Top Ten Things You Should Know about Rafael Nadal

Wilander Fan said:
I thought this was a list of little known trivia about Nadal like:

1. Naturally a right handed player but was encouraged to switch to lefty by his coach after he noticed his left fingers were slightly longer than his right hand due to a bowling accident.

2. As a junior, he was given the nickname "nails" by his English peers, as in "Nails Nadal" because of his tough playing style. He dropped it before turning pro because Spanish press mistranslated and started referring to him as the "una del pie".

3. Favorite color is orange, followed by blue.

4. Is actually from an island off the coast of Spain called Majorca, a region well known for producing world class bowlers. In addition to Spanish, Nadal speaks fluent Majorcan and Minorcan. "Nadal" in Majorcan translates roughly into "peanut-butter".

5. In addition to tennis, Nadal was a highly regarded bowler with ambitions of turning pro until injuring his right ring finger in an amateur tournament. Rumors still exist that his finger is a prosthetic.

6. Flies economy class unless he has enough miles to upgrade.

7. Appears to be playing with an aero pro drive GT cortex but, according to stringers, the racket is actually a paint job of a customized rossignol f200.

8. Nadal has many unusual rituals during matches such as arranging water bottles in rows which likely originates from his early bowling training in the slums of Majorca where players were required to reset their pins by hand due to the poor facilities.
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Brilliant.

At first I :confused:'d then I :shock:'ed and then I :D 'ed !!!
 
Subventricular Zone said:
Top Ten Things You Should Know about Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal (ESP) according to (some) TW posters:

1. A talentless pusher/grinder/moonballer who will never win…
a. outside RG
b. Wimbledon
c. a hard court slam
d. the US Open
e. another slam

2. Who should never have won/should not have been good enough/was extremely lucky to win Wimbledon, AO, USO and does not deserve Career Grand Slam

3. Whose knees are so banged up he is sure to play wheelchair tennis in the next few years but when he is injured he is faking

4. Who only wins because
a. Of brute force
b. He is doping
c. The surfaces have slowed down
d. Uncle Toni shouts/gestures/winks game plans on how to beat opponents from the stands
e. He makes the opponents wait during the coin toss
f. He only waits for his opponents’ mistakes
g. Uncle Toni hypnotizes his opponents to make mistakes
h. His mental strength causes opponents to make mistakes
i. He gives opponents the “evil look”
j. He bores his opponents to death
k. His opponents choke
l. He gets cupcake draws

5. Who has
a. A worthless serve
b. A Crappy backhand
c. An ugly forehand that does nothing but go crosscourt
d. Nil volleying skills
e. A barbaric style of play that is destroying the elegant/balletic/aesthetic “sport” that is tennis

6. Who has a winning record against the Top Ten because
a. He’s a lefty
b. He unfairly exploits Player X’s backhand (which makes him a coward)
c. Player X does not serve well/does not convert breakpoints/has a mental block/chokes/plays horrendous whenever he plays him
d. He wins on clay and clay is not a legitimate surface and any clay match on record should be thrown out
e. Also see #4

7. Will achieve ZERO/nada if he were
a. not a lefty
b. not using modern rackets unlike other great players
c. were playing in a different generation
d. were not playing in a weak era

8. Who, if he is magically transported back in time, will get creamed by the greats of the yesteryears if /once
a. they play on any surface
b. he plays using wooden rackets
c. his unconventional technique, which he won’t be able to adapt to existing conditions, will get exposed

9. Who is
a. A Hard court mug
b. A Player who just happens to play his best on a 2nd rate surface that no one cares about
c. Is clueless on surfaces outside the terra bateau

10. Who annoys the **** out of classy, well-mannered tennis fans because he
a. Is such a boring player that he drives/forces poor tennis fans to paint their walls/furniture/cars/dogs and watching paint dry
b. Plays unconventional tennis unlike 99.99% of the ATP tour
c. Bites trophies
d. Does not speak English (what third language?) like the Queen of England
e. Says the same boring things during press conferences
f. Says “no” at the end of each sentence
g. Says “every match is gonna be very difficult, no?”
h. Wears a half-a-million $ watch while other players only wear a Rolex and feed the hungry in Africa

Did I miss anything?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Sure doesn’t sound like this guy:

Rafael Nadal (ESP) according to ATPworldtour.com

1. 9 Majors (4 clay, 2 grass, 2 HC)
2. Career Grand Slam (5 RG, 2 Wimbledon, 1 AO, 1 USO)
3. Simultaneous holder of Grand Slams on Hard, Grass, Clay (2008-2009, 2010)
4. Olympic Gold Medal (Singles)
5. Record 19 ATP masters 1000
6. Record 81-match winning streak on a single surface
7. 45 career titles (82.64% career win-loss record)
8. World Number 1 (94 wks)
9. 15-8 H-H record against the putative GOAT (10-2 clay; 5-6 non-clay)
10. 24 years, 10 months

I’m sure Federer, Roddick, Hewitt, Safin, Djokovic, Murray, etc. also get their own share of criticism and low blows but just reading posts even on the first page, Nadal hands down is the most abused of all.

Obviously, I’m sure not sorry for Nadal coz he’s a very successful millionaire athlete who is already a legend at age 24 and has had one hell of a career one can only dream about. He may not be as articulate as some make him out to be, but he sure does let his racket do the talking. C’est la vie. :lol:
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very impressive list, but you left out:

he sweats like he's been at a weeklong rave all jacked up on redbull and ecstacy

he has threatened to eat federer's children (he actually bites the trophies imagining he's doing just that)

he drinks the tears of "TEH CHOSEN ONE" (fed)

he made stock markets all around the world crash

he's started countless civil wars in africa

he sows pestilence, dischord and strife wherever he goes

he causes cancer in labratory animals

he has made it impossible for martina navratalova to play pro tennis well into her 90s

he shot the sheriff and jr

he leaves the toilet seat up (or down)

he stood on superman's cape

he banned stemcell research

he cut funding to public schools

he made americans fat, dumb and lazy

he kidnapped the lindberg baby

he didn't clap his hands to save tinkerbell

and he unleashed this hell upon an unsuspecting world

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vandre said:
very impressive list, but you left out:

he sweats like he's been at a weeklong rave all jacked up on redbull and ecstacy

he has threatened to eat federer's children (he actually bites the trophies imagining he's doing just that)

he drinks the tears of "TEH CHOSEN ONE" (fed)

he made stock markets all around the world crash

he's started countless civil wars in africa

he sows pestilence, dischord and strife wherever he goes

he causes cancer in labratory animals

he has made it impossible for martina navratalova to play pro tennis well into her 90s

he shot the sheriff and jr

he leaves the toilet seat up (or down)

he stood on superman's cape

he banned stemcell research

he cut funding to public schools

he made americans fat, dumb and lazy

he kidnapped the lindberg baby

he didn't clap his hands to save tinkerbell

and he unleashed this hell upon an unsuspecting world
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Someone actually started a thread about this a while ago, but unfortunately it got deleted.
 
MichaelNadal said:
You're the second person to say that's a good movie and I was planning on going to see something Sunday, so I guess that's the one.
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You won't regret it. I was reading some of Rock's interviews. He was in Moscow promoting the movie, and has a picture taken with John Cena's t-shirt under his boot. It's the most electrfying man's birthday next week on Raw. Should be interesting.

But yeah, watch the movie. Insane sequences!
 
Wilander Fan said:
I thought this was a list of little known trivia about Nadal like:

1. Naturally a right handed player but was encouraged to switch to lefty by his coach after he noticed his left fingers were slightly longer than his right hand due to a bowling accident.

2. As a junior, he was given the nickname "nails" by his English peers, as in "Nails Nadal" because of his tough playing style. He dropped it before turning pro because Spanish press mistranslated and started referring to him as the "una del pie".

3. Favorite color is orange, followed by blue.

4. Is actually from an island off the coast of Spain called Majorca, a region well known for producing world class bowlers. In addition to Spanish, Nadal speaks fluent Majorcan and Minorcan. "Nadal" in Majorcan translates roughly into "peanut-butter".

5. In addition to tennis, Nadal was a highly regarded bowler with ambitions of turning pro until injuring his right ring finger in an amateur tournament. Rumors still exist that his finger is a prosthetic.

6. Flies economy class unless he has enough miles to upgrade.

7. Appears to be playing with an aero pro drive GT cortex but, according to stringers, the racket is actually a paint job of a customized rossignol f200.

8. Nadal has many unusual rituals during matches such as arranging water bottles in rows which likely originates from his early bowling training in the slums of Majorca where players were required to reset their pins by hand due to the poor facilities.
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Good stuff!
 
After Nadal's near brush with death, he has started a public campaign to include a warning label on each and every banana.

Caution you must chew the banana before attempting to swallow, ATP trainer supervision advised.

Nadal never one to fail, has practiced diligently, and can now swallow a ten inch banana whole.
 
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I find it amusing how Agassi said "Nadal is writing checks his body cannot cash." Then Nadal not only equals Agassi's Golden Career Slam, but surpasses his total Slam count too, and maintains a dominance over his rival.
 
Xemi666 said:
Of course not, it's much better to make hate threads and stupid predictions :)
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At some point you Nards have to wise up and just report the threads and have them removed instead of replying to them.

The boards are so much better the extremists have been banned, but it looks like they are attempting comebacks again.
 
sureshs said:
I find it amusing how Agassi said "Nadal is writing checks his body cannot cash." Then Nadal not only equals Agassi's Golden Career Slam, but surpasses his total Slam count too, and maintains a dominance over his rival.
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it might be feasible that Agassi's rival is better than Nadal's rival...(Sampras is better than giant n_ _ _). :)
 
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ksbh said:
ROFL X 1000, TC!

Did you also make a promise to someone? LOL!
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No promises. Just inspired. I thought I had to make that comment after watching Sunny Deol beating the cr@p out of 10 guys while being in a wheelchair.:)
 
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Lsmkenpo said:
After Nadal's near brush with death, he has started a public campaign to include a warning label on each and every banana.

Caution you must chew the banana before attempting to swallow, ATP trainer supervision advised.

Nadal never one to fail, has practiced diligently, and can now swallow a ten inch banana whole.
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Man I'm not gonna touch that .....but you really need to be careful because if someone wanted to make a comeback then lets just say that someone could potentially talk about Federer swallowing a ten Inch banana as well. Do you know what I mean hint hint wink wink???

There is no way in hell I would ever do it......I'm just warning you.
 
namelessone said:
Let's all becoming Barcelona fans, no?

Even worse, he is a Madrid **** while having an uncle who played for Barcelona.

Rebellion perhaps?
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In Mallorca, most of people are supporters of Madrid.Reason is, Mallorca is part of the Catalan Culture ( whose main city is Barcelona), and they rebel against that, thus supporting the worse enemy catalans have: the evil, imperialistic Madrid ( the only " evil umpire" remaining left after the USSR went ashtray)
 
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