am NOT claiming anyone would call Nadal a hard courter (if that's how it's said).
Clarky21
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What defending a non-clay title proves is that Nadal is a threat all the time on other surfaces instead of being a straight up dirtballer who can sometimes eek out a win on something besides clay. He has to be playing insane tennis to win on hc/grass,otherwise he will lose each and every time. The fact that he cannot seem to manage to defend not even one title that ain't on dirt also shows that he does not belong in the talks about being a potential goat candidate. I mean,even Federer has managed to defend a clay title once in his career. Why can't Nadal manage to do the same off the dirt?
Crisstti
Legend
Federer defending one clay title and Rafa not (though we could argue about Wimbledon) is just not a big enough difference to be relevant. Federer has just done it once in clay, after all.
Also, tehre are many other factors that come into play to determine how good a player is in a given surface. There's the W/L ratio, the tourments he's won. Defending a title seems very much less important than those others.
There's also the issue of injuries with Nadal, esp. in 2009.
Crisstti
Legend
Another thing. You seem to be saying Nadal playing well on non clay surfaces is some kind of anomaly or exception. And yet he has reached the final of Wimbledon since 2006, everytime he's played the tournment. Add to taht he's winning both AO and USO, and several other (don't know how many TBH) HC titles.
vernonbc
Legend
For the last half dozen years, Rafa has been one of the best players in the world on both hard and grass (clay is a given). What is this nonsense about he has to be 'goating' to win on those surfaces?
Of the top five ranked players, besides Federer, Rafa's record on hard is as good as anyone's. His winning % is .766; Dokovic's is .789; Murray's is .764; Soderling's is .649. (The rest of the Top 10 is even worse - Ferrer .593; Monfils .625; Berdych .545; Fish .600; Amalgro .448; Simon .608 )
On grass, he has the second best winning record after Federer with a % of .828. Murray is just over the 800 threshold at .803 and no one else is even close. Bottom line, Rafa deserves his #1/2 ranking and he's earned it on every surface.
Of the top five ranked players, besides Federer, Rafa's record on hard is as good as anyone's. His winning % is .766; Dokovic's is .789; Murray's is .764; Soderling's is .649. (The rest of the Top 10 is even worse - Ferrer .593; Monfils .625; Berdych .545; Fish .600; Amalgro .448; Simon .608 )
On grass, he has the second best winning record after Federer with a % of .828. Murray is just over the 800 threshold at .803 and no one else is even close. Bottom line, Rafa deserves his #1/2 ranking and he's earned it on every surface.
Sid_Vicious
G.O.A.T.
Clarky is a Nadal hater. I am just waiting for the US Open to come around so I can see make posts about how Ryan Harrison and Andy Roddick have a better chance of winning than Nadal.
Clarky21
Banned
Lol. I am not a "Nadal hater". And Harrison and Roddick won't come anywhere near winning the USO. I'm a realist,not delusional.
RAFA2005RG
Banned
That's easy to say about Nadal at age 25. He has only just entered his hardcourt prime. Judge him at age 30. It's kind of cheating if you only judge a player at age 25. His best hardcourt performance ever was 2010 US Open yet you are criticizing him for not defending that US Open despite the 2011 US Open not even being played? :lol: You sure are funny :lol: if nothing else.
RAFA2005RG
Banned
Yep, because Nadal will be lucky to do better than QF at this year's US Open....right? :lol:
Mustard
Bionic Poster
Here are Nadal's 46 career titles thus far, red being clay-court titles, green being grass-court titles and blue being hardcourt titles.
1. 2004 Sopot
2. 2005 Costa Do Sauipe
3. 2005 Acapulco
4. 2005 Monte Carlo Masters
5. 2005 Barcelona
6. 2005 Rome Masters
7. 2005 French Open
8. 2005 Bastad
9. 2005 Stuttgart
10. 2005 Montreal Masters
11. 2005 Beijing
12. 2005 Madrid Masters
13. 2006 Dubai
14. 2006 Monte Carlo Masters
15. 2006 Barcelona
16. 2006 Rome Masters
17. 2006 French Open
18. 2007 Indian Wells Masters
19. 2007 Monte Carlo Masters
20. 2007 Barcelona
21. 2007 Rome Masters
22. 2007 French Open
23. 2007 Stuttgart
24. 2008 Monte Carlo Masters
25. 2008 Barcelona
26. 2008 Hamburg Masters
27. 2008 French Open
28. 2008 Queen's Club
29. 2008 Wimbledon
30. 2008 Toronto Masters
31. 2008 Beijing Olympics
32. 2009 Australian Open
33. 2009 Indian Wells Masters
34. 2009 Monte Carlo Masters
35. 2009 Barcelona
36. 2009 Rome Masters
37. 2010 Monte Carlo Masters
38. 2010 Rome Masters
39. 2010 Madrid Open
40. 2010 French Open
41. 2010 Wimbledon
42. 2010 US Open
43. 2010 Tokyo
44. 2011 Monte Carlo Masters
45. 2011 Barcelona
46. 2011 French Open
So that's:
32 clay-court titles
3 grass-court titles
11 hardcourt titles
1. 2004 Sopot
2. 2005 Costa Do Sauipe
3. 2005 Acapulco
4. 2005 Monte Carlo Masters
5. 2005 Barcelona
6. 2005 Rome Masters
7. 2005 French Open
8. 2005 Bastad
9. 2005 Stuttgart
10. 2005 Montreal Masters
11. 2005 Beijing
12. 2005 Madrid Masters
13. 2006 Dubai
14. 2006 Monte Carlo Masters
15. 2006 Barcelona
16. 2006 Rome Masters
17. 2006 French Open
18. 2007 Indian Wells Masters
19. 2007 Monte Carlo Masters
20. 2007 Barcelona
21. 2007 Rome Masters
22. 2007 French Open
23. 2007 Stuttgart
24. 2008 Monte Carlo Masters
25. 2008 Barcelona
26. 2008 Hamburg Masters
27. 2008 French Open
28. 2008 Queen's Club
29. 2008 Wimbledon
30. 2008 Toronto Masters
31. 2008 Beijing Olympics
32. 2009 Australian Open
33. 2009 Indian Wells Masters
34. 2009 Monte Carlo Masters
35. 2009 Barcelona
36. 2009 Rome Masters
37. 2010 Monte Carlo Masters
38. 2010 Rome Masters
39. 2010 Madrid Open
40. 2010 French Open
41. 2010 Wimbledon
42. 2010 US Open
43. 2010 Tokyo
44. 2011 Monte Carlo Masters
45. 2011 Barcelona
46. 2011 French Open
So that's:
32 clay-court titles
3 grass-court titles
11 hardcourt titles
Clarky21
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Sid_Vicious
G.O.A.T.
That is not being a realist, man. That is called being a pessimist.
Nadal made the the USO SF in 09 and that was his worst year since he entered his prime. He also had an abdominal tear that year. Also, Nadal has not lost before the QFs of a single event this year.
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