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L 'Équipe describes the degree of the Central as "incongruous"

Experts dethrone kings for generations, the Parisian sans culottes (literally 'without breeches') that made the track Chatrier on Sunday, a Plaza of the Revolution to overthrow the king of Roland Garros, was yesterday hard countercoups: when the king, Rafa Nadal, and was swimming in the pool of his home in Manacor, his uncle and coach, Toni Nadal, took the microphone from La Ventana, in the SER, to defend his nephew. Thus: "The Parisian public is pretty stupid. The French resent the success of a Spanish () based on the happiness of another defeat I feel bad philosophy () Rafa played quite badly and Söderling was better. Hopefully we can wipe the slate clean and new account. "

But he also threw in arms against their fellow citizens on anything suspicious L'Equipe: "The earth has trembled in the west of Paris. Nadal, winner of his last 32 sets in Roland Garros () falls eliminated Söderling, a specialist in indoor tournaments he played his first round of Grand Slam, and had not been able to take over a Spanish game a month ago in Rome. It has been quite incongruous to hear the audience shouting at the Central lung Swedish name of the injured, one player less for their beloved companions. Viewers wanted to see any cost falling on the Spanish, which was only applauded After the defeat () Nadal, with great champion, has not taken into account and they welcomed his departure from the runway. "A Spanish and writes this

Among the surprise and shock, another shock for Federer in a stunned Chatrier, Tommy Haas pulled out yesterday to Roger first two sets. With 4-3 for Haas in the third, followed Federer won nine games (6-7, 5-7, 6-4, 6-0 and 6-2) and flew to the rooms in five sets. But Federer and Nadal are still tied, "says The New York Times. So it must be the All England Club, Wimbledon. And not in Paris sans culottes of red soil.

The path of Rafa Nadal at the top of the tennis world was not a smooth, quite the contrary, it was hard and difficult, since its inception as a professional, has by the añso 2002 until today.

That was the year that has reached the top, but had not been Federer would have secured long ago.

Graphic of evolution in ATP rankings, Nadal, by courtesy of AS

The ATP sees in Roger Federer their individual Muhammad Ali. And it has in Rafa Nadal to his George Foreman or Joe Frazier. The rivalry is served, elevates the level of that sport until unimaginable levels and at the present time it is reaching unusual levels of attention. It is not easy to emphasize in the United States.

But Swiss and the Spanish, both great values of the sport of the racket, are doing it and win the first positions as far as `in the last great favoritism of the season. Two different characters, two different personalities, opposite aspects and ?it are young and I am the one that has experience, so the sense of expectancy is enormous?, asserts Federer.

They have been taking distributing the titles of Grand Slam for two years - from the Open of Australia 2005 that won Marat Safin has been no another two champion who not outside one of them and the thing does not seem that it is going to undergo great alterations. Federer is the great favorite of this U.S. Open, the man who could become the first tennis player who gains four consecutive titles in great American of the Era Open.

Roger, who tomorrow initiates his week consecutive number 187 to the front of the world-wide classification, is enchanted with that paper of main favorite. Tuesday arrived the past at New York knowing that ?there is nothing of what worrying?. After the defeat in Montreal, the title in Cincinnati arrived. And the Helvetian considers that ?sometimes it is good for losing. You begin again. As she happened after Montreal, people spoke, all thought? Soon the victory arrived and everything returned to be perfect?.

But also it is conscious that, after him, man has that tomorrow will take 109 weeks persecuting him in ranking and that in this 2007 is trying, if it is that that is possible, to overthrow to him.

For it, Nadal will have to take the rate to the match because, as Federer says, ?New York is a madness. It is the nocturnal session, the humidity, the heat, the city, the wind. If desire the U.S. Open, you can gain any match?. The last Grand Slam resists to that they take the pulse him. Pero Rafa has decided that perhaps the hour has arrived already. It landed in the Great Apple the past Sunday and is been exercising since then with a view to its debut in front of the Alun Australian Jones, guest of the organization.

Rafa already has disputed five end of Grand Slam in 14 great ones disputed. Only John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors were faster than he. And of them, two in Wimbledon, on grass, the surface to which worse its game adapts. But the runway of Flushing Meadows is deceptive. Grand Slams is considered by many like the four the fastest surface of.

Not even that circumstance avoids that Federer, at the time of choosing a possible candidate to replace, does not show nor a single spying to him of doubt. ?It would choose Rafael Nadal. Yes, I choose to him. If it had to bet my house by a champion who not outside I, yes, would bet it by Rafa?, espeta. Although in his internal law Roger hopes to be he it person who in afternoon of next the 9 of September is raising the trophy of the U.S. Open in the Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Rafa Nadal has changed the beaten Earth of the tennis court, by the smooth sand of the beach. After taking control of the sixth title of the season - the Stuttgart- glass the tennis player has been let see by the Majorcan coasts shining palmito and making Gallic of an almost skillful skill with the ball.

The bronzed body of ídolo Majorcan - accentuated by the red color of a bathing suit that, by the way, left it everything for the imagination has monopolized all the glances in the beach that the tennis player has chosen to spend the day and, of step, to play an unexpected soccer match next to friends. Although enough far from handling the ball since Miguel made his uncle - Nadal- Angel the exercise, without a doubt, it has served to him to relax and to forget the tension of the tennis court.

And it is more that the sea always has been the refuge where Nadal now recharges energies and, than ever, our champion, that underwent some annoyances during the last match, must recompose to confront his next challenge: to take control of the title of the U.S. Open 2007.