Wywiad po meczu III r.

Q. How have you pulled up after that long match?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, the most important thing is I won, so I happy for that. I am less happy about my game, what I was practicing.

But, yeah, you know, everybody have not very good days. I think I played much better the fourth set than the rest of the sets. The second sets, few moments I played well, too. But the first set and the third, I played bad.

Yeah, I need to play a little bit more aggressive for next matches.

Q. Anything in particular you think you need to work on?

RAFAEL NADAL: Just play a little bit more aggressive, play a little bit longer with the forehand and backhand, and that's it, yeah. Play more aggressive and longer; everything is easier like that.

Q. He seemed to attack your serve, especially your second serve. Are you worried about that?

RAFAEL NADAL: No. I was serving 145, 150 lot of times. So is not bad second serve. A lot of players, when play against the top players, play more aggressive than usual. So is nothing to do about that, no?

The balls, if they are with confidence, the ball goes in, like few moments today for Phillipp, is difficult to stop. Is difficult at the same time do this thing all the match.

Q. How was your confidence tonight?

RAFAEL NADAL: I think I started slow. I started little bit slower than usual. Later I save lot of breakpoints in the first set. First set I didn't feel playing really well. But after that I played much better the second. And in the third I started terrible, no?

I had big chance with Love‑40 to break back. If I did, yeah, that was very important game in the third, no? And in the fourth, he played well, and I think I played much better.

Q. Does that match help you going into the rest of the tournament, that you improved?

RAFAEL NADAL: I hope so. You never know, no? You never know. I hope so.

I am ready to play well, but I have to wait.

Q. What about your next opponent, Karlovic? How do you approach that match?

RAFAEL NADAL: Always a really difficult opponent, no, because the match is decides in a few points. So the thing is very be concentrate with my serve all the time and try to convert the small opportunities that I can have on the return. That's it.

Q. Did the heat affect you at all? Do you prefer playing earlier?

RAFAEL NADAL: Doesn't matter for me. I happy with everything.

Q. Do you spend time tomorrow analyzing this match or do you immediately look at the next one? What do you take from it as you move on?

RAFAEL NADAL: No, analyze this match today. Tomorrow is practice and try to practice well to get good confidence for the next match, no? I talk with my coach already in the locker room. Maybe we will talk a little bit more later. But that's it. Tomorrow is another day.

Q. What level do you think you need to get to feel confident? Do you need to beat a top-10 player again?

RAFAEL NADAL: Top-10 player again? What do you say?

Q. What do you need to accomplish to get your confidence? What kind of level of player do you have to beat before you are fully confident again?

RAFAEL NADAL: I am confident. The season is long anyway. If I lost here next round, I gonna have a chances to play well during all the season. So Australian Open is very important tournament, but is not the end of the world.

You have a lot of time to get your full confidence, to play well. So I am there all the weeks fighting, try my best. When you are there all the time, finally you do.

Q. You played some amazing shots tonight. The volley after the pickup, some running passing shots. Do you surprise yourself sometimes with your shots?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, yes, no? Few ones, no? The forehands, surely I surprise. But I like this shot, running with the passing shot with my forehand. But, yes, the point that give me the second set, outside the net, yes, was one of the best forehands in my life probably.

Q. Who chose your orange shirt?

RAFAEL NADAL: Myself and Nike.

Q. Do people like it? Have you had good feedback about it?

RAFAEL NADAL: You can ask the people.

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Desperatka Ten Rafa to jednak ma powodzenie , no praktycznie co szlem ktoś Go kocha W sumie szkoda troche że ta sympetyczna psychofanka nie ulokowała uczuć w innym grajku . Jestem pewny że taki Fernando Gonzalez kontynuowałby przedstawienie

Konferencja po meczu 4r AO10:

An interview with:
RAFAEL NADAL

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. Are you playing as well as you would like to at this stage, with a view to playing the final? Is your form to your liking?

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, sure. I started the season well. You know, today the match is probably one of the most difficult matches to play well because is without rhythm all the time.

So the victory is the only thing in this kind of match, no? I did. I think I returned aggressive. When I had a chance to touch the ball, I did well. So I happy for that.

Q. How difficult is it to imagine where the serve is coming? You study the serve of an opponent before or you guess.

RAFAEL NADAL: No, no. You try to see where he put the ball, where he tosses the ball. But you know a lot of times he change, so... I thought was there, and was there (indicating the other side).

So just, you know, is like a penalty. You go to one place.

Q. You always play every point very strong. Against that kind of player, is it more important, every point is more important, than any other player?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, sure, no, because first thing, if you lose one time your serve, probably you lose the set. And second thing, when you return, you have to be focused, hundred percent focused all the time, because you have to wait your chance. If he had some mistake with the first serve, try to be there all the time. Or if you can return well a few first serves is the only chance to have the break, no?

If you are not focused all the time, is impossible.

Q. How were you feeling at the start of the third set?

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, I was a little bit unlucky in the end of the second set, in that game, with two nets and one return, strange return. Anyway, I had mistakes in that game.

Later, he was playing a little bit better, no? But I was there and just wait my chance, be focused on my serve, try to not have more mistakes in my serve, and wait the chance on the return. I think I was returning really well when I had the chance to touch the ball.

Q. Andy was pretty impressive tonight. Do you feel like this is a really big test for him, where he can play you when it really matters instead of in smaller tournaments? Is this a big moment whether he can stand up or not?

RAFAEL NADAL: For him?

Q. Yes.

RAFAEL NADAL: I don't think Andy have to show nothing to nobody, no? He have enough results to be confident of win a Grand Slam or win everything. No, for me is not a test for him, no? He can win, he can lose. But, anyway, he gonna have a lot of chances to win a Grand Slam, and he gonna do for sure.

Q. Is it a more difficult test for you than you would like at this stage of the tournament?

RAFAEL NADAL: No. That's the draw, no? No, I happy. The important thing, I am in quarterfinals, losing only two sets. I think I am okay. And I have to play better next match if I really want to have chances to win. That's what I gonna try. Is one of the more difficult players to play against, Andy. I have to play my best tennis.

Q. What do you think of your record against top‑10 players over the last eight months?

RAFAEL NADAL: Let me know what do you think?

Q. You tell us.

RAFAEL NADAL: The numbers are the numbers. So probably is not the best moment in my career against the top 10, no? But two weeks ago I was one point away, no?

Q. Is it an issue with confidence at all?

RAFAEL NADAL: You know, you have some up and downs in your career. And probably the last eight months or six months, I had more problem than usual with my knees, later with the abdominal. And I don't know what's gonna happen after tomorrow.

But, you know, I am here to fight. Nobody can ask me more when I try all my best all the time, no? So, you know, if I lose another time in two days, I gonna try in next tournament. If not, next. And if not, next.

So the important thing is don't have loses against the players that you have to win. So I did very well that last eight months, too. I didn't had bad loses outside of top‑10 players. So when you are there all the time, finally you win.

Q. Which would you prefer, for you to win the Australian Open or for Spain to win the World Cup?

RAFAEL NADAL: What kind of question is that? Is no chance to answer this question, no?

I think, yeah, first of all, is yourself, so after is your team. And the Spanish team for sure is very important for me. But I think is one of the more strange questions I answered in my life.

Q. You spoke about your knees giving you trouble. How are you physically? Are you fine for right now at this stage?

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, I'm perfect, yeah.

Q. You talked about Murray being a very difficult opponent. What is the hardest part about playing Andy Murray?

RAFAEL NADAL: First thing is he is very good. Yeah, he's one of the most talentest players on tour. He can play offensive, he can play defensive. He can do a lot of things during the same match. So that's a most important thing.

Later, he's a big player and he's a winner. Yeah, is important. Is very important player.

http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/new … 91765.html

Nadal: "On zagrał niewiarygodny mecz"

Drugi ćwierćfinał Australian Open panów zakończył się w dość nieprzyjemnych okolicznościach. Rafael Nadal poddał mecz z powodu kontuzji prawego kolana przy stanie 3:6,6:7(2),0:3 dla Murray'a.

Nocny pojedynek Murray'a z Nadalem był niesamowity, tenisiści grali bardzo efektownie. Publiczność na Rod Laver Arena mogła się cieszyć niesamowitym tenisiem przez dwie i pół godziny.


Wspaniałe widowisko zepsuła kontuzja Rafael Nadala, która dręczyła go przez cały 2009 rok. Nadal powiedział, że nie chciał grać z kontuzją, co było błędem w tamtym roku.


"Stwierdziłem, że nie mogę grać z kontuzją, jak w tamtym roku. Wtedy ból się nasilał i było jeszcze gorzej" powiedział Nadal. "Przepraszam Andy". - dodał Hiszpan kierując słowa do Murray'a.


Przez cały mecz Murray grał bardzo dobrze. Cały turniej okazuje się być dla Brytyjczyka bardzo dobry, widać, że jest bardzo dobrze dysponowany.


Następnym przeciwnikiem Murray'a będzie Marin Cilić, który pokonał Roddicka.


"Z mojej strony mogę powiedzieć tyle: grałem naprawdę dobrze i zasługuję na ten półfinał "powiedział Murray.


Nadal zgodził się, opisując poziom Szkota jako "niewiarygodny".


"Andy grał naprawdę dobrze", powiedział Hiszpan, obrońca tytułu Australian Open.


W trzecim secie Nadal pomimo medycznej pomocy, nie zdołał dokończyć meczu i poddał spotkanie przy stanie 3-0 dla Murraya.


Ponieważ Nadal nie obroni punktów sprzed roku, kiedy to triumfował w tej imprezie, numer 3 rankingu ATP, Novak Djokovic najprawdopodobniej awansuje na drugie miejsce. Hiszpan może także spaść jeszcze niżej, wszystko zależy jak spisze się Andy Murray w pozostałych swoich meczach.


W skrócie

- Murray zaserwował 13 asów, Nadal jeden.

- Murray zdobył 77 procent punktów, po pierwszym serwisie.

- Nadal wykorzystał tylko dwie szansy na przełamanie Murraya, a miał ich w meczu aż 12.

- Murray zdobył 79 procent punktów przy siatce.

http://www.tenis.sport24.pl/news/show/1 … owity-mecz

Rafael Nadal keeps his dignity despite worrying exit from Australian Open

He welcomed us at the start of his press conference and thanked us at the end of it. Rafael Nadal may have surrendered on the court - something he simply will never get his head around having to do - but he did not surrender his dignity off it.

It is because the defending champion and world No 2 is so universally respected that his decision to pull up in the third set of the Australian Open quarter-final against Andy Murray with an injury was greeted with such poignancy.

How much Nadal is hurting, only he knows but the images of him on the big screens on Rod Laver Arena as he diagnosed the hurt before the trainer reached him, spoke more than even he could. This could be serious.

Nadal has not been right for a while now and how ironic that this should happen to him when he was playing his best tennis since last year’s epic five-set final victory over Roger Federer.

So, was this a recurrence of an old injury, or the onset of a new one? “[There] is not a lot of history because [the injury] was during the match,” Nadal said. “It happened at the end of the second set in one drop. And I felt a similar thing to what I had last year. After that I can’t bend down. When I have the chance to play, I never retire. I go to the limit today, but did not cross it.

“Andy played really well. I think my level was very high today, too. I had big chances to win both sets. And against probably the player who is playing the best right now, I was very close. I go out from this tournament very happy about my level because the perspective is much better right now than two or three months ago when I lost all three matches in London [in the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals]. Now I am playing another time at my best level. Just congratulate him [Murray] because he’s doing really well, and he has a big chance to win this tournament.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ … 003190.ece

Knee check to decide Rafael Nadal's injury action

A MEDICAL examination in Barcelona this week will reveal the extent of Rafael Nadal's right knee injury.

The Spanish world No. 2 is confident he will be cleared of serious damage.

Nadal, 23, said he was unconcerned over his long-term future.

"No, I think going to be OK," he said after retiring mid-match against Scot Andy Murray in the Australian Open quarter-finals on Tuesday night.

"I didn't have lot of problems for the last six months. And today is the first time, no?

"I felt something when I think is a bad movement. But is not, you know, because the knee is tired or has been a bad movement or gesture."

Nadal bristled at suggestions he would have to further modify his training and playing style.

"Don't start, guys, with these questions right now," he said.

"I think is not the right moment. I think I changed the style to play. If you see my matches 2005 or 2004, 2006, I run a lot compared to now, no?

"So today I played against one of the best players of the world, and I think I wasn't run(ning) more than him.

"So I played aggressive. I played having the control of the point, a lot of the time with the forehand and the backhand, too, returning aggressive.

"If you see my matches three years ago, that didn't happen.

"Remember, we are playing on hardcourts.

"Probably in this surface I have to play my best tennis, like today, if I really want to have chances to win.

"If not, then the opponents, there are really good players, and Andy's unbelievable. He's playing really well.

"I think against probably the player who is playing better right now, I was very close."

Nadal's ranking will suffer significantly because of his failure to defend the Open title.

But the Spaniard said he was satisfied over the quality of his form.

"I go out from this tournament very happy about my level because the perspective is much better right now than two or three months ago," Nadal said.

"When I lost in the Masters Cup (ATP World Tour finals in London) all the matches, I didn't see one way to play again my tennis.

"Now I am playing another time at my best level.

"I think (it) was (an) amazing match first two sets (against Murray).

"Both, I think, we played really well. And I have the chances."

Nadal has not won a title since Rome in May.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/tenni … 5824136050

Rafael Nadal nie zagra przez co najmniej miesiąc.

Rafa nie zagra w Rotterdamie, wstępna diagnoza mówi o miesiącu przerwy i niema pewnym jest brak Hiszpana także w meczach 1 rundy Pucharu Davisa, na początku marca. Występy w Indian Wells i Miami stoją natomiast pod znakiem zapytania. - podaje dziennik "Marca".

Źródło: http://www.marca.com/2010/01/28/tenis/1264681216.html

Moim zdaniem powinien nie wracać już na hard wiosną. Przy takim stylu gry i takich problemach ze ścięgnami kolan to droga do karierowego samobójstwa. Celem nr1 Nadala jest chyba odzyskanie RG i w mojej opinii powinien solidnie wypocząć, wyleczyć uraz i przygotowywać się do odzyskania korony na cegle.

Odpuszczenie IW i Miami w przypadku Rafy to jedyna słuszna decyzja.Trzeba mieć na uwadze to ,że hard jest nawierzchnią,po której poruszanie się obciąża kolana i zamiast lepiej to w przypadku Rafy byłoby gorzej.W tej kwestii zgadzam się z Dunem.

Z drugiej strony jest kwestia utraty dużej ilości (ponad 1000) punktów za IW i Miami,ale punkty te mógłby nadrobić dobrym wynikiem na Wimblu i zwycięstwem w RG,rankingiem przecież zdrowia nie podtrzyma.

DUN I LOVE napisał:

Sytuacja przeze mnie przedstawiona może okazać się zbyt...optymistyczna.

Rafael Nadal może nie zagrać podczas RG.Zdaniem lekarzy słynny Hiszpan może pauzować od 3 do nawet 6 miesięcy.

  Injury could dash Rafa's dreams of more French Open glory

RAFAEL NADAL could miss at least the French Open because of the recurring knee tendinitis that caused his retirement from the quarter-final against Andy Murray.

Melbourne doctor Peter Brukner described chronic tendinitis as one of the most difficult sports injuries to treat. He expected the four-time French Open champion to be sidelined for up to six months, which would rule him out of Roland Garros, starting on May 24.

The second seed's Australian Open title defence ended three games into the third set of his match against Murray, his movement compromised after a dash to chase down a drop shot late in the second set. Nadal has a long history of knee problems, having been sidelined for nine weeks in last year. The injury compromised his French Open campaign and kept the then world No.1 out of Wimbledon last year.

''Tendinitis can be career-threatening, certainly,'' Brukner said. ''It might be that this is just a minor flare-up and it settles down reasonably quickly, but the worry is that he might need an extended period out of the game, given that the nine weeks didn't really seem to do the trick. He might need three to six months out of the game.

''Tendinitis can take a long time to treat, and that's obviously something that these guys don't tend to have, and the fact that it hasn't responded is a concern. It's actually almost better to break a bone. The tendon becomes degenerative, and you have to start the healing process again because they don't heal by themselves. And you have to hope that they can deal with the incredible loads that the Nadals of this world place on them; tendons aren't designed for these sorts of loads.''

Nadal's spokesman, Benito Perez Barbadillo, said the Spaniard had woken to continuing knee pain yesterday and would have medical tests on his return to Spain.

Nadal said post-match that he had felt ''a similar thing to what I had last year'', after sprinting to the net.

Yet Nadal said he remained optimistic the worst of his knee issues were behind him. ''I worked a lot. I didn't have lot of problems for the last six months,'' he said. ''And today is the first time, no? I felt something when I think is a bad movement. But is not, you know, because the knee is tired or has been a bad movement or gesture. No, I think going to be OK.''

Since his Australian Open triumph a year ago, Nadal has not competed at a grand slam tournament injury-free, but he took umbrage at suggestions that he would need to modify his demanding style of play.

''Don't start, guys, with these questions right now,'' he said. ''I think is not the right moment. I think I changed the style to play. If you see my matches 2005 or 2004, 2006, I run a lot compared to now, no?''

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/inju … -mz06.html

Nadal ma kontuzję. Czeka go przerwa

Rafael Nadal ma lekkie naderwanie ścięgien w prawym kolanie i nie będzie mógł trenować przez dwa tygodnie. Hiszpan nie wystąpi w turnieju w Rotterdamie, który odbędzie się w przyszłym miesiącu.

Nadal poddał wtorkowe spotkanie z Andy Murray’em w ćwierćfinale Australian Open.

23-letni Hiszpan w piątek przeszedł dokładne badania w Barcelonie. Teraz Rafael będzie przechodził rehabilitację, a do treningów ma wrócić za dwa tygodnie. Nie wystąpi w turnieju w Rotterdamie, który rozpoczyna się 8 lutego.

Tak jak powiedziałem po meczu w Melbourne, wiedziałem, że uraz nie jest taki sam jak ten, który odniosłem w zeszłym roku - powiedział Nadal. - Czuję się ogólnie dobrze, ale myślę tylko o tym jak długo potrwa moja rehabilitacja. Jestem rozczarowany, że nie wystąpię w Rotterdamie. To jest turniej, który chciałem wygrać, bo rok temu byłem tego bliski. Nie martwię się o mój ranking. Chcę po prostu czuć się jak najlepiej - dodawał hiszpański tenisista.

Nadal przez problemy z kolanami pauzował w poprzednim sezonie prawie dwa miesiące.

http://www.eurosport.pl/tenis/australia … tory.shtml

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