Toni Nadal: Rafa played with his foot asleep in Wimbledon .....

Zara said:
Never watched it, thankfully even when I liked Nadal back then.
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Really? You never watched that match? So you admit you are more of a troll than a tennis fan.
Who would have ever guessed?
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weakera said:
Maybe it appears to you like there are packs of Nadal fans around but it's likely just an optical illusion as so many Federer and Djokovic fans have vanished as if Thanos snapped them out of existence.
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I think it’s safe to say that Nadal fans have the tendencies to vanish as well from time to time.
 
weakera said:
Maybe it appears to you like there are packs of Nadal fans around but it's likely just an optical illusion as so many Federer and Djokovic fans have vanished as if Thanos snapped them out of existence.
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Most of the Federer fans who were around before AO are still here. Only absentee is @PilotPete . It's the djokofans like Nadal_Django, NAS who've disappeared. Probably some were exiled also.
 
weakera said:
Federer fans have been a dying breed for years, that's true. It's definitely the Djokovic fans whose absence is more... sudden.
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Yeah. Federer fans have either left or been underground since Wimbledon 2019. Djokofans disappeared which is not even remotely surprising.
 
Zara said:
I see the usual Federer fans here but some of Novak fans are missing or not posting as much. Or maybe just keeping a low profile.
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Yeah most Federer fans who chose to stick after Wimbledon '19 are still here. Djokofans obviously left. Many of the Nadalfans who disappeared last June showed up in January which makes for their higher number these days.
 
spottishwood said:
I remember some posters repeatedly ask her about that. :D
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And I have repeatedly replied to posters who have only partially quoted Rafa (i.e. attempted to take Rafa's words out of context).

Rafa said:

"I'm sorry for them [Russian tennis players]. I wish it was not this way, but at the end of the day we know that this is what we have [things are what they are].

"At the end of the day, what happens in our game doesn't have any importance when we can see so many people dying and suffering and seeing the bad situation they are having in Ukraine."

www.essentiallysports.com

‘Many People Dying and Suffering’ - Rafael Nadal Strongly Argues That Wimbledon’s Recent Ban Is Irrelevant in Comparison to Ukraine-Russia Crisis

At the press conference at the Madrid Open, Rafael Nadal talked about Wimbledon’s ban on Russian players, as he felt it’s unfair to them.
www.essentiallysports.com

Post # 69:
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/ind...grown-up-response.725297/page-2#post-16355034
 
TheNachoMan said:
They were already celebrating like Nadal had won the title when Novak got deported. Which turned out to be correct.
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You've got to be kidding. As a Rafa fan, thinking Rafa would win AO this year was inconceivable to me. But he did - a total surprise. While I celebrated when he did, before that, I certainly wasn't. I was glad however that he was playing in Australia.That Novak was deported was entirely his free choice. Period.
 
TheNachoMan said:
They were already celebrating like Nadal had won the title when Novak got deported. Which turned out to be correct.
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What people approved of, was Australia deporting a guy who somehow 'contracted' covid weeks AFTER having begun his application and after having had 2 letters written to him and Tennis Australia from the Australian federal authorities specifically stating his attempt at an exemption was not valid

It has nothing to do with who did or didn't eventually win the AO.
 
TheNachoMan said:
She also backpedaled her position when it turned out Nadal was against Russians being banned at Wimbledon. lol
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You are wrong. Rafa said: "I'm sorry for them [Russian tennis players]. I wish it was not this way, but at the end of the day we know that this is what we have [things are what they are]." See more in my previous post.
 
weakera said:
There were plenty of Nadal fans here last summer. Your anecdotal and opportunistic take is rejected.
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I do have posters here who know me from other forums. Therefore, your rejection has no ground but I don’t want to continue with this because I know Nad fans love to have the last words.
 
octobrina10 said:
Playing on grass also causes more pain to his knees than playing on other surfaces. The ball bounces lower on grass and forces a player to bend his legs more, placing pressure on the player's knees. Besides, grass surfaces are unstable under feet and that means extra pressure on his vulnerable knees.
Rafa (at his press conference in Cincinnati on 14 August 2013): "...I felt more trouble on grass because the movements are less stable and I need to play lower than on the rest of the surfaces."
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part of that problem has been due to the orthotics correction made on his feet, as I understand.
not just knees, hip joints and even lower back. That was what Toni said, as I recall.
if you make angular corrections on your ankle, that affects upper joints.
now that he microwaved one of the 3 main nerves on his foot, I was guessing he could get away with less aggressive orthotics corrections on his foot.
and perhaps less pressure on his upper joints such as knees??
 
ewiewp said:
part of that problem has been due to the orthotics correction made on his feet, as I understand.
not just knees, hip joints and even lower back. That was what Toni said, as I recall.
if you make angular corrections on your ankle, that affects upper joints.
now that he microwaved one of the 3 main nerves on his foot, I was guessing he could get away with less aggressive orthotics corrections on his foot.
and perhaps less pressure on his upper joints such as knees??
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That makes sense. If you carry an injury/disability/anomaly physically your body will try and compensate by putting extra unsustainable strain on other areas, and you subsequently develop issues elsewhere.
If permanently numbing a problem area means your skeletal and muscular system doesn’t have to take the strain, theoretically you shouldn’t develop those problems.
 
ewiewp said:
part of that problem has been due to the orthotics correction made on his feet, as I understand.
not just knees, hip joints and even lower back. That was what Toni said, as I recall.
if you make angular corrections on your ankle, that affects upper joints.
now that he microwaved one of the 3 main nerves on his foot, I was guessing he could get away with less aggressive orthotics corrections on his foot.
and perhaps less pressure on his upper joints such as knees??
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Rafa himself says in his autobiography (titled Rafa: My Story, published in 2011) that wearing insoles started to affect his muscles in other areas of the body: "The tarsal scaphoid specialist in Madrid, whose diagnosis had initially been like a shot to the head, had turned out to be my salvation. After a lot of experimenting, we got the soles of the shoe right, or right enough to be getting along with. It wasn't the ideal solution for my body as a whole (we knew there would be consequences), but it did ease the problem of the scaphoid bone. The main thrust of the body's weight now fell on the other bones of my foot, relieving the pressure on the damaged one. Nike devised a shoe for me that was wider and higher than the one I used before. I needed a bigger shoe because the sole was now much thicker, more elevated, particularly in the area that now acted as a cushion for the scaphoid bone. Adapting to the new sole at first was uncomfortable, because by altering the region of the foot where the weight naturally falls, the shoe impaired my balance. And then, as the specialist had predicted, I started suffering muscle strains where I'd never had any problems before, in the back and thighs. We did the best we could, but as I began training with the new shoes, new difficulties would keep cropping up, obliging us to keep on making tiny but critical changes to the soles. Years later, we still do. It's a work in progress. We still haven't got it absolutely right. Maybe there is no absolutely right solution. The fact is that years have passed since then, and the tarsal scaphoid bone still hurts me, obliging me at times to cut short training."
 
Topspin_80 said:
2008 Wimbledon final, Nadal won, didn't he??

An excuse for winning?

Desperation is driving some folks to insanity.
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Footdal fans think overexaggeration of injuries that never actually happened will be equal to 2 slams per win.

Who denied his win..was he injured as claimed by his uncle ?? BS drama as usual
 
intrepidish said:
You're claiming that it was an excuse...for winning?

That's absurd on its face. And among other things the 2008 numbing was discussed many years ago. People didn't seem to care as Nadal hadn't surpassed Federer in slam totals at the time though.

Of course anyone who has been following tennis for decades should also recall Graf and Sampras not being able to walk and getting injections to win Wimbledon which no one cared about other than to highlight what fighters they were.
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Sampras and graf never overexaggerated their injuries by recalling an incident 14 years ago that they were injured. A guy with numb foot can't even move freely forget about playing 5 hrs tennis at his athletic best.
 
T007 said:
Sampras and graf never overexaggerated their injuries by recalling an incident 14 years ago that they were injured. A guy with numb foot can't even move freely forget about playing 5 hrs tennis at his athletic best.
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Hmm. Sampras and Graf retired in 2003 and 1999, respectively, but you still talk about their injuries. :eek: Secondly, if they hadn't talked about their injuries, you wouldn't have known they were injured.
 
octobrina10 said:
Hmm. Sampras and Graf retired in 2003 and 1999, respectively, but you still talk about their injuries. :eek: Secondly, if they hadn't talked about their injuries, you wouldn't have known they were injured.
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Show me an example...wether sampras said 10 years after his retirement that i was injured in so and so match but still won or his coach made such claims.

It is just an attempt from the Nadal camp to create fake narrative that Nadal won despite his injury in the greatest match of all time. Any sane mind who has watched the whole match would say that "A person with sleepy foot can't display his atheltic best tennis for 5 hours". Nadal didn't took any MTO or called his trainer.
 
T007 said:
Show me an example...wether sampras said 10 years after his retirement that i was injured in so and so match but still won or his coach made such claims.

It is just an attempt from the Nadal camp to create fake narrative that Nadal won despite his injury in the greatest match of all time. Any sane mind who has watched the whole match would say that "A person with sleepy foot can't display his atheltic best tennis for 5 hours". Nadal didn't took any MTO or called his trainer.
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Published on 9 July 2020 - 17 years after Sampras' retirement:

 
octobrina10 said:
Published on 9 July 2020 - 17 years after Sampras' retirement:

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Lol He had some tendon problems. And it was published on the day when he won that final in NewYork times.
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It wasn't like there was no injury woes expressed by him before or after that final... but 20 years later suddenly he claimed an injury that hampered his chances but he still won.

Nadal neither looked injured nor physically hampered. If anyone who looked slow and out of sorts was Federer in the first two sets. But Federer never made any claims that he had Mononucleosis earlier that year which impacted his performance & That is what Gentlemens do.
 
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T007 said:
Show me an example...wether sampras said 10 years after his retirement that i was injured in so and so match but still won or his coach made such claims.

It is just an attempt from the Nadal camp to create fake narrative that Nadal won despite his injury in the greatest match of all time. Any sane mind who has watched the whole match would say that "A person with sleepy foot can't display his atheltic best tennis for 5 hours". Nadal didn't took any MTO or called his trainer.
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You don't seem to know that it is not news. What Toni said was known for more than 10 years.
 
Bumbaliceps said:
It is in his book, the one who got out in 2011 or 2012. He said he wasn't hindered at all, that he was free to play 100%.
So why accusing him of creating a narrative that he won despite injuries ?
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Who is accusing him...but iam accusing his Uncle toni.
 
T007 said:
Who is accusing him...but iam accusing his Uncle toni.
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You are accusing him of making up something that was never discussed, something that wasn't public... Right ?
But I told you that it was in the book that got out more than 10 years ago. so maybe there is something wrong with your statement?

Or maybe I am the one making up stuff ?

I repeat, Nadal said he wasnt hindered, that he could play 100%... Have you seen Toni say the opposite ?
 
Bumbaliceps said:
You are accusing him of making up something that was never discussed, something that wasn't public... Right ?
But I told you that it was in the book that got out more than 10 years ago. so maybe there is something wrong with your statement?

Or maybe I am the one making up stuff ?

I repeat, Nadal said he wasnt hindered, that he could play 100%... Have you seen Toni say the opposite ?
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If toni didn't anything opposite then what the thread is all about. Toni did made contradictory statements that Nadal had a numb foot which means he couldn't move it properly like it happened in the 4th set of 2021 RG SFs
 
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